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Assessing Price Sensitivity

Price sensitivity is a tricky subject to interpret correctly – doubly so in the tight timeframes common to current diligence windows. I’ve seen a lot of consulting reports that I believe misinterpret price sensitivity – either overstating or understating price in a ranking of decision makers’ Drivers of Choice. The importance of price in decision making is a critical question in any…

Diligence Methods to Measure Price and Price Sensitivity, and the Opportunity to Improve Margins

By Mark Stein

Most commercial diligence projects will query the channel and the end-customers to measure price sensitivity. Most CIMs will have a graph indicating the degree to which customers are, or are not, sensitive to price – and suggesting room for margin enhancement. However, relying on customers’ or the channel’s expression or “vote” on price sensitivity can lead to false commercial diligence…