"And the critical competence moves from production competence to relationship competence"

"Customers were - and basically still are - described in economic theory as an abstract congregation called 'the market'. They were the recipients at the end of a chain which moved raw materials, which gradually had 'value' added to them, until they reached the buyers.
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Thus was born the idea of product differentiation and market segmentation, which was a first step towards a new paradigm. But it was an adjustment within the old paradigm, in which the product remained in focus, in which the critical competence was production, and in which the customer was seen as the receiver at the end of a 'value chain'.
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The movement from craft to industrialism
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Much later - in the 1960s and 1970s - the same principles [industrialism] were applied to services. Levitt (1972) vividly described the benefits of the industrialization of services ... but when these principles were applied to certain types of services the results were sometimes absurd.
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Companies found that customers were no longer captive; they had to be seduced. Relationships had to be based on loyalty not on captivity.
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The customer became much more than a 'receiver'
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Business did not come from the assets of the company, but was generated by the customer relationship. The customer relationship, not the factory, represented the decisive business potential. The key flow was not from the factory outbound, but from the customer inbound. Skillful utilization of the customer relationship was the key.
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Instead of seeing the business as a flow of materials to which value is continually added and ending with the customer, we now see business starting from the customer and flowing to the company. The perspective changes from inside-out to outside-in. The market as a sink is replaced by the customer as a source.
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Companies now are seen as having customer bases in which customers are individuals (institutions or persons) and representing sources of business; they are no longer anonymous markets and receivers/sinks. And the critical competence moves from production competence to relationship competence."

Num breve resumo a mensagem do capítulo 1, "Evolution of Strategic Paradigms" de "Reframing Business - When the Map Changes the Landscape" de Richard Normann.

Quando oiço/leio a tríade, acredito que ainda se encontra no primeiro parágrafo deste resumo. E chegando ao último parágrafo e a "the critical competence moves from production competence to relationship competence" penso logo naqueles que se concentram pura e simplesmente na automatização e esquecem o poder da autenticidade da interacção e da co-criação.