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Does it represent a sustainable point of difference? Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-2 Strategic Options Emotional/ Emotional/ Self-Expressive Self-Expressive Benefits Benefits Being Being Global Global Attribute/ Attribute/ Benefit Benefit Brand Brand Familiarity Familiarity Design Design Value Propositions © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Quality Quality Value Value Niche Niche Specialist Specialist Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Customer Customer Intimacy Intimacy Systems Systems Solutions Solutions Corporate Corporate Social Social Programs Programs Figure 8.1 PPT 8-3 Niche Specialist © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Concentrating Concentrating Resources Resources and and Energy Energy Competing Competing WithLimited Limited With Resources Resources Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Support Support aa Strategic Strategic Position Position PPT 8-4 Product Quality Dimensions Performance Conformance to specifications Features © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Customer support Process quality Aesthetic design Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Figure 8.3 PPT 8-5 Signals of High Quality • High quality needs to be communicated-quality dimensions © 2007 John Wiley & Sons • Communication by signals-attributes • Signals: – Tomato Juice—thickness – Cars—sound of door closing – Banking—professional attitude of people – Supermarkets—produce Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-6 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Stock Return Stock Market Reaction to Brand Equity (BE) & ROI Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Figure 8.2 The Value Option TheValue Value The Option Option Imperatives Imperatives © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Low-Cost Low-Cost Culture Culture No-Frills No-Frills Products/ Products/ Services Services Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Cost Advantage Operations Operations Scale Scale Economies Economies Figure 8.4 Value Value Perceptions Perceptions Experience Experience Curve Curve Effect Effect PPT 8-8 Creating a Cost Advantage (or Avoiding a Cost Disadvantage) • No-Frills Product/Service • Operations © 2007 John Wiley & Sons • Scale Economies • The Experience Curve Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-9 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Key Learnings • Business strategies usually cluster around a limited number of value propositions, such as superior attribute, appealing design, offering complete system solutions, social responsibility, a familiar brand, a superior customer relationship, a specialist niche, superior quality, and superior value The value proposition should be real, believed, feasible, relevant, and sustainable • A value proposition needs to be communicated effectively and supported by a cost advantage, which can be based on a no-frills offering, operations, scale economies, and/or the experience curve • Superior quality, which has been shown to drive stock return, has to be continuously addressed through processes and programs and transferred into quality perceptions Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-10 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ancillary Slides Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-11 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons “Ever since Morton’s put a little girl in a yellow slicker and declared, “When it rains, it pours,” no advertising person worth his or her salt has had any excuse to think of a product as having parity with anything.” -Malcolm MacDougal, Jordan Case McGrath Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-12 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” -Jack Welch, GE Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-13 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” -Mark Twain Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-14 “Be willing to make decisions That’s the most important quality in a good leader Don’t fall victim to what I call the ‘ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome.’ You must be willing to fire.” © 2007 John Wiley & Sons -T Boone Pickens Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-15 “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” © 2007 John Wiley & Sons - Andrew Carnegie Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-16 “Never follow the crowd.” © 2007 John Wiley & Sons - Bernard M Baruch Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8-17 ... attitude of people – Supermarkets—produce Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8- 6 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Stock Return Stock Market Reaction to Brand Equity (BE) & ROI Chapter - Alternative... WithLimited Limited With Resources Resources Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions Support Support aa Strategic Strategic Position Position PPT 8- 4 Product Quality Dimensions Performance Conformance... transferred into quality perceptions Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8- 10 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ancillary Slides Chapter - Alternative Value Propositions PPT 8- 11 © 2007 John Wiley & Sons