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Audio Tip #1: Defining a Business

Audio Tip #2: An Example of Smilar, but Different Businesses

Audio Tip #3: Introduction to Step 1 of the Basic Strategy Guide

Audio Tip #4: Introduction to Step 2 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #5: The Importance of Various Customer Size Segments in your Customer Portfolio
Audio Tip #6: How Do We Use Segmentation by Size
Audio Tip #7: Growth Rates Across and Within Customer-Size Segments
Audio Tip #8: What Size Segments Should We Seek
Audio Tip #9: Introduction to Step 3 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #10: Why Would a Customer Need More Than One Supplier
Audio Tip #11: Price Information Compared to Price Leverage
Audio Tip #12: Supplier Roles and the Customer Buying Hierarchy
Audio Tip #13: The Size of Supplier Roles
Audio Tip #14: Size Segments on the Customer Size/Supplier Role Matrix
Audio Tip #15: Using the Customer Size/Supplier Role Matrix
Audio Tip #16: What does it mean if there are more than four suppliers in a customer relationship
Audio Tip #17: The Heart of the Market
Audio Tip #18: Introduction to Step 4 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #19: Introduction to Step 5 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #20: Implications of Changes in a Customer's Size Segment Over Time
Audio Tip #21: Our Company's Performance by Segment Compared to Others' Performance
Audio Tip #22: Pricing Within Segments in Hostile Markets
Audio Tip #23: When Does a Customer Become Unattractive?
Audio Tip #24: The Customer Buying Hierarchy as Markets Evolve
Audio Tip #25: The Company's Ability to Serve Major Size/Role Segments
Audio Tip #26: Introduction to Step 6 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #27: How Do I Use An Index?
Audio Tip #28: Volatility Vs. Growth
Audio Tip #29: Positive Vs. Negative Volatility
Audio Tip #30: The Secret to Measuring Volatility
Audio Tip #31: Volatility in Hostile and Non-hostile Industries
Audio Tip #32: Introduction to Step 7 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #33: Strong Vs. Weak Competitors
Audio Tip #34: How Does a Company "Win" in a Market?
Audio Tip #35: How Does a Company "Fail" in a Market?
Audio Tip #36: The Importance of Customer Retention in Hostility
Audio Tip #37: The Meaning of the Company Volume Index on the Size/Role Matrix
Audio Tip #38: Market Tiering
Audio Tip #39: Tiers and Competitor Strength
Audio Tip #40: The Components of Market Share Change
Audio Tip #41: Introduction to Step 9 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #42: Introduction to Step 10 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #43: Characteristic Volatility of a Strong Standard Leader
Audio Tip #44: Volatility in Developing and Hostile Markets
Audio Tip #45: The Components of Positive Volatility
Audio Tip #46: The Components of Negative Volatility
Audio Tip #47: Net Volatility
Audio Tip #48: Introduction to Step 11 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #49: The Three Profitability Categories of Customers
Audio Tip #50: Company Objectives with the Three Profitability Categories of Customers
Audio Tip #51: Customer Profitability and Company Objectives
Audio Tip #52: Introduction to Step 8 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #53: Setting Specific Company Objectives for Many Customers
Audio Tip #54: Treat the Largest Customers Gingerly
Audio Tip #55: Warning on a Price-based Relationship
Audio Tip #56: The Risks of Being a Sole Supplier
Audio Tip #57: Adding Capacity for Near and Non-core Customers
Audio Tip #58: Core Customer Volume as a Percentage of Total Industry Sales
Audio Tip #59: Introduction to Step 12 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #60: Customer Segmentation by Needs
Audio Tip #61: The Key Customer Benefits in Each Type of Market
Audio Tip #62: The Most Important Customer in Hostility
Audio Tip #63: Introduction to Step 13 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #64: The Objectives of a Performance Improvement Program
Audio Tip #65: Why is Negative Volatility so bad for us?
Audio Tip #66: The Importance of Failures on Reliability
Audio Tip #67: Gaining Share with Retention
