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Value-based management
Value-based management (VBM) is a tool for maximising the value of a corporation.
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Value-based management vs Value-based marketing
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Value-based marketing
Add value to products and services to improve profitability.
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Use VBM to set goals, evaluate strategy and performance, allocate capital, design incentives, communicate with investors and value businesses or projects. Traditional accounting measures such as earnings per share or return on equity can report profit without charging fully for the opportunity cost of invested capital. VBM makes that charge explicit.
Increase the customer value and profitability of a product or service.
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Value-based management
- Build a short value driver tree for the decision and assign each driver to an accountable owner. Review how operating choices change future cash flow, capital employed and risk; the conversation is more useful than debating a single valuation decimal.
- Start with the strategic decision and its operating value drivers; do not let pursuit of a theoretically exact valuation obscure the practical choice.
- Use only accounting adjustments that materially improve economic interpretation. Excessive complexity weakens understanding and ownership.
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- A value model is only as credible as its forecasts, discount rate, time horizon and boundary. Do not turn uncertain assumptions into rigid targets or create incentives that sacrifice long term capability and stakeholder trust for near term financial appearance.
Value-based marketing
- Use observed choices and structured trade offs as well as direct questions. Then connect each segment’s most valued outcomes to an offer, proof and price that the organisation can deliver profitably.
- A packaging supplier used the method in a highly fragmented market. Buyers ranged from organisations purchasing ordinary boxes and tape to online retailers and manufacturers spending heavily on packaging. Their value did not lie only in the material: ordering convenience, online access, help desk service and delivery speed also mattered.
- The analysis showed which unmet needs customers valued and how priorities differed by segment. The company used that evidence to commit distinct offers and develop services around the most valuable gaps, supporting its rise to market leadership.
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- Customers may struggle to explain what they value, but that does not justify inventing answers for them. Triangulate stated needs with choices, behaviour and economics, and avoid using “value” as a euphemism for extracting the highest possible price.
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