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Segmentation

The Promise and the Challenge

Market segmentation can be a critically important tool for achieving alignment between brands and customers, but bridging the gap between statistical solutions and practical implementation has often been a challenge. Customers are complex and prone to shape-shift as we follow them across moments, channels, and devices, and the techniques for managing that complexity through segmentation are some of the most difficult in the insights arsenal to use well.

Segmentation is not just an act of discovery, it’s a systematic method for organizing a market. Its value as a strategic framework requires knowing when to do it, how to do it, and what success look like.

Delivering on the Promise

NAXION helped launch the discipline with pioneering work that introduced segmentation to some of America’s leading consumer goods companies 50 years ago. We’re still raising the bar with a process that aims to be both systematic and creative, harnessing innovative tools while also taking full account of marketing practicalities for optimal ROI.

We’re adept at both the art and the science of segmentation, and we have an experienced point of view about how to apply it effectively in every sector we serve.

Cutting-Edge Tools, Built-to-Purpose Solutions

  • The expertise to custom-build an approach for each brand, reflecting category, market environment, and business objectives
  • A systematic, success-focused process of stakeholder engagement, reverse-engineered to achieve desired outcomes
  • Frameworks based on consumers, organizations, buying occasions, or journey stages – and the facility to integrate them hierarchically for coherent market views
  • Unparalleled experience in the distinctive challenges of B2B market segmentation – in fact, we wrote the book on that
  • Our segment-optimizing Hypredictive® tool, which supports implementation by allowing users to dial up the accuracy of classification algorithms
  • Use of innovative archetypal segmentation to enhance segment differentiation and bring targets more vividly to life
  • Desktop software that gives client teams the tools to dynamically regroup customers and prospects to alternative frameworks for different enterprise applications
  • Segmentation training and best-practice consulting for client organizations to enhance value through effective goal-getting, skilled framework building, and disciplined implementation