Top-Performing Companies Focus on Customer Domains

MIT CISR

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's September 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0901_DomainOriented_WeillWoerner. Abstract: A domain-oriented company helps serve a customer’s end-to-end need by focusing on customer outcomes rather than on the sales of products and services. In our latest survey, the companies we identified as being domain-oriented were top performers, with a huge premium on revenue growth and net margin. But taking a domain orientation requires a big mindset change of a company. In this briefing we explore what it takes to become a domain-oriented company and illustrate it with examples from Kaiser Permanente, Shopify, and Cemex.