> actually get quoted a price for that service. I might choose to go across town if it saved me $40K
I have been working as a software consultant for decades now and always have a menu price ready.
Even with this menu pricing, my customers still need my help in figuring out what they need from the menu.
If my customers already knew what they needed to solve their problems, I have 0 value to add as a consultant - at that point, they just need to either hire staff/developers to execute on their requirements.
If I broke my hip today, how exactly would a menu of hip related items help me compare costs?
How would I even begin to know which items from the menu apply to my situation without having some idea what is involved in fixing a broken hip?
Do I need a MRI? XRay? Both? Which sections of the hip? We even have not started on diagnosis.
Price transparency is only useful when one knows exactly what is needed.
You pretty much have to be a doctor to shop prices unless you're doing an elective surgery where time is on your side and you can do some research as you wait and shop.
I'm not sure anyone's doing price comparison when their wife's on the delivery table and has just had some complications.
I have been working as a software consultant for decades now and always have a menu price ready.
Even with this menu pricing, my customers still need my help in figuring out what they need from the menu.
If my customers already knew what they needed to solve their problems, I have 0 value to add as a consultant - at that point, they just need to either hire staff/developers to execute on their requirements.
If I broke my hip today, how exactly would a menu of hip related items help me compare costs?
How would I even begin to know which items from the menu apply to my situation without having some idea what is involved in fixing a broken hip?
Do I need a MRI? XRay? Both? Which sections of the hip? We even have not started on diagnosis.
Price transparency is only useful when one knows exactly what is needed.
You pretty much have to be a doctor to shop prices unless you're doing an elective surgery where time is on your side and you can do some research as you wait and shop.
I'm not sure anyone's doing price comparison when their wife's on the delivery table and has just had some complications.