By: Ed Heskins, Head of Pricing, Europe To be in business is to be in competition. Few, if any, businesses operate in a vacuum, and even if your products and services are highly differentiated, customers will often seek alternatives to compare you with. In this way, pricing against your competition is as challenging as [...]
By Kirk Jackisch: President, Iris Pricing Solutions As we venture into the second half of 2023, businesses continue to face a range of pricing challenges that require careful navigation and strategic planning – covered in our previous article, The Current State of Pricing. The landscape is influenced by factors such as inflation, interest rates, [...]
A note from Iris Pricing Solutions President: Kirk Jackisch As we approach the end of 2022, it is clear that pricing leaders will need to navigate a very unpredictable market…perhaps more than ever before. With this uncertainty, leaders must employ resilient, proactive, and competitive pricing strategies. What We Saw Across Industries Almost all companies [...]
About the Device Our client, an established manufacturer of syringes, had developed a prototype digital injection device designed for use in clinical trials. This data-enabled injection device would automatically capture injection data without interfering with the injection device's usability. Specifically, the device would capture the start/stop time, completion and device ID. The target customers [...]
By: Ben Garden, Director of Analytics, Iris Pricing Solutions There are significant benefits to working with a team who has high-level pricing analytical skills and can use your company's data to inform pricing and create new pricing opportunities, especially in the areas of e-commerce and competitive intelligence. Leveraging your data and analytics to make [...]
Price actions are not unique Companies are constantly testing the extent of their pricing power. Faced with rising costs for materials, transportation, and workers, companies are charging more for products from metal fasteners to Oreo cookies. The primary response to inflation is to become more efficient, but inflation is currently so high, that productivity [...]
By Craig Singleton, Director of Restaurant Strategy, Iris Pricing Solutions Spring is here and it's the ideal time to re-evaluate menus and reconsider pricing. Producing new menu items or switching to a seasonal menu necessitates a consideration of current pricing. Many large, multi-unit restaurant brands procrastinate on pricing out of fear that an increase [...]
Last year we asked the question Can You Protect Your Business and Clients from Cost Shocks? While we may have all hoped that the surge in the cost of raw materials and Pandemic-related disruptions would dissipate, the truth is that we're now in a significant period of inflation with most companies needing to increase [...]
Iris Pricing Solutions has launched a special report entitled ‘Pricing and Digitization: Parallel Journeys to Success and Survival’, demonstrating how pricing, marketing, and sales can benefit from better data capture and use that data to increase customer segmentation, improve value propositions, and better understand consumer behavior. Companies in the B2B sector are increasingly employing [...]
This pricing transformation provided $3 million in short-term pricing opportunities, and $10 million in long-term margin improvement opportunities. The client is a private equity company that manufactures and sells retail home design products. These products are sold through big box home improvement stores, smaller hardware stores, and independent home design and décor stores. The challenge: [...]
