O salto no discurso...

E volto a Dolan e Simon em "Power Pricing", Hermann Simon é um dos meus heróis.

"1. Adopting a Profitability Mentality In the late 1970s, the most prominent strategic thinking of the day focused on the importance of market share. In the words of an extremely well-known Harvard Business Review article, "Market Share: A Key to Profitability," the mute to long-term profitability was seen to be through building market share - forgoing short-term profit if necessary, and reaping profits from the business as the market matured. "Cash cows" for the firm were those businesses which had a high market share in low-growth industries. [Moi ici: Se calhar, nesse tempo, em muitos sectores económicos, com pouca concorrência e competindo pelo preço, pela eficiência, se calhar tinha alguma defensabilidade] The environment of the 1990s requires a shift in this thinking. In one industry after another, the aggressive pursuit of market share has led to overcapacity, price cutting, and profits for nobody. The focus must shift from market share to a broader conception incorporating industry profitability. Price impacts not only market share, but also the size of the market and the value of a market share point. McKinsey has articulated this point well in its "Marketers' Metamorphosis," describing the dimensions of the "fundamental transformation" required of marketers in the 1990s. First among the dimensions of change is redefinition of objectives from market share to market surplus:

Industries are "smart" when participants all have an eye to enlarging the overall profit pie, which will be divided among players according to their competitive strength. This induces firms to keep "value" as the operant concept in customers' minds rather than "price." Many firms are still stuck in the market-share mindset."

What matters is not share of market, but share of scarce market profits "market surplus" will replace market share as the measure of success. Companies - and their marketers will take a much wider view of their industry.... They will think not just about their own profits, but also about maximizing both the total profits in their industry - the market surplus - and their companies' share of these profits."

Estamos a meio da segunda década do século XXI, já distantes dos anos 90 e ainda mais dos anos 70. No entanto, ainda temos tanta gente encalhada no market-share.

Tanta gente incapaz de dar aquele salto de um discurso baseado no preço, para um outro baseado no valor.
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O Evangelho do Valor custa a espalhar-se... mesmo em Mongo.