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A packaging decision record

Write the offers and contents, the form and focus, who values what, the cost and competition conditions, and the check in separate fields.

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Figure 2A packaging decision record

A five-column worksheet for recording a packaging decision: the offers and their contents, the form and focus of each bundle, who values which parts, the cost and competition conditions, and the check that will show whether the structure works.Offers and contentsWhich packages exist,what is in each, andwhich parts are alsosold alone?Form and focusPure, mixed orunbundled? A pricebundle or a productbundle?Who values whatWhich segments valuewhich parts, howunevenly, and do bundlevalues vary?Cost and competitionMargins, marginalcosts, savings fromcombining: and howclose are rivals?CheckWhich take rates,upgrades or losseswill show it works,and when to look?A package without a stated reason cannot be reviewed. Write the reason before the price.

Source: Author's decision worksheet. The form and focus fields follow Stremersch and Tellis (2002), pp. 56-57; the valuation, cost and competition fields follow their propositions on pp. 62, 67-68; the segment question in the valuation field follows Bakos and Brynjolfsson (1999), pp. 1613 and 1625. The fields are reader inputs; no company data is supplied.

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Isoglu, S. (2026). A packaging decision record [Figure]. isoglu.com. https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-packaging-strategy-fig02/

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@misc{isoglu-2026-what-is-packaging-strategy-fig02,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{A packaging decision record}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Figure 2, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-packaging-strategy-fig02/},
  note = {From the essay {What is packaging strategy?}}
}
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  <figcaption>Figure 2: A packaging decision record. Source: Author&#39;s decision worksheet. The form and focus fields follow Stremersch and Tellis (2002), pp. 56-57; the valuation, cost and competition fields follow their propositions on pp. 62, 67-68; the segment question in the valuation field follows Bakos and Brynjolfsson (1999), pp. 1613 and 1625. The fields are reader inputs; no company data is supplied. <a href="https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-packaging-strategy-fig02/">View exhibit</a>.</figcaption>
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