Diversificação e entropia (parte II)

Na linha da parte I.

Tão interessante o título dado por Seth Godin a este tema no seu livro "What is Strategy", "241. Collapsing to the Center"

O termo "Collapsing to the Center" refere-se ao fenómeno em que marcas e empresas, ao longo do tempo, perdem a sua identidade distinta e acabam por tornar-se genéricas, previsíveis e enfadonhas. Isso acontece porque há uma pressão constante para expandir, agradar a mais clientes e reduzir riscos, o que inevitavelmente leva a um modelo de negócio mais homogéneo e indiferenciado. Recordar a suckiness dos gigantes.

Godin escreve:

"Marty Neumeier points out that many brands get boring over time. Systems and feedback loops relentlessly push us to center. It's easier to manage 100 doctors in a healthcare practice if they consistently act in similar ways.

It's hard work to stand for something, stick with a strategy, and to be willing to send customers to someone else for help.

Positioning is a service. It's a beacon to your customers, patients, or constituents. It says, "If you're looking for X, that's what we have. On the other hand, plenty of people are looking for Y, and you'll find that from our colleagues over there."

Positioning isn't competitive. It's the opposite. It turns your competitors into colleagues, folks who do something else for someone else.

But positioning is also a move in a strategic game. When you put yourself over here you are also choosing to put people who previously competed with you over there.

Some of them will make a move in response. Others will find themselves pushed to the center as you go to the edge.

We need organizations and people in the center, and I don't think we're in any peril of running out of that. But you (and your customers) benefit when you have a strategy to get to the edge you seek to live on."