Industry Analyst Relations

Category creation is key to markets, not quadrants

Many B2B tech businesses think that category creation is the key to getting out of hyper-competitive established markets, dominated by incumbents. Tech solution providers can take analysts with them on the category creation journey, co-creating and derisking new market categories. Jerome Pineau, author of a new book on category creation, recently spoke about this with CCgroup’s head of analyst relations, Duncan Chapple.  

The questions under discussion include: 

  • What is a category? 
  • Would be the most favourable outcome of category creation? 
  • Is a new category generally the white space where you fit between other providers? 
  • Are evaluative reports the way to start thinking about using AR for category creation, in particular finding a way to put your firm in a quadrant-type ranking? 
  • What are the use cases for category creation? 
  • How does economic turbulence impact the interest in category creation? 
  • How can companies start to convince analysts? 
  • Do you have thoughts about like the nature of the internal struggle in vendor organizations when they decide whether or not to take this turn? 
  • Why do we say if you don’t have competitors trying to penetrate your new category then you’re not in a market: you’re in a dreamland   
  • How do providers know when a category has been created? In particular, what does that success look like to a client? 

To hear the discussion, visit CCgroup’s analyst relations playlist

 

 

Written by Duncan Chapple

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