"stasis is a recipe for extinction" (parte II)

Quando escrevi a parte I nunca pensei que tivesse uma sequela logo no dia seguinte.

Nessa primeira parte escrevi:

"Aquela lição de 2007 (Beinhocker) não me larga o pensamento. Qual a melhor estratégia? Não há melhor estratégia. Todas as estratégias são situacionais, todas as estratégias quando bem desenhadas e implementadas têm "15 minutos de fama" e depois, inevitavelmente ficam fora do prazo de validade."

 No mês passado escrevi o postal ""Start moving in some general direction"" acerca da queda e recuperação da indústria suíça de relógios. Ontem li "Smartwatches call time on the Swiss industry":

"The watch industry has always displayed a strong streak of economic irrationality. After all, you can buy a Casio digital watch for £5 that will tell the time more reliably than a mechanical Patek Philippe Grand Complications costing 40,000 times as much.
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According to research firm Strategy Analytics, the Apple Watch, launched less than five years ago, now outsells the entire Swiss industry, which has been manufacturing wristwatches for 152 years. Last year, Apple increased sales by 36 per cent to almost 31m watches while the Swiss industry shipped about 21m in total, a 13 per cent decline.
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The one solace for Swiss watchmakers is that they still generate more revenue: $21bn to Apple’s $11bn. But on current trends Apple will overtake the Swiss on that measure, too, by 2023."

O final do artigo sugere uma reflexão aplicável a outros sectores, nomeadamente aos sapatos:

"René Weber, a luxury analyst at Bank Vontobel in Zurich, highlights the sharp contrast in performance between the low and high-end watch segments. Since 2000, Swiss watches costing less than $1,000 have seen their unit sales halve, while watches costing more than $5,000 have seen volumes triple.
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Mr Weber says sales of the most prestigious watches made by Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet have been little affected by the smartwatch revolution. Indeed, there are waiting lists for some of their top-end products because of capacity constraints in manufacturing complex mechanical watches."

Fico a pensar nas empresas que perante um ataque de concorrentes low-cost tentam dar a volta procurando reduzir elas próprias os seus preços ... no way.

Fico a pensar que os smartwatches vieram terminar com os "15 minutos de fama" pós Swatch e obrigam a repensar outra vez a estratégia.