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Glossary Entries
Word(s)	Definition	Image	Caption	Link	Source
attribute	An inherent characteristic or quality of some object.
benefit	A result or outcome associated with consuming that product or service.
bias	To exhibit or characterize by bias or prejudgement.
commoditization	A product becomes indistinguishable from others like it and consumers buy on price alone.
commoditized	Competitors believe they are delivering similar products with similar service levels.
competitive advantage	An advantage over competitors allowing it to generate more sales and retain more customers than the competition.
competitor-centered firms	Firms whose moves center on competitors’ moves and actions.
customer perception	What the customer thinks about a company, not what it actually offers.
customer value	The customer’s sense of what benefits they get from a firm relative to the price they pay.
disequity	The current offering is unsatisfactory to the customer on this attribute.
inside view	The assets, resources, capabilities, and knowledge that the company brings to bear in producing value for its customers.
instrumental value	Value as a means to another end or value.
laddering	Drills down into deeper reasons underlying customers’ interest in the attributes of a product or service.
Low awareness	Attributes that may have value to customers but are largely unknown.
market driven	Focus is jointly on competitors and customers.
market segment	An identifiable group that shares one or more characteristic.
miscommunicated equity	The customer does not really understand the attribute or benefit and how effectively we offer it.
Negative value	Value with which customers are dissatisfied.
nonvalued equity	The attribute is unimportant to the customer.
outside view	The customer’s perception of a company’s value and competitors’ values.
points of difference	The product delivers substantial, unique value to customers in the form of superior performance.
RCA	Resources, capabilities, and assets.
Strategic bundles	Aggregations of the firm’s internal attributes often invisible to the market, which have the potential of meeting current and future customer needs and values.
Thinking deeply	Recognizing that there are deeper values or problems that drive customers’ decision making.
unleveraged equity	The value sought is not effectively provided but it possibly could be provided.