Rethinking Value in Healthcare & MedTech

2026-02-05T10:17:32-05:00Categories: Crisis Management, Operational Excellence, Pricing Analytics, Pricing and Selling, Pricing Changes, Pricing Management, Pricing Optimization, Pricing Research, Pricing Transformation, Pricing Value|

Healthcare and MedTech leaders are entering 2026 in a very different decision-making environment than even two years ago. Inflationary pressure has cooled, but scrutiny over every dollar has intensified, particularly around new technologies that promise better outcomes but require organizational change to adopt. In this context, features alone are no longer enough to win [...]

What We’re Hearing From Clients as They Plan for 2026

2026-01-22T15:36:29-05:00Categories: Crisis Management, Operational Excellence, Pricing Analytics, Pricing and Selling, Pricing Changes, Pricing Management, Pricing Optimization, Pricing Research, Pricing Transformation, Pricing Value|

By: Ben Garden, Managing Director, Iris Pricing Solutions Across dozens of conversations from CFOs to pricing leaders to strategy teams, one theme keeps surfacing: Uncertainty is slowing decisions, but growth expectations haven’t slowed at all. For many organizations, 2024-2025 felt like managing through fog. Leaders are being asked to deliver margin, hit aggressive revenue [...]

Is Global Trade Making Pricing Strategy Impossible to Navigate?

2025-11-25T12:20:51-05:00Categories: Crisis Management, Inflation Pricing, Operational Excellence, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Management, Tariff Pricing Strategy|

By: Ben Garden, Managing Director, Iris Pricing Solutions What was once speculative has now become an active and fast-evolving chapter in global trade. In April 2025, the United States announced a new tariff framework that included a baseline 10% import duty, alongside reciprocal tariffs targeting 57 countries. As of April 9, some of these tariffs [...]

5 Steps to Improving your Pricing Strategy during COVID-19 : Value of 1%

2020-10-05T12:04:44-04:00Categories: Crisis Management, Customer Intimacy, Differentiation Strategies, Industry Examples, Operational Excellence, Pricing Optimization, Product Leadership, Value Disciplines|Tags: , , , |

Pricing is the single most powerful lever a company has for boosting profitability. Yet, most organizations devote much more time and effort to cost-cutting than to improving pricing. If the average company captured 1% more in price, without any change in volume and costs, profit would climb by 12.5%, which is a substantial increase. [...]

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