Implementing Value Pricing : A Radical Business Model for Professional Firms
Ronald J. Baker
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel | |
---|---|
Utgitt | Chichester : : Wiley, , 2010.
|
Omfang | 1 online resource (401 p.)
|
Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Implementing Value Pricing: A Radical Business Model for Professional Firms; Contents; Foreword; Preface; About This Book; About the Web Site; About the Words Used in This Book; Acknowledgments; About the Author; PART I: A Radical Business Model; CHAPTER 1: The Firm of the Past; CHAPTER 2: The Firm of the Future; The Business Model of the Firm of the Future; Revenue Is Vanity-Profit Is Sanity; Businesses Have Prices, Not Hourly Rates; Why Intellectual Capital Is the Chief Source of Wealth; Negative Intellectual Capital; Why Effectiveness Trumps Efficiency; What, Exactly, Is Productivity?. - Neutral PricingTwo More Curves for Value; Implications of the Curve; CHAPTER 11: Price the Customer, Not the Service; Ten Factors of Price Sensitivity; CHAPTER 12: There Is No Such Thing as a Commodity; The Perils of Benchmarking; Purging the Commodity Word; CHAPTER 13: Baker's Law: Bad Customers Drive Out Good Customers; Customer Grading Criteria; The Adaptive Capacity Model; Firing Customers; The Forced Churn; CHAPTER 14: Value Pricing and Self-Esteem; There Is No Standard Price for Intellectual Capital; CHAPTER 15: Ethics, Fairness, and Value Pricing; The Morality of Price Discrimination. - Prospect TheoryIs Hourly Billing Ethical?; PART III: The Genesis and Consequences of Hourly Billing and Timesheets; CHAPTER 16: A Brief History of Hourly Billing and Timesheets; The Father of the Billable Hour and Timesheet-in the Legal Profession; Summary and Conclusions; CHAPTER 17: The Deleterious Effects of Hourly Billing; The Advantages of Hourly Billing; What about the Customer?; The Disadvantages of Hourly Billing; Summary and Conclusions; PART IV: What Replaces Hourly Billing and Timesheets; CHAPTER 18: Why Carthage Must Be Destroyed. - There's No Such Thing as Generic "Efficiency"Where Do Profits Come From?; If Only I Knew Then What I Know Now; Summary and Conclusions; PART II: Foundations of Creating Value; CHAPTER 3: Why Are We in Business?; The Economist's Definition of Profit; The Marketing Concept and Total Quality Service; Summary and Conclusions; CHAPTER 4: A Tale of Two Theories; The Labor Theory of Value; Karl Marx, False Prophet; The Marginalist Revolution of 1871; Why Are Diamonds More Expensive Than Water?; Wrong Theory, Suboptimal Results; CHAPTER 5: Four Ps and Five Cs; The Five Cs of Value. - What, Exactly, Replaces Hourly Billing and Timesheets?. - You Are What You ChargeCHAPTER 6: What People Buy; The Dynamics of Customer Expectations; CHAPTER 7: How People Buy; Relative, Not Absolute, Price Matters; Price Psychology; Search, Experience, and Credence Attributes; Understanding Customer Risk; The Four Ways to Spend Mone; CHAPTER 8: Your Firm's Value Proposition; Moments of Truth; What Is Beyond Total Quality Service?; CHAPTER 9: The Consumer Surplus and Price Discrimination; Price Elasticity; Consumer Surplus; Price Discrimination; Requirements to Price Discriminate; CHAPTER 10: Macro Pricing Strategies; Skim Pricing; Penetration Pricing. - Praise for Implementing Value Pricing: A Radical Business Model for Professional Firms ""Ron Baker is the most prolific and best writer when it comes to pricing services. This is a must-read for executives and partners in small to large firms. Ron provides the basics, the advanced ideas, the workbooks, the case studies-everything. This is a must-have and a terrific book.""-Reed K. Holden, founder and CEO, Holden Advisors, Corp., Associate Professor, Columbia University www.holdenadvisors.com ""We've known through Ron Baker's earlier books that he's not just an extr
|
Emner | Fairness
Pricing Professional corporations - Prices Value Vis mer... Value Fairness.
Business & Economics Commerce Marketing & Sales markedsføring distribusjonsledelse priser |
Sjanger | |
Dewey | |
ISBN | 9780470584613
|