Running head: IMPLEMENTING PRICING STRATEGY Implementing Pricing Strategies Janaina Logan Strayer University Strategic Market Pricing – MKT 402 Professor Charla Session-Reed March 18‚ 2011 Abstract Implementing pricing strategy decisions requires properly addressing organizational issues related to how decisions are made and enforced as well as motivational issues that encourage managers to engage in more profitable behaviors. Pricing decisions are strategic and
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Principles of Management Course – 102 Title: A case study on Southwest Airlines management process. Submitted To Group – K Roll Name Q: Name at least two things that Southwest is doing efficiently. Name at least two things that Southwest is doing effectively. In what ways do efficiency and effectiveness support each other at Southwest? In what ways do they contradict each other? Answer: Efficiency at Southwest Airlines: Efficiency or being efficient in business terms means
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tumultuous battle with other Texas-based airlines‚ Southwest Airlines inaugurated its initial flight (Inkpen 2008). As one of the United States’ new low-cost carriers‚ Southwest Airlines predominantly distributed “short haul‚ high frequency‚ point-to-point‚ low-fare service” (Keller 2008) serving “64 cities in 32 states” on the wings of Boeing 737 aircraft (Thompson 2008). In each successive year since 1973 Southwest has turned a profit (Keller 2008). Southwest Airlines “revenues of $9.8 billion
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Market structures and pricing Revenues Consumers * Inverse demand curve gives willingness-to-pay * Benefit consumer(s) derive(s) from additional good; * Area under inverse demand curve measures total willingness-to-pay‚ total benefit or total surplus. * Maximum price I can charge as producer determined by inverse demand function * Marginal revenues; revenue of next unit I sell Strategies * Profit maximization * Marginal profits equal to 0 (MR=MC) *
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“Pricing Techniques” Studied in- Mobile Industry Company- Nokia Background of the study: Pricing Techniques: are the methods adopted by a firm to set its selling price. It usually depends on the firm’s average costs‚ and on the customer’s perceived value of the product in comparison to his or her perceived value of the competing products. Different pricing methods place varying degree of emphasis on selection‚ estimation‚ and evaluation of costs‚ comparative analysis‚ and market
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1. What has been Southwest’s traditional pricing strategy? Why has this pricing strategy been so successful throughout the airline’s first three decades? Traditionally‚ Southwest used a low-price strategy. They were known as always offering the cheapest flights. The air line did not serve meals‚ had no assigned seats‚ no electronic entertainment‚ and no retirement plans for employees. Because Southwest had such lower costs‚ they were able to crush competitors. This pricing strategy was
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Pricing objectives are goals that describe what a firm wants to achieve through pricing. Pricing objectives must be stated explicitly‚ and the statement should include the time frame for accomplishing them. There are six stages of setting prices. They are developing pricing objective‚ assessing the target market’s evaluation of price‚ evaluating competitors’ prices‚ choosing a basis for pricing‚ selecting a pricing strategy‚ and determining a specific price. Cost-based pricing is adding a
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attribute the success of Southwest Airlines? 2. How significant is the 10 to 15 minutes turnaround time of Southwest’s aircraft in terms of savings in investment and utilization of its aircraft compared to competitors? 3. What challenges is Southwest facing in the future and how should they meet those challenges? 4. What should their business and operations strategy be for the future? 5. Has Gary Kelly‚ the new Southwest CEO since 2004‚ been able to maintain the profitability of Southwest Airlines while insuring
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1. " Global Transfer Pricing: A Practical Guide for Managers "‚ Ralph Drtina‚ Jane L. Reimers‚ S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal‚ v74n2‚ Spring 2009. Transfer Pricing Article Summary The authors give a beneficial guide for managers for selecting and implementing a transfer pricing policy. According to the article‚ transfer pricing are the amounts charged for goods and services exchanged between divisions of the same company. In a multinational company strict international tax laws regulate
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Statement: The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride‚ and Company Spirit. (source: Southwest.com website) Vision statement: Our vision is to expand our locations both domestic and overseas by being the largest and most profitable airline company to achieve both short and long-haul carriers efficiently and with low cost. Also to be an airline carrier that has the most productive workforce
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