The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 5th Edition

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 5th Edition

by Thomas T. Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Released August 2016
Publisher(s): Routledge
ISBN: 9781351969505

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Book description

For undergraduate introduction to Market Pricing courses.

A comprehensive and practical, step-by-step guide to pricing analysis and strategy development.

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing shows readers how to manage markets strategically—rather than simply calculate pricing based on product and profit—in order to improve their competitiveness and the profitability of their offers.

The fifth edition contains a new chapter on price implementation and several updated examples on pricing challenges in today’s markets.

Features:

NEW! Show students how proper pricing can increase profitability—New Chapter on Price Implementation.

A completely new chapter on implementing pricing strategy identifies the challenges involved in embedding strategic pricing principles within an organization. This chapter also describes how managers can lead a structured change process to build a more profitable commercial organization.

NEW! Offer access to pricing software—Three-Month Trial of LeveragePoint Software.

This edition is now available with software for creating and communicating economic value estimations systematically—from LeveragePoint Innovations Inc. While versions of this software that enable sharing require corporate contracts for access, versions for individual student and practitioner use are available without charge for three months with the purchase of The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing. 

NEW! Make pricing theory relative—Updated Examples of Pricing.

Helping connect pricing theory to what students are familiar with, this edition includes updated examples with more topical illustrations of current pricing challenges such as:
•    iPhone pricing
•    New models for pricing music
•    Services pricing

NEW! Present the latest information—Heavily Revised Chapters.
The revised chapter on Pricing Policy provides a theoretically-grounded framework to describe specific policies for managing price changes for situations such as:
-Cost-based price increases
-Price reductions in a recession
-Discounts

The chapter on Value Creation now addresses the difference between how to consider value when it is driven by tangible monetary drivers (saving money on gas) versus the more subjective psychological drivers (doing the right thing for the environment).


