Pricing for New Products
Pricing strategies specify market needs that may be served by different price offerings. The pricing strategies of the company are duly related to market strategies that eventually come to dominate both the overall strategy and the spirit of the company. Pricing strategies deal with matters such as number and diversity of products, product innovations, product scope, and product design. The implementation of pricing strategies requires cooperation among different groups including finance, research and development, the corporate staff, and marketing. This chapter guides managers as to how to manage the concept pricing process for new product development effectively by the customer centric companies through mapping the consumer perceptions about their needs and expected products. In this chapter, the author describes how companies get customer centric pricing strategy, product pricing, and tactical moves in a way that help the firms to get the competitive advantage and build profits in the future.