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What are the key services required by customers?
What are the key purchase criteria across different product / services categories?
What are the product / service offerings customers are aware of and currently using?
What is the frequency of usage and use cases across product / service categories?
Are there any product / service offerings not available to customers? If yes, why?
What are some of the unmet needs across existing products / services and reasons thereof?
What are the digital products / services currently being used?

What are the main touch points in customer journey across different product / services categories?
How does the customer journey originate (digitally, own sales team, agent, etc.)?
How is the experience with the customer support across different service providers?
Who are the key influencers for purchase decision for the customer?
What is the level of dependence on the personnel across different touch points?
What are the specific pain points and areas for improvement across touch points?
What is the level of satisfaction on different touch points during the journey?

What is the typical time taken across various steps for the process in reference?
How does the time mapping vary with personnel, time, geography etc.?
What is the typical industry benchmark for times taken across the process steps?
What are the key improvement areas for the client and how can process time be standardised?
What are other industry best practices to boost productivity and optimise time?

Who are the key service providers in the market and what is the position of in reference provider?
How does service provider compare against competition on product offerings?
What is the degree of competitiveness of prices offered by the service provider?
How does the typical timeline and reliability of service compare against competitors and other market players?
How does service providers’ customer service fare with respect to the competitors?
What is the degree of customer satisfaction / NPS for service provider with respect to market?

How likely is the customer to promote respective product / service?
How does the NPS vary across regions and products and how does it compare with key competitors?
What are the key reasons for a customer to be a promoter / detractor?
What are the improvement areas across product / service categories?
What is the level of stickiness across product / service categories?
What are the triggers that would make customers shift to another product / service?
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses that have the highest impact on NPS?

What is the market size of the products / services?
What is the market segmentation across geographies, customer types and demographic factors?
What is the degree of organization in the market and who are the key players?
How is the market expected to grow in the next 5 years?
What are the key drivers of market growth and what is their degree of stability?
What are the key risks to market size and growth and what is their degree of impact?

What is the expected benefit of strategy to the business?
What is its value proposition to the customer?
What is the customer likelihood of product / service adoption?
Who are the key competitors in the similar product / service?
What are the current whitespaces in competitors’ offerings and levers for value creation?
What can be the potential competitive moat for product / service launch?
What is the typical monetization model for the product / service in the market?
What can be the key metrics for evaluation of success of concept launch?
What are other national / global parallels for launch of similar concept?

How has the market potential for the product / service changed in the last 5 years?
What have been the key drivers / inhibitors of growth and what is their likelihood of persistence?
How is the market expected to change in the next 3-5 years?
What could be the key influencers for market growth for the 3-5 years?
What are levers of value creation in the forecast market?
What key trends have been observed in other parallel products / services?

What is the customer’s feedback on product / service?
What is the customer’s perception of brand of service provider?
What are the unmet needs of the customer while using product / service?
What do customers like about the product / service?
What is their opinion on competitor products / services?
What are the factors driving stickiness for the customer usage of select product / service?

Who are the potential partners with capabilities in the required space?
What should be the prioritization order for partners based on their capabilities and potential synergy?
What are the expected benefits in the short and long-term arising from partnership?
What can be the potential roadblocks for partnership?
What will be the cultural impact of partnership on the organization?
What are value creation levers by utilising synergy between partners?

What is the checklist for evaluation of vendor for the required product / service?
Who are the scale players providing the required product / services?
How does cost of products / services provided by shortlisted vendors stack against each other?
How reliable is the supply from the shortlisted vendors?
What is the quality level of products / services provided by the vendors?
How do other customers from the vendor perceive its products / services?
How stable is vendor’s supply chain to ensure uninterrupted supply?
Is vendor’s supply chain compliant to all regulatory requirements?

What is the degree of adoption of digital products / services?
How does degree of digitization compare against competitors / colleagues?
Have the intended benefits of digitization been realised?
What is the turnaround time for deployment of digital solutions?
What is the customer’s perception of digital solutions [for B2C]?
What is the competition’s maturity in digital solutions and where does client stack up against it?
How can effectiveness and efficiency of digital solutions be increased?

What are the key customer segments using reference products / services?
Why do they prefer the reference products / services?
What is their perception of competition providing similar products / services?
What is the customer stickiness for reference products / services?
What drives customer stickiness for reference products / services?
What is the customer sensitivity to prices, discounting, product quality and brand value?
What are the current whitespaces for customers?

What are the key services required by customers?
What are the key purchase criteria across different product / services categories?
What are the product / service offerings customers are aware of and currently using?
What is the frequency of usage and use cases across product / service categories?
Are there any product / service offerings not available to customers? If yes, why?
What are some of the unmet needs across existing products / services and reasons thereof?
What are the digital products / services currently being used?