OEM Competitor GTM Benchmarking

Jan 18, 2022

Evaluating Competitor GTM Practices for Long-Term Commercial Operating Model

Situation

Our client sought to benchmark its go-to-market(GTM) strategy against competitors and identify best practices to strengthen market positioning and commercial effectiveness.

Objective

The objective was to understand how competitor OEMs and adjacent industrial leaders manage GTM operations to design an agile and resilient commercial operating model across various segments while ensuring “run-the-business” optimization once in market.

Our Work

10EQS conducted in-depth interviews with experts from leading OEM organizations, alongside internal stakeholder interviews. This dual-track approach provided a comprehensive view of the client’s current go-to-market (GTM) practices compared to industry standards, informing the development of a targeted roadmap that clearly identified where change was needed.

Project team:
  • Ex-McKinsey Consultant with a background in transportation & logistics
  • Management Consultant with strongexperience in operating model analysis
  • Associate Consultant conducting secondary research & supporting content synthesis
  • 10EQS Delivery Operations (=PMO) providing quality assurance, process management and expert recruitment
  • 12 industry experts
Industry experts (excerpt):
  • Director, Product Marketing & Insights – Major OEM (US)
  • Vice-President, Materials Management, Logistics, Sales & Operations Planning – Major OEM (US)
  • Manager, Digital Product Marketing – Major OEM (US)
  • Former Director of Operations – Major OEM (US)

Results:

10EQS delivered a tailored go-to-market (GTM) roadmap, benchmarking peer OEMs and identifying an internal shift toward an integrated commercial operating model. The research uncovered fragmented processes and a gap between strategic intent and field execution across organization, cadence, and data, which informed the design of a unified, data-driven execution framework and a “single source of truth” to align the full product-to-market lifecycle.