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Value-based management vs Value-based marketing

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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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Strategic
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Marketing

Value-based marketing

Add value to products and services to improve profitability.

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Tactical
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Choice logic

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Value-based management

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.

Value-based marketing

Increase the customer value and profitability of a product or service.

Extracted signals

Strengths, limits, and pitfalls.

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.

Watch for

  • 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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Application bridge

Contracts Management PlanContracts Management Plan Purpose. Use this plan to define how programme-level contracts will be administered from award through closure. Its purpose is to ensure that contracted deliverables and services meet cost, schedule, benefit and quality requirements while both buyer and seller fulfil their obligations. Application. The plan builds on the procurement management plan and may be maintained aProgram Quality ChecklistProgram Quality Checklist Purpose. Use this checklist to gather consistent evidence about the quality of programme deliverables, services, management outcomes and cost or schedule performance. Application. It can structure a quality review meeting or inform questions for sponsors, customers, beneficiaries and end users. Tailor each verification question to a defined requirement or acceptance criteKnowledge Management PlanKnowledge Management Plan Purpose. Use this plan to connect programme participants with useful knowledge, subject-matter expertise and the information created across components. Effective knowledge management reduces reinvention and duplicate work, helps people find proven answers quickly and reserves scarce expert attention for problems that genuinely require new thinking. Application. Prepare thProcurement Management PlanProcurement Management Plan Purpose. Use this plan to decide what the programme should obtain externally and how each acquisition will move from need to an awarded agreement. It covers facilities, goods, materials and external resources, together with the sourcing, solicitation, evaluation and contractual methods appropriate to each requirement. Application. Prepare the plan early because procurem