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The EVVE Experience Building a Business and Marketing Plan The Consultant’s Perspective June 5 , 2013 Phoenix, Arizona. It Started with an RFP. On June 27, 2012 NAPHSIS issued an RFP Seeking a planning partner Business Plan Marketing Plan Plan goals
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The EVVE Experience Building a Business and Marketing Plan The Consultant’s Perspective June 5, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona
It Started with an RFP • On June 27, 2012 NAPHSIS issued an RFP • Seeking a planning partner • Business Plan • Marketing Plan • Plan goals • Increase EVVE customer base of Federal and State government agencies • Expand EVVE use to commercial organizations • Time of the essence
The Scope Per the RFP • Assess current state of the market (general economic, political, and legal conditions) • Define current market trends and analyze competition • Identify new Federal/State agencies or uses and estimate transaction volume • Identify new commercial markets and estimate transaction volume • Identify EVVE functionality enhancements and technical changes required • Develop a pricing model • Recommend NAPHSIS staff levels required to execute the plan • Develop marketing and communication strategy • Define marketing, advertising, promotion plan with costs • Produce a financial forecast including detailed monthly, quarterly and annual query volume goals • Develop an exit strategy
What Else Did the RFP Reveal? • Few customers • Federal Government • Social Security Administration • Office of Personnel Management • Department of State • Army National Guard • State Government • Medicaid in five states • Mississippi District Health Offices • Oklahoma State Treasurer • One known barrier: price
What Else Did the RFP Reveal? • Public Death Master File Opportunity • Non-governmental customer set • Accustomed to receiving a very different product from EVVE • Low pricing • High volume • Low match rate
Our Proposal • Feasibility Assessment • Business Model • Marketing Plan including pricing model
Feasibility Assessment • The goal: Establish a set of metrics that best characterize acceptability of investing in the EVVE product and/or market expansion • Feasibility criteria types: • Markets • Products • Organizational Capacity • Financial Feasibility
Business Model • The goals: • Foster understanding, discussion, creativity and analysis • Get everybody on the same page • Document the agreed upon hypotheses regarding the EVVE system expansion for validation by current and potential customers before significant resources are expended.
Marketing Plan • The goal: Provide the strategic and tactical details for NAPHSIS to validate the business model and expand market penetration of the EVVE system: • Define market tactics • Apply the market tactics to market segments
Lessons Learned • Projects require: • Flexibility • Open mindedness • Trust • Teamwork • Challenging projects can still be: • On time • On budget • And produce an actionable outcome
Thank You Contact information: Suzanne March QuantumMark, LLC suzanne@quantummark.com