Audio Tip #68: Producing a Net Value Improvement for Customers
Audio Tip #69: Comparison of Reasons for Actual and Hidden Volatility
Audio Tip #70: Several Rounds in Evaluation Failures
Audio Tip #71: Price Sensitivity Among Core Customers
Audio Tip #72: Reliability Failures Among Outstanding Companies
Audio Tip #73: Advice on Interviewing Customers
Audio Tip #74: Introduction to Step 14 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #75: Introduction to Step 16 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #76: The Cost of the Product and the Customer's Cost System
Audio Tip #77: Which Customer's Cost System Do We Care Most About?
Audio Tip #78: Quantifying the Customer Cost System into Costs per Unit of Product
Audio Tip #79: How Much Must My Product Reduce the Customer's Cost?
Audio Tip #80: Measuring Customer Cost Savings
Audio Tip #81: Standard Leader Products and Companies
Audio Tip #82: Performance Leader Products and Companies
Audio Tip #83: Price Leader Products and Companies
Audio Tip #84: Next Leader Products and Companies
Audio Tip #85: Introduction to Step 15 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #86: Withdrawing From a Product Price Point
Audio Tip #87: Potential Low-end Competitors in a Marketplace
Audio Tip #88: Questions to Determine Your Response to a Low-end Competitor
Audio Tip #89: Price Point Bias
Audio Tip #90: How to Improve a Product and Service Package
Audio Tip #91: Introduction to Step 17 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #92: How Do We Add Knowledge to the Customer?
Audio Tip #93: How Do We Reduce the Resources Used With our Product?
Audio Tip #94: How Do We Improve the Customer's Experience with the Product?
Audio Tip #95: The Customer Buying Hierarchy
Audio Tip #96: Introduction to Step 18 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #97: How Do We Know if an Innovation Will Remain Unique?
Audio Tip #98: Changing Definitions of Life Cycle Costs for Final Customers
Audio Tip #99: What is Price?
Audio Tip #100: Who Determines the Price?
Audio Tip #101: When is Price Likely to go up in a Market?
Audio Tip #102: When is Price Likely to go Down?
Audio Tip #103: Capacity Creep Expansion of Industry Capacity
Audio Tip #104: Where is the "Profit" in Expansion?
Audio Tip #105: What is the Effect of a Price
Audio Tip #106: How do we Predict Competitor Responses to our Price Moves?
Audio Tip #107: Peers and Their Pricing
Audio Tip #108: Price Leverage and Pricing
Audio Tip #109: Price Leverage Compared to Price Information
Audio Tip #110: Customer Size and Negotiating Ability
Audio Tip #111: Relative Pricing is Predictable
Audio Tip #112: The Effect of Last Look
Audio Tip #113: Tools to Change Pricing
Audio Tip #114: The Key Components of a Price
Audio Tip #115: Recycling of Capacity and Prices
Audio Tip #116: The Withdrawal of Capacity to Raise Prices
Audio Tip #117: Capacity Constraints and Pricing
Audio Tip #118: The Leader's Trap
Audio Tip #119: A Price Umbrella
Audio Tip #120: Using Low Price to Gain Share in Hostile Markets
Audio Tip #121: The Spread of Price Discounts
Audio Tip #122: Forms of Industry Capacity Additions
Audio Tip #123: Pricing Environments Needed for Capacity Additions
Audio Tip #124: Price Premiums Come From Competitive Weakness
Audio Tip #125: Should You Tell the Customer You Expect a Price Premium?
Audio Tip #126: Earn a "Hidden" Price Increase
Audio Tip #127: Price Gaps in Hostile and Non-Hostile Industries
Audio Tip #128: The Sources of Price Differences in Hostile and Non-Hostile Industries
Audio Tip #129: When Should You Do a Detailed Price Forecast?
Audio Tip #130: The Problem with High Returns
Audio Tip #131: Defensive versus Offensive Pricing
Audio Tip #132: Why Forecast Future Prices?
Audio Tip #133: What Tells Us Prices Will be Under Pressure?
Audio Tip #134: What are the Objectives of Our Pricing Policy?
Audio Tip #135: The Three Basic Rules of Pricing in Overcapacity
Audio Tip #136: Should we put our Product on Allocation?
Audio Tip #137: Price Shavers and Their Pricing
Audio Tip #138: Predicting Competitor's Relative Pricing
Audio Tip #139: When Operating Capacity Must be Withdrawn

Audio Tip #140: New Low Prices for the Standard Leader Product Spread Across Customer Size Segments

Audio Tip #141: The Power of Price in Non-Hostile and Hostile Markets
Audio Tip #142: Defensive Pricing Guidelines
Audio Tip #143: Offensive Pricing Guidelines
Audio Tip #144: Introduction to Step 21 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #145: Introduction to Step 19 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #146: Introduction to Step 20 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #147: The Frequency of Price Changes
Audio Tip #148: Levels at Which a Company May Set the Price
Audio Tip #149: Introduction to Step 22 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #150: Introduction to Step 23 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #151: Changing Performance and Price Together
Audio Tip #152: Optional Components of the Price
Audio Tip #153: The List Price
Audio Tip #154: Pricing and the Basis of Charge
Audio Tip #155: Period of Effectiveness and Pricing
Audio Tip #156: The Problem with Private Labels
Audio Tip #157: Do We Really Love Those 100% Customers?
Audio Tip #158: How Much of a Hostile Market is Volatile on Price?
Audio Tip #159: How Do We Segment Customers by Physical Needs?
Audio Tip #160: How Do We Segment Customers by Emotional Needs?
Audio Tip #161: How Do We Segment Customers by Intellectual Needs?
Audio Tip #162: Introduction to Step 24 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #163: Introduction to Step 25 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #164: Introduction to Step 26 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #165: Introduction to Step 27 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #166: Introduction to Step 28 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #167: Introduction to Step 29 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #168: Introduction to Step 30 of the Basic Strategy Guide
Audio Tip #169: Measures of the Company’s Cost Position
Audio Tip #170: Return on Investment as a Measure of a Company’s Cost Effectiveness
Audio Tip #171: Comparisons of Return on Investment Measures
Audio Tip #172: Benchmarks of Return on Investment
Audio Tip #173: Benchmarks of Operating Profits
Audio Tip #174: Benchmarks of Capital Intensity
Audio Tip #175: Company Size and Return on Investment
Audio Tip #176: Causes of Advantages in Rate of Cost
Audio Tip #177: Rate of Cost Advantages Due to the Source of Purchases
Audio Tip #178: Typical Cost Functions for Manufacturing Businesses
Audio Tip #179: Typical Cost Functions for a Wholesale, Retail or Distribution Business
Audio Tip #180: The Real Low-Cost Competitor
Audio Tip #181: Using Physical Measures to Control Costs
Audio Tip #182: Productivity as a Measure of Physical Costs
Audio Tip #183: Building Block Costs in Productivity
Audio Tip #184: Functional Cost Organizations in Productivity
Audio Tip #185: The Physical Measure of Output for the Customer
Audio Tip #186: Intermediate Cost Drivers
Audio Tip #187: The Components of Productivity
Audio Tip #188: The Efficiency of the Input
Audio Tip #189: The Effectiveness of the ICD
Audio Tip #190: Approaches to Creating High Efficiency of Input
Audio Tip #191: Sustainable Economies of Scale
Audio Tip #192: Approaches to Improving the Effectiveness of an ICD
Audio Tip #193: The Types of People in a Functional Cost Organization
Audio Tip #194: The Primacy of the Customer in Considering Cost Reduction
Audio Tip #195: Economies of Scale and Their Measurement
Audio Tip #196: Why Economies of Scale Exist
Audio Tip #197: Market Share and Returns
Audio Tip #198: Diseconomies of Scale
Audio Tip #199: Super-economies of Scale
Audio Tip #200: Using Acquisitions to Create Economies of Scale
Audio Tip #201: The Amount of Price Movement
Audio Tip #202: Attracting Customers with a Low Price
Audio Tip #203: Retaining Customers with a Low Price
Audio Tip #204: Rewarding Customers with a Low Price
Audio Tip #205: Pricing Objectives in a Rising Price Environment
Audio Tip #206: Pricing Objectives in a Falling Price Environment
Audio Tip #207: Targeting Segments in a Rising Price Environment
Audio Tip #208: Targeting Segments in a Falling Price Environment
Audio Tip #209: Segments Where Competitors are Likely to be Unwilling to Counter the Company
Audio Tip #210: Product Purchased Segments
Audio Tip #211: Margin Building Segments
Audio Tip #212: Competitive Supplier Segments
Audio Tip #213: Segments Who are Captive to the Company
Audio Tip #214: Segments Where Competitors Cannot Counter the Company