Firms can pursue either a cost advantage or a benefit advantage. In either case the firm has to create more value (B-C) than competitors. A firm then must determine a pricing policy to divide this value between consumer surplus and producer surplus. If a firm wants to increase market share, it has to create more consumer surplus (B-P) than its competitors. An alternative strategy is for the firm to increase profit margin by creating more producer surplus (P-C). It can be seen, therefore, that the main priority of management is to identify and determine products where value creation is possible. Only then is the division of such value into consumer and producer surplus considered. Thus pricing is usually seen as being a secondary consideration