Subimal Chatterjee
Professional MBA Program (New York City)
Sept. 13 and 20, 2014
Customer Value Management: Readings and Cases
MGMT 587B: Customer Value Management
Binghamton University
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Customer value = perceived benefits minus perceived price
The horizontal axis quantifies benefits as perceived by the customer; the vertical axis shows perceived price. Each dot represents a competitor’s product or service.
Higher-priced, higher-benefit competitors are toward the upper right; lowerpriced, lower-benefit competitors are at the lower leƒt.
Customer-perceived benefits
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THE McKINSEY QUARTERLY 1997 NUMBER 1
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SETTING VALUE, NOT PRICE
If market shares hold constant (and if you have the right measurement of perceived benefits and perceived prices), then competitors will align in a straight diagonal line called the value equivalence line (VEL). At any desired price or benefit level, there is a clear and logical choice for customers on the VEL. So competitors aligned on the VEL say in such a market that “you get what you pay for.” The clarity of that choice almost defines a market in which shares are stable. (Note that while market shares might be stable for competitors along the VEL, their shares might not be equal. Again, more on this later.)
Exhibit 2
Share loser
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C
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Share gainer
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