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Georg Tacke is the CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners and an expert in pricing, marketing, and sales strategy.

Known for: Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

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Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

entrepreneurship·10 min read

This book explains how successful companies integrate pricing into the product development process from the very beginning. It presents a framework for designing products around what customers are willing to pay, rather than setting prices after development. Drawing on real-world case studies, the authors show how to avoid common innovation pitfalls and ensure that new products generate both customer value and business profitability.

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Designing the Product Around the Price

The hardest truth in innovation is this: most companies design first, price later. It’s a habit so deep that few even question it. But every year we see heartbreaking failures—brilliant technology, clever design, immense investment—only to watch customers walk away because the product doesn’t fit th...

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Understanding the Four Innovation Failures

In our experience, innovation failure patterns are startlingly consistent across industries. We categorize them into four archetypes: feature shocks, minivations, hidden gems, and undeads. Each reveals what goes wrong when price and customer willingness are ignored. A feature shock happens when a c...

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Georg Tacke is the CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners and an expert in pricing, marketing, and sales strategy.

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