How Does Pricing Analytics Impact a Company’s Pricing Strategy with Neil Biehn

Impact Pricing - Un pódcast de Mark Stiving, Ph.D.

Categorías:

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:  Understand how Data Science helps in pricing  Find out the disconnect between product managers and data scientists in terms of pricing a product   Discover why pricing work better with data analytics  allowing you to compare and assess different strategies     Neil Biehn is the Vice President of Business Analytics at Siemens Healthineers. He has over a decade of experience in analytics, segmentation, sales effectiveness, and pricing optimization. Neil’s specialties include Analytics, Segmentation, Revenue Management, Price Optimization, Operations Research, Willingness-to-Pay, and Data Science.    In this episode, Neil shares with us how Data Science helps in pricing.  He also deep dives into why pricing works better with data analytics allowing you to compare and assess different pricing strategies.    “Profit as a guide for price is limited and should be used only if it is in line with the strategy of a company. You are willing to lose customers to maintain a profit margin, ultimately, your customers don’t care about your profits, they care about the price of your services or materials or any products. Let Finance worry about running your profits.”  – Neil Biehn   Get COV’s Pricing Metrics: The Most Important Pricing Decision in a Subscription Business Course at https://www.championsofvalue.com      Topics Covered:     01:22 – How his path in Pricing started  04:38 – A description of his current job    05:45 – How does he describe the relationship of  “business people’ in an organization with ‘data science people’  10:17 – Logical comparison of the engineering team with the data science team  13:40 – A look at one case study of coming up with good pricing at Siemens  19:25 – How does he help solve a company’s price erosion problem  20:24 – His one valuable pricing advice   22:10 – How it looks like finding a solution to problems the data science way     Key Takeaway:  “If you have data and have the facts, why wouldn’t you use it? Every single data point you have about price, every purchase someone makes at a price point will give you an unbelievable wealth of information and you should use it.” — Neil Biehn    People / Resources Mentioned:  The Price Advantage by Walter Baker and Craig C. Zawada  PROS    Connect with Neil Biehn:  LinkedIn  Connect with Mark Stiving:  Email: [email protected]   LinkedIn   Twitter 

Visit the podcast's native language site