Clientes-alvo e ADN

"The lesson: Growth is best achieved by making things simpler for your customer rather than for you.
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The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. It had tried to listen to customers, but paid attention only to what was workable within its existing capabilities.
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[Moi ici: O que se segue também deve ser lido à luz de Mongo e da importância crescente das estratégias de diferenciação] Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many industries. A recent poll had 64% of consumers saying they would pay more for a simpler, more convenient experience. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. [Moi ici: As consequências desta evolução... uma vez que a procura, por todo o lado, se está a diferenciar, se está a segmentar] Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it.
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Boosting growth requires intentional decision making that starts from the outside in. That doesn’t only mean being customer-centric. You have to reframe your strategic moves to serve those customers around the current and future market context, not the past. You also have to resist the temptation to try everything with your customers and hope something will stick. You need to understand trade-offs, and resist seemingly attractive moves that have undesirable long-term consequences."

Começar por uma perspectiva outside-in é fundamental. É preciso focar quem são os clientes-alvo. No entanto, não esquecer que uma PME tem de começar pelo seu ADN. Recordar a effectuation e o concreto.

Trechos retirados de "Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow"