Using Cost-Driven Pricing

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"Sin #3: Using Cost-Driven Pricing.
Cost-driven pricing means that you simply add up all your costs, and then add a profit, and there you are - the price you should charge. It’s all very logical, but it is wrong, according to Drucker. This, by the way, is how governments insist contractors price their products. It’s supposed to ensure both competition and a “fair” price. All you need to do is look at government cost overruns to see how well that approach is working.
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Drucker said that instead of cost-driven pricing, you needed to do price-driven costing. That is, you need to start at the other end with the right price, and then to work back from price to determine your allowable costs. Drucker blamed the loss of the consumer-electronics industry and the machine-tool industry in the U.S. directly on this deadly sin. One begins to understand why Drucker called these deadly sins, and not simply marketing mistakes."