Wavelength Media: Finding 25% Growth
Consulting
medium45 min0 submissionsAmazon
Scenario
Wavelength Media (streaming, US) has grown at 1% a year for three years. The new CEO has committed the board to 25% growth — a gap of roughly $243 M of incremental revenue in year one.
What we know.
- Current revenue: $1011 M
- 1620 active customers
- Annual customer churn: 22%
- Estimated share of existing customers' relevant spend: 33%
- The core market is growing at 5% — so the company is roughly holding share
The CEO's instinct is to enter a new geography. The CFO thinks the answer is in the existing base. Nobody has yet sized either.
Supporting data
market
- core market growth pct
- 5
customers
- active customers
- 1620
- annual churn pct
- 22
- share of wallet pct
- 33
- average revenue per customer
- 624074
current state
- revenue m
- 1011
- growth pct
- 1
- revenue gap m
- 243
- target growth pct
- 25
Your task
Build the growth case. Provide:
- Analysis — where growth could come from, sized.
- Risks — of the options you recommend and reject.
- Recommendation — a prioritised growth portfolio for the next 24 months.
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How you'll be graded
100 points, 60% to pass.
- evaluation25
- recommendation25
- option generation25
- problem structuring25
Hint
Reveal suggested structure
Decompose growth into five sources and size each:
- Retention — reducing 22% churn
- Penetration — raising 33% share of wallet
- New customers in existing segments
- New products to existing customers
- New geographies or segments
Score on size, speed, cost and risk. The first two are usually cheapest and fastest; the last is usually slowest.