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Customer buy-side perspective, Strategic account management process, Strategic account manager skills and competencies, Value co-creation

How to create financially quantified value propositions in six (actionable!) steps

By Malcolm McDonald, Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Cranfield University School of Management

Our definition of a value proposition is “the translation of the supplier’s offers into monetary terms that demonstrate their contribution to the customer’s profitability.” The key phrase here is “customer profitability,” because if you can prove that dealing with you will make your customer richer, they will buy from you. 

Even a cursory glance at the pricing example below from global engineering group SKF illustrates the dramatic impact that is possible as a result of preparing financially quantified value propositions. 

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June 21, 2019February 2, 2022Creating value propositions, Customer knowledge, customer-centricity, Financial/business acumen, Value analysis and opportunity insightLeave a comment
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Creating joint solutions: What the best do differently (Part 2)

By Phil Styrlund and James Robertson

In the first post in this series, we examined how market disruption, changing buyer behaviors and other factors are rendering traditional sources of growth – like internal research and development of products and services, pricing, and branding – inadequate. To grow profitably in today’s business market, companies have no choice but to engage with their customers and partners to co-create new sources of value by deepening insights, aligning goals, developing joint solutions, leveraging mutual capabilities and executing together.

That was the what. Now let’s move on to the how. 

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June 3, 2019October 9, 2019customer co-discovery, Customer knowledge, Customer orientationLeave a comment
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Creating joint solutions: The WHAT and the HOW of becoming and remaining relevant

By Phil Styrlund and James Robertson, The Summit Group

This is part one of a three-part series. Parts two and three are available here and here.

Persistent, disruptive forces impacting profitable growth are intensifying and, as a result, companies in many industries face slower growth and accelerating commoditization of product and service margins.

Given marketplace complexity and dynamic shifts in how customers buy, traditional business models are threatened, and new strategies and capabilities for driving growth must be more intentionally developed. In this series of posts,  we will outline a pragmatic yet powerful framework for co-creating solutions with strategic customers.

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May 1, 2019October 8, 2019Customer co-d, Customer knowledge, Customer orientation3 Comments

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