2009: The Year of Making the Right Choices
2009 may well be the year when executives and their pricing organizations choose to focus on due diligence and operational controls. As companies are grasping for straws in this tough economy, managers are scrutinizing their pricing and other business practices to fix problems and loopholes. After years of economic boom, the rapid downturn appeared like [...]
What Six Sigma Pricing Is and Is Not
How can six sigma apply to pricing strategy – Six Sigma is good only for repetitive processes?
How can quality tools change the way companies (should) look at their pricing organization which is often distributed in marketing, sales, supply chain, finance and other functions?
What is Six Sigma Pricing?
I look for the nearest soapbox whenever I get [...]
Who Owns Pricing?
The Pricing Czar is dead. He lies in state with other forgettable organizational models propounded by consultants and academics. The idea behind this model, an all-powerful person could enforce unquestionable discipline, simply does not fit with human nature. Historically, people have given in to autocracy but have always revolted against it to find themselves in [...]
Gentle, Responsive and Effective Organizations
It is July 4th – Independence Day for the United States. It just feels right to talk about uniting employees for the greater good of their companies. The sizzle of barbecues is somewhat subdued this year with the number of jobless exceeding 8.5 million in the United States. As thousands more worry about pink slips, [...]
Six Sigma Pricing