Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Written by Venkadesh Narayanan | Jul 28, 2020 7:40:07 AM

Surprising rules for successful monetization Innovation is the most important driver of growth. Today, more than ever, companies need to innovate to survive. But successful innovation measured in dollars and cents is a very hard target to hit. Companies obsess over being creative and innovative and spend significant time and expense in designing and building products, yet struggle to monetize them: 72% of innovations fail to meet their financial targets or fail entirely. Many companies have come to accept that a high failure rate, and the billions of dollars lost annually, is just the cost of doing business. Monetizing Innovations argues that this is tragic, wasteful, and wrong. Radically improving the odds that your innovation will succeed is just a matter of removing the guesswork. That happens when you put customer demand and willingness to pay in the driver seat when you design the product around the price. It s a new paradigm, and that opens the door to true game change: You can stop hoping to monetize, and start knowing that you will. The authors at Simon Kucher know what they re talking about. As the world s premier pricing and monetization consulting services company, with 800 professionals in 30 cities around the globe, they have helped clients ranging from massive pharmaceuticals to fast-growing startups find success. In Monetizing Innovation, they distil the lessons of thirty years and over 10,000 projects into a practical, nine-step approach. Whether you are a CEO, executive leadership, or part of the team responsible for innovation and new product development, this book is for you, with special sections and checklist-driven summaries to make monetizing innovation part of your company s DNA. Illustrative case studies show how some of the world s best innovative companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Porsche, Optimizely, Draeger, Swarovski and big pharmaceutical companies have used principles outlined in this book. A direct challenge to the status quo spray and pray style of innovation, Monetizing Innovation presents a practical approach that can be adopted by any organization, in any industry. Most monetizing innovation failure point home. Now more than ever, companies must rethink the practices that have lost countless billions of dollars. Monetizing Innovation presents a new way forward, and a clear promise: Go from hope to certainty.

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price | Madhavan Ramanujam | Georg Tacke

         

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How innovators leave billions on the table: a tale of two cars 

Chapter 2: Feature shocks, minivations, hidden gems and undeads: the four flavors of monetizing innovation failure 

Chapter 3: Why good people get it wrong 

Chapter 4: Have the "willingness to pay talk" early: you can't prioritize without it

Chapter 5: Don't default to a one-price-fits-all solution: like it or not, your customers are different 

Chapter 6: In designing products, don't regard packaging and bundling as afterthoughts Chapter 7: Go beyond the flat price: 5 powerful monetization models

Chapter 8: Price low for market share or high for premium branding? Pick the winning pricing strategy

Chapter 9: From hoping to knowing: build an outside-in business case 

Chapter 10: The innovation won't speak for itself: you must communicate the value

Chapter 11. Use behavioral pricing tactics to persuade and sell: sometimes your customers will behave irrationally 

Chapter 12: Maintain your price integrity: avoid knee-jerk re-pricing 

Chapter 13: Learning from the best: successful innovations designed around the price

Chapter 14: Implementing the "designing the product around the price" innovation process


LINK FOR THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.in/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product-ebook/dp/B01F4DYY1I