Saturday, April 16, 2016

CUSTOMER VALUE PROPOSITION


Organizations need to be more customer-oriented in order to increase their value and the focus of its strategy should be its target customers. 

The crux of the strategy must be based on the reasons that why the customer will prefer the products/services over the competitors’ products/services. The reasons must be the benefits the customer will receive in return of the price paid. And the clearly designed statement (promise) which expresses these benefits is known as customer value proposition.

It persuades the customer to buy the product/service and differentiates it from the competitors.
It broadly classified in three categories:
1.    Customer intimacy.
2.    Operational excellence.
3.    Product leadership.

1.    Customer intimacy.
When organization adopts such strategy, it is saying to its target customers that the reason they should choose the organization is because it understands and responds to their individual needs better than its competitors.

2.    Operational excellence.
When organization adopts such strategy, it is saying to its target customers that the reason they should choose the organization is because it delivers products/services faster, more conveniently and at a lower price than its competitors.

3.    Product leadership
When organization adopts such strategy, it is saying to its target customers that the reason they should choose the organization is because it offers higher quality products/services than its competitors.


An organization can choose any one or combination of the above strategies for better profits and market share.


Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_value_proposition
Management accounting by Garrison Noreen Brewer.

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