Customer Value Management

Customer Value Analysis:
Your Business Through Your Customers' Eyes.

Customer Value Analysis (CVA®) – a proven tool to measure how customers
perceive your offerings against competitors. Developed over 40 years of research – used to improve the competitiveness of over 2,000 businesses worldwide.
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What it means to be customer centric.

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Identify your Competitive Position

  • Identify customer buying criteria, preferences, competitive strengths and weaknesses.
  • Set urgent priorities for action.
customers

Know what customers value most

  • Pinpoint your core strengths and weaknesses.
  • Identify the improvements that your customers value most.
Value

Analyse the dimensions of customer value

  • Understand your relative quality and relative price.
  • Analyse sensitivity and optimise your offering accordingly.

How CVA® works.

What is customer value?

  • Customer value is the perceived quality of product, service, and brand image at a given price, relative to competitors.
  • It is the ultimate test of competitiveness – showing if you deliver superior value, win share, and sustain profitability.
  • Customer Value Analysis (CVA®) quantifies how customers see you – and where to improve.

CVA® quantifies the customers' view of purchase decision criteria relative to competing offers – giving businesses a comprehensive understanding of their value proposition in the market. Unlike standard customer satisfaction surveys, CVA® measures how you compare on every criterion that drives buying decisions, not just how customers feel about you in isolation.

What the customer get's from you, not what you get from the customer.

Value Map

  • Evaluate your overall market position on price versus quality.
  • Understand how customers perceive your business and competitors in a specific segment.
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Value Map

The CVA® Value Map plots relative quality against relative price, with the Fair Value Line showing how customers trade off cost and quality. Positioned below the line, you deliver superior value; above it, inferior. A clear benchmark for pricing power and competitiveness.

Attribute Chart

  • Evaluate strengths and weaknesses against customer priorities.
  • Unveil the importance of each purchase criterion and your performance versus competitors.
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Attribute Chart

The CVA® Attribute Chart compares customer buying criteria by importance and performance. It highlights where improvements will have the biggest impact, where to maintain strengths, and where to cut unnecessary effort. A direct guide to focus resources where customers care most.

Impact Cases

Customer Value Management
Customer Value Management
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Winning in Green Aluminium

A metals producer explored entry into the U.S. low-carbon aluminium market. pims.ai surveyed buyers and evaluated competitor sustainability propositions, shaping a robust, data-driven entry strategy that leveraged clear strengths and avoided costly missteps.

Customer Value Management
Customer Value Management
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Upmarket Brand Repositioning

A car manufacturer needed to reposition a mid-range model. pims.ai applied CVA® and PIMS® benchmarking to identify key brand shifts, guiding design and marketing decisions that enabled a credible and profitable move into the premium segment.

Customer Value Management
Customer Value Management
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Expanding Product Portfolio

A consumer durables company planned entry into a new market. pims.ai quantified the value and quality advantages needed for top-3 market share, enabling fact-based entry decisions and tailored launch strategies across global markets including USA, China, and Europe.

Go left
go right

pims.ai helps to bring about change by providing a clear picture of our perceived value position relative to our closest competitors, our core strengths and key improvement areas.

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Global Automotive Company, Germany

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