The LAB: Innovating the Pricing Process (November 2011)
Setting prices on new products and services is one of the most challenging roles in marketing. Pricing mistakes are costly, yet it’s one of the most tempting tools to use when trying to generate revenues. Fortunately, methods like Value Based Pricing and frameworks like The Big Picture make the job easier.
What if you wanted to explore more innovative ways to set prices? Applying the SIT innovation patterns would create new insights and options. The SIT patterns help break fixedness – the tendency to limit the way we see things to what we know. These patterns are innate to all of us. We just need to “extract” them from within and deploy them in a systematic way.
For this month’s LAB, we will apply SIT to pricing. While there are many methods and schools of thought around pricing, the SIT templates should apply to any of them. I would do the following.