Pioneers in Frontier Markets



These organizations are designed to introduce new, significantly different products into existing markets, or to create an entirely new market around those products.

Market Characteristics

• Acceptable margins
• High demand
• Turbulence
• Complex and ambiguous

Organization Requirements

• Develop new products
• Driven by internal ideas
• Outside market information needed
• Loose management

Business Strategy

• Innovate
• Develop new opportunities and products

Basis of Organization Culture

• Development
• Adaptation
• Interdependence
• Resources

Market Dynamics

• Open
• Developing markets

Organization Structure

• Innovative and free
• Independent behavior
• Function-oriented internal structure
• Both horizontal and vertical

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