Six Sigma Pricing Blog

Forum for Pricing Strategy and Operations

What Six Sigma Pricing Is and Is Not

How can six sigma apply to pricing strategy – Six Sigma is good only for repetitive processes?
How can quality tools change the way companies (should) look at their pricing organization which is often distributed in marketing, sales, supply chain, finance and other functions?
What is Six Sigma Pricing?
I look for the nearest soapbox whenever I get [...]

Who Owns Pricing?

The Pricing Czar is dead. He lies in state with other forgettable organizational models propounded by consultants and academics. The idea behind this model, an all-powerful person could enforce unquestionable discipline, simply does not fit with human nature. Historically, people have given in to autocracy but have always revolted against it to find themselves in [...]

Pricing Strategy and Pricing Operations

Pricing activities affect or are executed by different people in a company where a shared understanding of purpose is as critical as the lifeline of the company itself. It is surprising how many business leaders believe that the price of a product or service is just math done by or one or two people as [...]

Message in Six Sigma Pricing

Pricing is the #1 worry for business leaders but companies can have far more control over pricing than they may realize. Many companies have developed solid sales strategies—but without equally good pricing operations, those strategies by themselves will not add anything to the bottom line. The goal of pricing operations is to consistently control price [...]