Determining the optimal pricing and bundling of features for a new educational product
Sommersemester 2020 - Studentisches Start-up Projekt
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Goal
The purchase of educational products largely depends on the ability and willingness of the educational institutions to pay for new didactic material. In addition, it is necessary to examine customers´ feature and function expectations from digital products that are anticipated to possibly replace existing printed materials. Therefore, the goal of this project was surveying vocational institutions in the D-A-CH region and to deduct the optimal pricing and bundling strategy for a new digital learning product.
Methodology
The project team contacted a large number of decision makers and teachers of schools in the D-A-CH region. Through web-based surveys, the team conducted a Conjoint Analysis, combined with the Van-Westendorp's price sensitivity meter in order to gain insights into customer needs and pricing and bundling preferences.
Results
Through an analysis of the gathered data, the team identified different levels of the optimal price in the surveyed countries. Equally, also preferences for product features showed local variations, which need to be taken into account for the sales and marketing of the product. Overall, the survey shows that the surveyed schools certainly want to embrace digitalization, but it is crucial to understand on which stipulations.
Cooperation Partner
FESTO Didactic SE
Rechbergstraße 3
73770 Denkendorf
Deutschland
www.festo.com
Contact Person
Dr. Ute Gebhard
ute.gebhard@festo.com
Student Team
Philipp Krb
Matthias Bruckner
Miroslava Palesova
Florian Pühringer
Elisabeth Stüber
Ann-Kristin Schnell
Yana Reznyk
Project Managers
Caroline Fabian, M.Sc.
Shtefi Mladenovska, M.Sc.
Klaus Marhold, Ph.D.