The chapter on Value and Price Communication has been substantially revised to describe how to communicate value in a wide variety of product and customer contexts. This chapter also demonstrates how to target communications to affect specific behaviors throughout the customer’s buying process.
The chapter on Price Setting has been expanded to provide a robust process for setting prices that can be widely applied to consumer and business markets.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Brief Contents
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Strategic Pricing Coordinating the Drivers of Profitability
    1. Coordinating the Drivers of Profitability
    2. Cost-Plus Pricing
    3. Customer-Driven Pricing
    4. Share-Driven Pricing
    5. What Is Strategic Pricing?
    6. Value Creation
    7. Price Structure
    8. Price and Value Communication
    9. Pricing Policy
    10. Price Level
    11. Implementing the Pricing Strategy
    12. Summary
    13. Notes
  9. Chapter 2 Value Creation The Source of Pricing Advantage
    1. The Source of Pricing Advantage
    2. The Role of Value in Pricing
    3. How to Estimate Economic Value
    4. Competitive Reference Prices
    5. Estimating Monetary Value
    6. Monetary Value Estimation: An Illustration
    7. Estimating Psychological Value
    8. Psychological Value Estimation: An Illustration
    9. The High Cost of Shortcuts
    10. Value-Based Market Segmentation
    11. Step 1: Determine Basic Segmentation Criteria
    12. Step 2: Identify Discriminating Value Drivers
    13. Step 3: Determine Your Operational Constraints and Advantages
    14. Step 4: Create Primary and Secondary Segments
    15. Step 5: Create Detailed Segment Descriptions
    16. Step 6: Develop Segment Metrics and Fences
    17. Summary
    18. Notes
  10. Chapter 3 Price Structure Tactics for Pricing Differently Across Segments
    1. Tactics for Pricing Differently Across Segments
    2. Price-Offer Configuration
    3. Optimizing an Offer Bundle
    4. Designing Segment Specific Bundles
    5. Unbundling Strategically
    6. Price Metrics
    7. Creating Good Price Metrics
    8. Performance-Based Metrics
    9. Tie-Ins as Metrics
    10. Price Fences
    11. Buyer Identification Fences
    12. Purchase Location Fences
    13. Time of Purchase Fences
    14. Purchase Quantity Fences
    15. Summary
    16. Notes
  11. Chapter 4 Price and Value Communication Strategies to Influence Willingness-to-Pay
    1. Strategies to Influence Willingness-to-Pay
    2. Value Communication
    3. Adapting the Message for Product Characteristics
    4. Adapting the Message to Purchase Context
    5. The Buying Process
    6. Multiple Participants in the Buying Process
    7. Price Communication
    8. Proportional Price Evaluations
    9. Reference Prices
    10. Perceived Fairness
    11. Gain-Loss Framing
    12. Summary
    13. Notes
  12. Chapter 5 Pricing Policy Managing Expectations to Improve Price Realization
    1. Managing Expectations to Improve Price Realization
    2. Policy Development
    3. Policies for Responding to Price Objections
    4. The Problem with Ad Hoc Negotiation
    5. The Benefits of Policies for Price Negotiation
    6. Policies for Different Buyer Types
    7. Policies for Dealing with Power Buyers
    8. Policies for Managing Price Increases
    9. Policies for Leading an Industry-Wide Increase
    10. Policies for Transitioning from Low One-Off Pricing
    11. Policies for Dealing with an Economic Downturn
    12. Policies for Promotional Pricing
    13. Summary
    14. Notes
  13. Chapter 6 Price Level Setting the Right Price for Sustainable Profit
    1. Setting the Right Price for Sustainable Profit
    2. The Price-Setting Process
    3. Defining the Price Window
    4. Establishing an Initial Price Point
    5. Pricing Objectives
    6. Defining the Price-Volume Trade-off
    7. Estimating Consumer Response
    8. Communicate New Prices to the Market
    9. Summary
    10. Notes
  14. Chapter 7 Pricing Over the Product Life Cycle Adapting Strategy in an Evolving Market
    1. Adapting Strategy in an Evolving Market
    2. New Products and the Product Life Cycle
    3. Pricing the Innovation for Market Introduction
    4. Communicating Value with Trial Promotions
    5. Communicating Value with Direct Sales
    6. Marketing Innovations Through Distribution Channels
    7. Pricing New Products for Growth
    8. Pricing within a Differentiated Product Strategy
    9. Pricing within a Cost Leadership Strategy
    10. Price Reductions in Growth
    11. Pricing the Established Product in Maturity
    12. Pricing a Product in Market Decline
    13. Alternative Strategies in Decline
    14. Summary
    15. Notes
  15. Chapter 8 Pricing Strategy Implementation Embedding Strategic Pricing in the Organization
    1. Embedding Strategic Pricing in the Organization
    2. Organization
    3. Organizational Structure
    4. Decision Rights
    5. Pricing Processes
    6. Motivation
    7. Customer Analytics
    8. Process Management Analytics
    9. Performance Measures and Incentives
    10. Managing the Change Process
    11. Senior Management Leadership
    12. Demonstration Projects
    13. Summary
    14. Notes
  16. Chapter 9 Costs How Should They Affect Pricing Decisions?
    1. How Should They Affect Pricing Decisions?
    2. The Role of Costs in Pricing
    3. Determining Relevant Costs
    4. Why Incremental Costs?
    5. Why Avoidable Costs?
    6. Avoiding Misleading Accounting
    7. Estimating Relevant Costs
    8. Activity-Based Costing
    9. Percent Contribution Margin and Pricing Strategy
    10. Managing Costs in Transfer Pricing
    11. Summary
    12. Notes
  17. Chapter 10 Financial Analysis Pricing for Profit
    1. Pricing for Profit
    2. Break-even Sales Analysis: The Basic Case
    3. Break-even Sales Incorporating a Change in Variable Costs
    4. Break-even Sales with Incremental Fixed Costs
    5. Break-even Sales Analysis for Reactive Pricing
    6. Calculating Potential Financial Implications
    7. Break-even Sales Curves
    8. Watching Your Baseline
    9. Covering Nonincremental Fixed and Sunk Costs
    10. Summary
    11. Notes
    12. Appendix 10A
    13. Derivation of the Break-even Formula
    14. Appendix 10B
    15. Break-even Analysis of Price Changes
  18. Chapter 11 Competition Managing Conflict Thoughtfully
    1. Managing Conflict Thoughtfully
    2. Understanding the Pricing Game
    3. Competitive Advantage: The Only Sustainable Source of Profitability
    4. Reacting to Competition: Think Before You Act
    5. How Should You React?
    6. Managing Competitive Information
    7. Collect and Evaluate Information
    8. Selectively Communicate Information
    9. When Should You Compete on Price?
    10. Summary
    11. Notes
  19. Chapter 12 Measurement of Price Sensitivity Research Techniques to Supplement Judgment
    1. Research Techniques to Supplement Judgment
    2. Types of Measurement Procedures
    3. Uncontrolled Studies of Actual Purchases
    4. Experimentally Controlled Studies of Actual Purchases
    5. Uncontrolled Studies of Preferences and Intentions
    6. Experimentally Controlled Studies of Preferences and Intentions
    7. Using Measurement Techniques Appropriately
    8. Using Judgment for Better Measurement
    9. Using Internet-Based Techniques
    10. Outside Sources of Data
    11. Selecting the Appropriate Measurement Technique
    12. Summary
    13. Notes
  20. Chapter 13 Ethics and the Law Understanding the Constraints on Pricing
    1. Understanding the Constraints on Pricing
    2. Ethical Constraints on Pricing
    3. The Legal Framework for Pricing
    4. The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on Pricing Practices
    5. Price-Fixing or Price Encouragement
    6. Horizontal Price-Fixing
    7. Resale Price-Fixing or Encouragement
    8. Vertical Price-Fixing
    9. Direct Dealing Programs
    10. Resale Price Encouragement
    11. Price and Promotional Discrimination
    12. Price Discrimination
    13. Defenses to Price Discrimination
    14. Promotional Discrimination
    15. Competitive Injury, Defenses, and Indirect Purchasers
    16. Using Nonprice Variables to Support Pricing Goals
    17. Vertical Nonprice Restrictions
    18. Nonprice Incentives
    19. Other Pricing Issues
    20. Predatory Pricing
    21. Price Signaling
    22. Summary
    23. Notes
  21. Index

Product information

  • Title: The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing, 5th Edition
  • Author(s): Thomas T. Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
  • Release date: August 2016
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781351969505