Alinhar operações e estratégia, o mosaico - again

Um excelente artigo da Booz and Company "The Capable Supply Chain Linked with Strategy for Superior Performance".
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Um artigo que chama a atenção para o alinhamento, para o mosaico que ajuda a fazer a diferença:
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"When an organization’s supply chain capabilities are directly aligned with its way to play (Moi ici: "They know well the type of company they are, they focus on their most profitable products and services, and they consistently target the preferences of their prime customers and markets.") , the company enjoys a coherence premium—that is, superior performance and an extremely strong market position. Unfortunately, this coherence is all too rare. More often, companies’ strategic thrusts are divorced from their operational capabilities; as a result, supply chain organizations (and their executives) must contend with conflicting demands that either can’t be reconciled or substantially drive up costs."
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"This premium (also called “essential advantage”) is the logical outcome of having the appropriate supply chain capabilities—interconnected processes, tools, people, knowhow, and organization—to drive asset-, technology-, and scale-based performance improvements that go beyond what others in the industry are able to achieve.
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Companies often fail to marry strategic goals with supply chain  architecture, leaving supply chain chiefs to struggle with a myriad of often conflicting demands from manufacturing, marketing, sales,  engineering, and procurement.
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With little agreement within the organization—and no way to make or manage trade-offs—issues of cost, customization speed, and price, among many others, are never addressed. But when a company is strategically coherent, the supply chain can be a linchpin of outsized performance."
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Depois, o artigo apresenta o conceito de puretone.
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Por fim, algo de ainda mais interessante na secção "Linking Capabilities to Archetypes" os autores introduzem um conceito a que chamam "lever" (alavanca) e que não é outra coisa senão aquilo a que chamamos processo, neste blogue. O que os autores tentam transmitir é o conceito de abordagem por processo.
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É comparar este esquema do artigo:

Com este nosso gráfico:

"These levers can be segmented into four types based on their role in the supply chain life cycle: the right to win, which helps the company prepare for success; design-driven efficiency, which involves developing advantageous supply chain management systems and tools; structure and processes, which covers the critical decisions about supply chain infrastructure;
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Neste postal reuni as hiperligações para um conjunto de reflexões sobre a possibilidade de recorrer aos processos contexto, processos que não são críticos para a execução da estratégia, para retirar recursos deles e usá-los nos processos críticos para a execução da estratégia.
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Nesta figura do artigo podemos exemplificar, a figura base é:

As setas vermelhas identificam processos-contexto onde se estão a desperdiçar recursos que podem ser aplicados nas setas verdes, que identificam processos-críticos que estão a precisar de recursos: