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"The three profit drivers are sales volume, price, and costs. Specifically:
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Profit = sales volume x price – costs
.Sales volume inevitably gets everyone’s attention. What actions are we going to undertake to move product? What investments are required in sales force, advertising, and production capacity? Sales volume is seen as a controllable outcome of company actions. (Moi ici: Esta é, ainda, a alavanca mais procurada... mas num mundo com um excesso de oferta é cada vez menos exequível. Arrisco afirmar que é a aposta irreflectida, instintiva, nesta variável que gera os números identificados por Jonathan Byrnes: "If you look carefully at the net profitability of virtually any company, using a technique I call profit mapping, only 20-30 percent of the company by any measure (customers, products, orders) is profitable, while 30-40 percent is unprofitable, and the remainder is marginal.". Por isto é que tantos empresários torcem o nariz à afirmação de Terry Hill: "the most important orders are the ones to which a company says 'no'." Rejeitar encomendas é visto como um pecado.)
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Recently, (Moi ici: Este texto é de 1996, há que contextualizar...) the “costs” part of the equation has received the spotlight in many companies as companies like AT&T are “rightsized” and processes are “reengineered” in an attempt to “get the costs out.” (Moi ici: Foi nesta onda que surgiu a febre da certificação da qualidade, da normalização, da subcontratação, da ...) The attitude is that sales volume and costs can and should be managed vigorously. Pricing, however, is often the third front in the battle for profitability, as the scarce resources of management time, energy, and imagination are siphoned off to the first two fronts of sales volume and costs. (Moi ici: Tão verdadeiro!!! Ainda recentemente escrevi sobre o retorno da atenção. Interessante recordar que Hermann Simon, co-autor do livro de onde retirei este trecho, em 2006 escreveu "Manage for Profit not for Market Share" - cuidado com o volume, logo no título - onde a certa altura grita "We are not cost cutters")
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The power pricer does not treat price like a third front; rather, he brings it to the fore. The power pricer believes price can be managed as effectively as other profit drivers and recognizes the extraordinary leverage that price offers. (Moi ici: O artigo de Marn e Rosiello ilustram como apostar no preço é muito mais poderoso do que no volume ou nos custos)
The power pricer does not let “the market” or “the competition” set his price. His viewpoint is that given a customer’s wants, his offering and its presentation, along with competitive products and prices, create a value for his product. He coordinates this “value creation” with pricing, his “value extraction” activity, and understands the system relationship among his profit drivers. Price is a key element of his profit system and he does not give up control of it to someone or something else; nor does he see it as less manageable than the other profit drivers." (Moi ici: Mas não basta querer dominar o preço, há que o merecer. Mais uma vez, praticar preços mais altos não é para quem quer é para quem pode. E como é que se pode? Fazendo a diferença! Sendo diferente!)
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