Basear os preços no valor

Já devia ter percebido o meu erro... já devia estar de pé atrás e ter cuidado.
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Já por mais de uma vez escrevi que os empresários portugueses têm o mau costume de subavaliar os seus produtos e serviços.
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Errado? Não mas...
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Mas não são só os empresários portugueses!!!!
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Depois de Byrnes, depois da curva de Stobachoff que Storbacka desenhou para os bancos finlandeses já devia metido na cabeça que os empresários portugueses não são uma espécie à parte, nem piores nem melhores que os outros.
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Foi o artigo "Customer value-based pricing strategies: why companies resist" de Andreas Hinterhuber e publicado no VOL. 29 NO. 4 2008, pp. 41-50 do Journal of Business Strategy que me fez reconhecer o erro.
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O que tento e tento, algumas vezes com sucesso, é que os empresários mudem de software para definir o preço das suas ofertas. A esmagadora maioria define os seus preços com base nos custos ou com base nos preços da concorrência. Assim, muitos deles, desvalorizam as suas ofertas e deixam dinheiro em cima da mesa negocial.
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Só que para meu espanto, confesso, o mesmo se passa na Alemanha, Austria e Suiça.
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Ou seja, o mundo económico está cheio de pagãos... um mercado espectacular para divulgar o Evangelho do Valor!!!
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"pricing strategies can be categorised into three groups:

• 1. cost-based pricing;
• 2. competition-based pricing; and
• 3. customer value-based pricing.

Of these, customer value-based pricing is increasingly recognised in the literature as superior to all other pricing strategies (Ingenbleek et al., 2003). For example, Monroe (2002, p. 36) observes that: ‘‘ . . . the profit potential for having a value-oriented pricing strategy that works is far greater than with any other pricing approach’’.
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The increasing endorsement of customer value-based strategies among academics and practitioners is based on a general recognition that the keys to sustained profitability lie in the essential features of customer value-based pricing, including understanding the sources of value for customers; designing products, services, and solutions that meet customers’ needs; setting prices as a function of value; and implementing consistent pricing policies.
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Despite the obvious benefits of customer value-based approaches to pricing, a review of the literature suggests that these methods still play a relatively minor role in pricing strategies. (Moi ici: Afinal não são só os empresários portugueses que resistem)
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Cost-based pricing derives from data from cost accounting. Competition-based pricing uses anticipated or observed price levels of competitors as primary source for setting prices and customer value-based pricing uses the value that a product or service delivers to a segment of customers as the main factor for setting prices.  (Moi ici: Uma das mensagens mais frequentes neste blogue, a par da concentração do negócio, focalização na emergência do valor co-criado durante a experiência de integração na vida dos clientes-alvo)
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Backman (1953, p. 148) notes that ‘‘. . .the graveyard of business is filled with the skeletons of companies that attempted to base their prices solely on costs’’.  (Moi ici: Como podia resistir a este "writebyte") More recently, Myers et al. (2002) assert that cost-based pricing produces sub-standard profitability; similarly, Simon et al. (2003) contend that cost-based pricing leads to lower-than-average profitability.
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customer value-based pricing approaches are, overall, the best strategies to adopt in making decisions about new product pricing.
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Despite the fact that empirical research shows that value-based approaches are superior to other pricing approaches, it has not been widely adopted in practice.
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literature review reveals that value-based pricing approaches remain in a significant minority.

(Moi ici: Os autores fizeram uma pesquisa no universo que se segue para tentar perceber o porquê do pouco uso do preço baseado no valor para o cliente) A sample of 126 marketing managers, business unit managers, key account managers, pricing managers, and general managers were initially recruited for this study. These managers participated in in-house pricing workshops which the author conducted in the period 2006-2007. Companies represented included automotive, chemicals, information technology (IT), chemicals, industrial services and fast moving consumer goods. We held nine workshops at nine different companies in Germany, Austria, China, and the USA. The study design is thus cross-sectional, multi-country, and multi-industry.
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In response to questions about the obstacles to implementation of value-based pricing, a wide array of answers was received (with multiple answers being allowed and encouraged). As shown In Figure 2, six main obstacles were identified after clustering responses:

(Moi ici: Vamos procurar analisar cada um destes factores)
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