How is the consumer value framework useful?

Understanding what your customers truly value helps you differentiate your offering and helps you grow, gain share, and price at a premium. Elements of Value identifies what matters most and helps you deliver it effectively.

Consumer Elements of Value®

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The value of any product or service always lies in the eye of the beholder, but that doesn’t mean the value is unknowable. In fact, universal building blocks of value exist, and leading B2B and B2C businesses are built on them. The Elements of Value framework helps you pinpoint what matters most to your customers so you know where to focus your product or service strategy.

Based on more than 30 years of research, we’ve identified dozens of distinct elements of value and quantified their linkages to growth, customer loyalty, market share, pricing and revenue. This empirical approach has helped countless clients of ours make decisions, grow revenue and boost their NPS® scores. See what it can do for your company.

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Bain Partner Eric Almquist discusses 30 elements of value that are at work in the marketplace.

What to Expect

What to Expect

How is the consumer value framework useful?

Product differentiation

Understanding the functional and emotional aspects of your product’s value elevates its status and enhances brand equity

How is the consumer value framework useful?

Revenue growth

Strong performance on multiple Elements of Value correlates closely with higher and sustained revenue growth

How is the consumer value framework useful?

Pricing power

Delivering on more elements than your competitors gives you greater leeway in setting a competitive price

 

As consumers' preferences and behaviors change it can become difficult to understand precisely what motivates their buying decisions. Elements of Value provides a robust, deeply researched framework that helps you assess the many objective and subjective criteria that influence consumers' choices. That clear-eyed understanding enables you to invest in the features, innovations and other attributes that make your product or service speak to what consumers really value. 

Experience

Experience

1,300

Segmentation projects around the world across industries

Client Results

How is the consumer value framework useful?
How is the consumer value framework useful?

Consumer Products

Food Co. jump-starts growth with return to core brands

We helped a food company pull itself out of the red and into the black after years of slumping sales and vanishing market share.

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Insights

How is the consumer value framework useful?

Consumer Elements of Value®

The Power of Delivering Elements of Value® in Consumer Products

Brands can thrive by defining, measuring and improving the elements of their value proposition.

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How is the consumer value framework useful?

Brand Strategy

Three Elements of Value® for Consumers Take Precedence During a Pandemic

Companies’ response to the coronavirus needs to deliver these three values.

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How is the consumer value framework useful?

Consumer Elements of Value®

Eric Almquist: The Elements of Value for B2B Companies

B2B companies can use the elements of value as a compass when deciding where to add value to their propositions.

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How is the consumer value framework useful?

Sustainable Food Systems

Purpose-Led Brands Can Reshape the Consumer Goods Industry if They Can Scale …

A new generation of purpose-led brands promises to improve the world by offering consumers ethical, sustainable purchase choices, but their success depends on scale.

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Eric Almquist Advisory Partner Boston

Andreas Dullweber Partner Munich

Jamie Cleghorn Partner Chicago

Lori Sherer Partner San Francisco

Andy Pierce Partner Chicago

Laura Beaudin Partner San Francisco

Brian Dennehy Expert Partner Seattle

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Brand and Customer Strategy

Brand and Customer Strategy

Forge a strong connection between brand strategy and business strategy

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Customer Insights & Segmentation

Customer Insights & Segmentation

Build the most effective customer segmentation capabilities—those that allow your company to allocate scarce resources where they'll deliver the highest payoff.

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Net Promoter System℠

Net Promoter System℠

Focus on earning the passionate loyalty of customers while inspiring the energy, enthusiasm and creativity of employees to accelerate profitable, sustainable organic growth.

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B2B Elements of Value®

B2B Elements of Value®

How can you avoid the commoditization trap? By understanding what each customer set values most. B2B Elements of Value is a five-level, 40-element framework that delineates the objective and subjective criteria that determine what really motivates customers to buy.