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Improve Your Ability to Manage Costs

StrategyStreet helps you control your costs by setting reasonable targets for low costs and then managing your economies of scale for a more effective cost structure.

Improve Your Ability to Manage Costs

Manage your cost structure to create Economies of Scale while offering good value to Core customers. This activity identifies the gap you have to close in your financial performance. It looks at the advantages or disadvantages that you have with visible costs compared to your lower cost competitors. The changes you make to improve your products and services should improve your mix of customers. This closes part of your financial gap. The remaining steps in the activity help you quantify and improve Productivity and Economies of Scale.

Diagnose Position

MANAGE COSTS EFFECTIVELY

Develop New Ideas

MANAGE COSTS EFFECTIVELY

Manage Costs Problems

Problems calling for better management of costs:

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Improve Your Ability to Set Prices

Effective pricing demands that you understand how customers view your price for performance and how that compares with the pricing of your competition.

Innovate Pricing

SET PRICES MORE EFFECTIVELY

Diagnose Opportunities

SET PRICES MORE EFFECTIVELY

Set Pricing Problems

Problems indicating a need to set better pricing:

Improve Your Ability to Set Prices

Develop a pricing policy to improve your market share and returns. This activity helps you understand the likely direction of your market's future prices. It looks for opportunities to change prices to increase your revenues. You implement your specific price changes by changing the components you use to create the price.

Improve Your Ability to Develop Successful Products and Services

StrategyStreet helps you create more successful product innovations. These techniques apply to consumer, commercial and service products. This product innovation process yields many ideas for new product innovation with high probability of gaining market share.

Improve Your Ability to Develop Successful Products and Services

Develop new products and services to gain share with Core customer segments. What do you add to your current package of products and services and in what order? This activity answers these questions. First, it corrects problems that cause your current customers to reduce their purchases from you. These are the easiest changes you can make. It proceeds to develop potential innovations that might reduce the costs that customers incur with your product over the life of the product. It checks whether each innovation is difficult to copy because it must be unique in order to increase your market share. Finally, this activity sets priorities for your potential innovations.

Develop Product Innovations

DEVELOP SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Identify Customer Costs

DEVELOP SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Product Innovation Problems

Problems calling for better product innovation:

Improve Your Ability to Segment Customers

StrategyStreet helps you segment your customers. These customer segments result from analyses of customer relationship sizes and needs. Your key customer segments allow you to grow market share profitability.

Customer Segmentation Problems

Problems calling for better customer segmentation: