Activity system (mosaico estratégico)

"Michael Porter had a nice conception of a portrait in strategy that I will use as an example. It comes out of his 1996 Harvard Business Review article, What is Strategy? I think it is one of the top ten things that has ever been written on business strategy. [I will say, parenthetically, that the article is near and dear to me because I helped Mike with it, for which he thanked me in the article's acknowledgements.]

To me, the new-to-the-world insight of the article was that sustainable competitive advantage - winning - does not arise from performing one activity well but by performing a number of activities together. The company doesn't necessarily perform all the activities better than every competitor, but no competitor puts it all together the same way. In fact, it is daunting for competitors to even try because it involves making a number of activities work together seamlessly.

In the article, he uses IKEA, Vanguard and Southwest Airlines as examples of this kind of competitive advantage. For those who say competitive advantage is fleeting or no longer even possible, that was 29 years ago, and they are still all on top and haven't faced someone who has tried to replicate all their activities."

Recordo, por exemplo, "How can we use the process approach (part IVa)" ou "A evolução da ideia de mosaico estratégico (parte III)"

Trechos retirados de "Developing a Powerful How-to-Win"