Strategy for Gmail to achieve 10% growth in user base
1. Gmail – the 100 million
game!
Ajay Joshi
EMBA-2017A
Institute of Product Leadership
2. Social
Media
Collaborative
Tools &
methods
Human
behavior
New
tech.
….
40+ years and still going strong
Augmented
Product
Actual Product
Core Product
Persistent
Communication
Centralized Repository
Notification
Asynchronous
Private
access Formal
Intuitive
Efficient!
Familiar to maximum
users in the world
Almost 2.4 million emails are sent every second!
4. Consumer needs and behaviors
Number of smart phone users in India Market share by OS
5. Blue Oceans in India
Young users
• University tie-
ups for Google
product suite
Workflows ad
approvals
• Govt. Offices
• Eliminate
hard copies!
Other Google
Apps users
• Google maps
– Cab drivers:
Ola & Uber
Small
businesses
• Startups G
suite
• SME adopting
Gmail
Implement
Google internet
• Exploit J-A-M
revolution!
• Mass market
mobile tech.
21.5 M Govt
employees
only in India
50% adoption
~ 10 million
new users
2 million
drivers till
2020
~ 2 million
new users in
next 3 years
3M users every
year
~ 9 million new
users in next 3
years
100 million
users in India
Only 35% use
email.
~ 30 million
new users
200K new
joiners by
2020
30% adoption
to Gmail
~ 2M new
users in next 3
years
54 million
new users
by 2020
from India
alone!
Source
Source
Source
7. Gearing up Gmail
Eliminate
• User privacy issues
Reduce
• Cognitive load while reading mails
Raise
• AI based predictive Google assistant capabilities
• Look and feel for youngsters
• Local languages support
Create
• AI based “tell me the gist” feature
• Workflow handling like KISSFLOW
Core product
Attributes of an email
Challengers
almost 2.4 million emails are sent every second
Email Statistics report suggests that average number of emails received is set to rise from 121 per day to at least 149 each day in 2018
Stats for gmail
Mobile first to AI first
467 Million android phones will be added in
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/
Source2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272307/market-share-forecast-for-smartphone-operating-systems/