terça-feira, junho 09, 2009

Clientes-alvo e proposta de valor: uma defesa da sua necessidade

Ontem, à procura de uma citação de Peter Drucker, voltei a consultar essa Biblia que mudou a minha vida, o livro "MANAGEMENT - Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices"
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Encontrei no capítulo 8 "The Power and Purpose of Objectives: The Marks & Spencer Story and Its Lesson" o seguinte texto:
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"Archimedes, one of the great scientists of antiquity, is reported to have said: “Give me a place to stand on, and I can lift the universe of its hinges.” The place to stand on is the area of concentration. It is the area which gives a business the leverage that lifts the universe off its hinges. The concentration decision is, therefore, a crucial decision. It converts in large measure, the definition of “what our business is” into meaningful operational commitment. It makes possible work on one’s mission and purpose. It is the foundation for effective strategy.
Wherever we find a business that is outstandingly successful, we will find that it has thought through the concentration alternatives and has made a concentration decision.
A small company needs the concentration decision even more than a big one. Its resources are limited and will produce no results unless concentrated.

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The concentration decision is highly risky. It is a genuine decision. It has to be tested again and again against the market; its dynamics, its trends, and its changes. Without concentration, marketing objectives—but also innovation objectives—are promises and good intentions rather than true goals. Without them, the resources of the business will not be allocated to performance.
The other major decision underlying marketing objectives is that on market standing. One common approach is to say, “We want to be the leader.” The other one is to say, “We don’t care what share of the market we have as long as sales go up.” Both sound plausible, but both are wrong.
Obviously, not everybody can be the leader. One has to decide in which segment of the market, with what product, what services, what values, one should be the leader. It does not do much good for a company’s sales to go up if it loses market share, that is, if the market expands much faster than the company’s sales do."

O que é isto senão uma apologia da necessidade de ter clientes-alvo e de ter uma proposta de valor?

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