Many leaders assume that pricing is nothing more than a technical and tactical discipline based on four assumptions: that pricing is a zero-sum game, sellers should extract maximum value, markets set prices, and one "right" price exists. But this is a flawed premise. Pricing is a strategic game based on collaborative growth, value sharing, dynamic opportunities, and strategy.

Whether you are a CEO, executive leadership, or part of the team responsible for innovation and new product development, this book is for you, with special sections and checklist-driven summaries to make monetizing innovation part of your company's DNA. Illustrative case studies show how some of the world's best innovative companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Porsche, Optimizely, Draeger, Swarovski and big pharmaceutical companies have used principles outlined in this book.

Updated throughout to reflect changes in the global pricing environment and advances in McKinsey's pricing knowledge, this Second Edition covers a host of new topics including software and information products pricing, lifecycle pricing, custom-configured products pricing, pricing of high-count product lines, pricing in distributed sales environments, and tiered products and services pricing. Also, the building of a sustainable pricing capability and a high-performing pricing infrastructure is covered in much greater detail than ever before.

With emphasis on translating pricing theory into real improvements and bottom-line performance, the Second Edition of The Price Advantage is designed to give today's CEOs and business managers a competitive advantage in any economy.

Joanne Smith is well known throughout the pricing discipline as a thought leader and The Price and Profit Playbook bring her expertise to the forefront. Starting with the basics and continuing through the organizational and cultural changes necessary to improve pricing, this playbook will be an invaluable resource to lead managers to profitable growth

Pricing can make or break a SaaS company. Get it right and watch your product click with your market, dropping acquisition costs and exploding growth. Get it wrong and join the graveyard of great SaaS products that never turned into great SaaS businesses.

The Pricing Roadmap teaches you how to design pricing models that both your customers and your sales team will love. Learn how to:

• Create packaging that makes your chief of sales high-five your chief of product
• Pick pricing metrics that drive demand and expansion
• Tap into every part of your customers’ budget
• Validate new pricing before launch and migrate old customers

Written in the trenches of helping hundreds of B2B SaaS businesses, The Pricing Roadmap will help you pour gasoline on the fire of your pricing. Ditch the guesswork with this step-by-step guide to designing SaaS pricing that grows your business—whether you’re a startup, prerevenue venture, or an established market leader.