The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad.
Autorentext
MICHAEL V. MARN is a partner in the Cleveland office of the
international consulting firm of McKinsey & Company. He joined
McKinsey in 1977, and has developed some of the most widely used
analytic approaches for identifying and capturing opportunities in
pricing. He has written articles on pricing that have appeared in
publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,
and the Harvard Business Review.
ERIC V. ROEGNER is a partner in the Cleveland office of
McKinsey & Company. Since joining McKinsey in 1994, he has
served clients in all major markets on a wide range of pricing and
marketing issues. In addition, he has published several articles on
pricing and marketing strategy in journals including Marketing
Management, the OESA Journal, and The McKinsey Quarterly.
CRAIG C. ZAWADA is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of
McKinsey & Company. Since joining McKinsey in 1997, he has
worked with companies across a wide range of industries, helping
them to identify and capture improvements in pricing. He is widely
published in the area of pricing strategy, with articles appearing
in the Harvard Busin ess Review, Mergers and Acquisitions, and The
McKinsey Quarterly.
Klappentext
The Price Advantage, written by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company, is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, firsthand experience with hundreds of companies, as well as significant investments in basic pricing research, this book is designed to be a comprehensive guide for managers through the maze of pricing issues. The authors examine state-of-the-art approaches for analyzing and improving pricing performance, demonstrate those approaches with real case studies, and draw a pricing excellence blueprint for companies to follow. In good economic times or bad, achieving the price advantage is critical to corporate performance and profitability.
Zusammenfassung
The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad.
Inhalt
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART ONE: PRICING FUNDAMENTALS.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. The Three Levels of Price Management.
PART TWO: EXPLORING THE LEVELS.
Chapter 3. Transaction.
Chapter 4. Product/Market Strategy.
Chapter 5. Industry Strategy.
PART THREE: SPECIAL TOPICS.
Chapter 6. New Product Pricing.
Chapter 7. Solutions, Bundles, and Other Packaged Offerings.
PART FOUR: UNIQUE EVENTS.
Chapter 8. Postmerger Pricing.
Chapter 9. Price Wars.
PART FIVE: EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES.
Chapter 10. Technology-Enabled Pricing.
Chapter 11. Legal Issues.
PART SIX: BRINGING IT TOGETHER.
Chapter 12. Pricing Architecture.
Chapter 13. Driving Pricing Change.
Chapter 14. The Monarch Battery Case.
Chapter 15. Epilogue.
Appendix 1: Sample Pocket Price and Pocket Margin
Waterfalls.
Appendix 2: Antitrust Issues.
Appendix 3: List of Acronyms.
About the Authors.
Index.