Defining a Market Driven Company

This isn’t a normal blog post but rather me sharing a paper I recently wrote to describe to a superior what it means to be a ‘Market Driven’ company. It is a long read but I think the information is applicable to many people regardless of title or position in a company.

Defining a Market Driven Company:
Describing Characteristics of Market Driven Companies for Your Superiors

Colgate has declared, “Our mission is to find needs and fill them, not make products and sell them” (Day, 1999, p. 8 ). These words and similar slogans are often used by companies to emphasize and reassure the customers and employees that the company is market driven and customer centric. Unfortunately these slogans are just words and being a “Market Driven” company means and takes much more than regurgitating the CEO’s PR gem of the month. In order for a company to be market driven it is important for the whole company to be on board and actively seeking to remain market driven. The culture of a market driven company is an ongoing effort on several fronts including relationships, exchanges, internal knowledge and competitors.

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