Volto ao texto de 2007 e à ideia do título do livro "A empresa negligenciada":
"A vida de um gestor consiste pois em gerir duas empresas em simultâneo: a presente e a futura. Se ele se limitar a gerir a presente (e não a futura), a sua empresa em breve se tornará obsoleta por via da alteração das condições de mercado em que está inserida. Se ele gerir apenas a futura (e negligenciar a presente) a empresa nunca chegará a atingir esse futuro. Ficará pelo caminho.
Sendo assim, a competitividade de uma empresa depende de uma boa gestão de curto prazo (a empresa do presente) e da introdução de saltos qualitativos (a empresa do futuro)."
Para o relacionar com uma estória retirada do livro "The Crux - How Leaders Become Strategists" de Richard P. Rumelt:
"One example of the latter was ‘OKCo.’ In 2002 OKCo was a significant manufacturer of home and business-office climate-control systems. The entire product line had fourteen different models. The problem, as they defined it, was low profitability and low growth. I worked with the vice president of strategy, who led a small team of analysts, and had periodic discussions with the CEO.
I gathered views of the situation from at least twenty different managers, engineers, and salespeople. There was both increasing competition and complexity in the business. What I saw was that the company's product line was stale and not up-to-date.
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The engineers who had designed OKCo's printed circuit-board systems had long since retired. To compensate for the decline in the product's performance, management had been lowering prices and increasing sales commissions. This was, in my view, not a good path to follow. It felt like working with the data-processing companies who stuck with old greenscreen terminals until the Internet and PCs overwhelmed them.
The vice president of strategy and I did a thorough evaluation of the company's products and competitors' products and interviewed a good number of systems buyers and customers. OKCo was a widely recognized brand name. Large systems buyers liked the newer competitive designs, but also trusted OKCo because of its years in the business. Smaller buyers and contractors were split, with many installers preferring the older jumper system-it took about twice the time to install, and that meant twice the chargeable hours.
In addition to these product and marketing issues, the company's organization was sleepy and self-satisfied despite the slowly declining financial performance. Outsourcing the manufacturing of parts and assemblies to China had helped keep costs down."
A empresa do presente tem os clientes actuais e tem a rentabilidade actual. Será que a empresa do futuro passa por servir o mesmo tipo de clientes? Será que a empresa do futuro se aguenta com um nível de rentabilidade semelhante ao actual?
Uma empresa sem pensamento estratégico, sem orientação estratégica, foca-se na empresa do presente e ao concentrar-se na satisfação dos clientes actuais, na prática pode estar a negligenciar a empresa do futuro. Por isso, é que uso a imagem do jongleur, ser capaz de gerir a empresa actual ao mesmo tempo que se alimenta a empresa do futuro. Construir um futuro passa sempre por tolerar a experimentação, por não esquecer a exploration, por tolerar alguma ineficiência. No entanto, vivemos tempos de foco no eficientismo.
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