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Aerospace & Defense
Market opportunity study and Go to market strategy for a provider of transit services

Client description:

Transit company providing bus and shuttle operations as well as repair and maintenance

Challenge: 

This client needed visibility into the municipal transit and para-transit, university shuttle, airport shuttle, corporate shuttle, and repair and maintenance services across multiple sectors. The challenge was to determine the size of the addressable and convertible markets and what leverage points would drive privatization or outsourcing of services.

Methodologies: 

We conducted 27 qualitative IDIs with thought leaders and competitors and then conducted a telephone quantitative survey with 275 respondents across the multiple target respondent categories.

The result: 

A detailed report that provided sophisticated data analysis through tools such as Brand Battleground, What Customers Want, Stated vs. Derived. The report provided the client with detailed information on a sector-by-sector basis and a complex market sizing model built with primary insights and secondary data from the “top down” and the “bottom up.”

Geographic scope

US

Industries involved 

Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Education, Government, IT & Software, Logistics, Telecommunications, Transportation

Services applied 

Go to Market Strategy, Market Opportunity Study, Voice of the Customer

Methodologies 

Advisory, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research

Practice area

Market Research and Analysis

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