Um artigo que põe em causa algumas relações de causa-efeito que assumimos à priori como sempre verdadeiras.
"Some of the core assumptions about what drives financial performance have become so widely accepted that they are often viewed as facts. However, managers are frequently unable to justify the assumptions underlying their competitive strategies with data from their own organizations. The danger is that unless the core assumptions are sound and relevant to your own circumstances, you run the risk of developing wrongheaded strategies that will lead you astray. [Moi ici: Isto para um utilizador de mapas da estratégia é muito importante]
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Managers often make assumptions about the relationship between, for example, customer loyalty and profitability, even when the presumed links haven’t been fully tested. Indeed, one study found that only 21% of managers who said they implemented strategy maps had actually tested the links within their own organizations, and many of those who had tested the links found their early assumptions were flawed. Failure to test such hypotheses means that critical assumptions go unchallenged, leading to misguided strategies.
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Although intuitively appealing, strategy maps and models such as the service profit chain have a common pitfall: They encourage managers to embrace general assumptions about the drivers of financial performance that may not stand up to close scrutiny in their own organizations.
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[Moi ici: Os autores referem a utilização da técnica "Topology mapping"] It requires managers to identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to their business, measure the correlations between the various KPIs, and then build maps of the positive and negative correlations.
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[Moi ici: Segue-se um exemplo de uma topology mapping para uma Superstore Retail Chain]
This performance topology map shows that customer loyalty and productivity are strongly linked to profit (see green links), and also indicates that employee and customer loyalty are linked. However, employee satisfaction and employee loyalty are negatively related to store productivity and financial performance.[Moi ici: Foi fácil perceber que as lojas maiores tinham a maior rentabilidade, mas eram as que exigiam mais dos trabalhadores. Por isso, as lojas mais pequenas tinham trabalhadores mais satisfeitos, mas como tinham menos opções, não vendiam tanto]
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The value of performance mapping stems as much from the process of developing the maps as from the maps themselves. Developing and testing performance topology maps is a creative activity that enables managers to engage in debate about performance drivers, which may lead to new narratives that explain performance relationships. Unexpected performance relationships can lead to important insights."
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