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Pricing and Profitability Management: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders
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Pricing and Profitability Management: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders

by Julie M. Meehan, Michael G. Simonetto, Larry Montan Jr., Christopher A. Goodin
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
9h 33m
English
Wiley
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Integrating Cluster Analyses to Segment Customers, Products, and Services

As discussed in Chapter 3, “Developing an Effective Pricing Strategy,” advanced analytics support key elements of customer needs analysis and attribute clustering, helping to pair the right products with the right customers. These analytic techniques provide a thorough, reliable mechanism to analyze key customer attributes that should not be left to intuition or chance. Cluster analysis combines buyers, products, or services into relevant categories with the goal of differentiating how a company serves them. Organizations seeking to improve profits can often do so by:

  • shifting customers from a lower-margin product to a higher-margin one within the same cluster
  • targeting similarly clustered customers for high-profit offerings
  • pairing higher- and lower-profit services in the same cluster.
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