Tendências

"The most focused companies use a variety of practices to align their organizations with a clear set of priorities. One such practice is having disciplined management meetings, including structuring the executive-team calendar to explicitly support strategic priorities.
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Most companies also find that frequently—and formally—revisiting strategic priorities, a necessity during the COVID-19 crisis, is beneficial.
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aligning with fewer (and bigger) priorities may also enable an organization to reset organizational and operating structures. Narrowing down priorities can afford organizations a chance to realign their business segments with the top priorities,
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Many of the shifts in recent months represent a substantial acceleration of consumer trends that had already been in progress for some time. For instance, online shopping is up by 20 to 70 percent since the pandemic began, and supply chains are adapting rapidly. Store economics have been strained for some time, and we expect store footprints to continue to shrink.
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Finally, the international spread of the coronavirus has accelerated the premium on flexibility in supply chains, including in partner terms and sourcing (particularly nearshoring).
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Up to 40 percent of consumers have switched stores and brands during the crisis, and many may choose to keep their new habits.
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The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically increased experimentation with flexible workforce models. Use of video-conference applications has risen by a factor of five to seven, and organizations have become more adept at working remotely.
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We have also noted the emergence of expedited and more focused decision making across consumer organizations. In our survey, more than 80 percent of executives said that decisions during the COVID-19 crisis are being made faster than before the crisis."

Trechos retirados de "Consumer organization and operating models for the next normal"

Time Compression

Um dos erros que cometi no início da quarentena, ao trabalhar com uma empresa, foi concentrar a atenção na semana seguinte, na sobrevivência.

Ontem, ao ler

“Time Compression
90-days. The world of decision-making is reduced to choices that make an impact within 90 days or less. This pandemic exploded the ideas of one-year planning and long-term investing in the business. Companies for the foreseeable future will be concerned with the near-term choices that are necessary to survive and potentially secure an advantage in their market. Soft savings and long-term improvements will not generate interest from top-level executives.”

A atenção deve ser concentrada no médio longo prazo. Sempre!
Não é a fazer máscaras e viseiras que as empresas vão ter futuro.

BTW, os trechos sublinhados fazem-me lembrar Schaffer (aqui também).

Trecho retirado de “How to Sell In Place: Closing Deals in the New Normal”

E depois do confinamento: quem vai ficar bem?

Um artigo interessante no FT de hoje, "German shops reopen but celebrations in Berlin muted".

Claro que a cultura alemã é diferente da portuguesa, mas muitas empresas exportam para a Alemanha. Claro que a cultura alemã é diferente da portuguesa, mas não faz mal nenhum perceber o que se passa por lá, para prevenir o que se possa passar por cá. Não esquecer que uns ficam de calças na mão a perguntar: O que se passou?. Outros, olham ao longe e perguntam: O que é que pode vir aí?

"In Mitte, one of the German capital’s trendiest neighbourhoods, where thrift shops jostle for space with tech start-ups and glitzy boutiques, the streets were eerily empty. Most stores were still shut, and those that were open were largely devoid of customers.
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“Our sales will collapse,” said Chantal Frohnhoefer, manager of Macchina Caffe, a small shop selling espresso machines. “No one really wants to go shopping right now. They’re still too scared they’ll get infected.” [Moi ici: Esta manhã, na minha caminhada, li mais um capítulo de "Surviving the Survival" de Laurence Gonzales, e sublinhei: “In general, states with stronger motivational significance tend to dominate. Animals that are being hunted by a predator don’t have the luxury of eating and having sex. Postponing these activities is coping as well.”]
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“We are entering a long, lean period which could end up being even worse than the shutdown,” he said. “At least when shops were shut they were entitled to government aid. Now they’re on their own.”[Moi ici: O motor do desemprego]
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“Consumers will be very cautious — they’ve seen a big loss of income, and they will want to save,” said Clemens Fuest, head of the Ifo Institute in Munich, a think-tank. “Shops will try to attract customers with discounts and special offers, but they’ll struggle to reach the sales volume they had before the crisis began.”
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For cosmopolitan cities such as Berlin, [Moi ici: Ou Porto, ou Lisboa] the sudden halt to international travel is also having a big impact. “Normally this street is full of tourists — they’re the reason why Mitte is so lively,” said Ms Frohnhoefer.
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Many customers were suffering from “existential fear”, she said. “They’re on furlough or even unemployed, so money is short.” And, in any case, no one is in the mood for “emotional purchases”, added Ms Steinbrenner. “There’s little point in buying new clothes if you’ve got nowhere to go to show them off.”
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Though shops have reopened their doors, restaurants, cafés and bars remain closed. “The whole shopping experience has changed because you can’t buy stuff and go for a bite to eat afterwards,” said Mr Fuest. “That means people don’t go shopping just for the joy of it.”
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“The air is going to be thin for a long time.”"

O que vale é que por cá não haverá austeridade! 🤥🤥🤥

“The core problem is uncertainty”

"It was expected, perhaps, but still startling. In its 22nd Annual Global CEO Survey, PwC asked 1,378 top business leaders from around the world which territories (excluding their own) they considered the most important for their company’s growth prospects in the next 12 months. The world’s chief executives were noticeably noncommittal. As many as 15 percent of them answered “don’t know” in 2019, up from 8 percent the previous year.CEOs in the United States were even more dubious: 14 percent of them didn’t consider any other markets suitable for growth, up from only 2 percent in the 2018 survey.
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This shift in attitude is already reflected in business investment. Of the 31 percent of CEOs who said they were “extremely concerned” about trade wars, 45 percent said they were shifting their supply chain strategy, and 25 percent said they were shifting their growth strategies to other territories.
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Fundamental aspects of the global economy have been shifting for more than a decade. Elements undergoing change include costs for manufacturing (including labor costs, which are rising), new technological platforms (such as those associated with Industry 4.0), stronger suppliers and other businesses in emerging markets (which are maturing), middle-class consumer populations around the world (which are growing rapidly in emerging markets and shrinking in other places), and political and regulatory uncertainties.
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A new model of market expansion strategy — we call it “internationalization” — is replacing the globalism of the early 2000s. This model acknowledges that the global business ecosystem now includes many small and medium-sized enterprises and ambitious family businesses, often based in emerging markets, linked together by collaborative supply chains and platforms. At the same time, larger companies with established global supply chains have realized that they need to bring their operations closer to the demand they are targeting. The trade tensions of 2019 have heightened awareness of these dynamics, and accelerated the business response to them.
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To be sure, global trade will still thrive, but there will be more regional concentration. Rather than shipping goods around the world from cheaplabor hubs, companies manufacture goods for Asian customers in Asia, for European customers in Central Europe, and for North American customers in Latin America. They develop regional footprints, sourcing from more locations."

Interessante:

"The World Trade Organization (WTO) published a report in June 2019 showing that G20 nations had implemented 20 new restrictive trade measures between October 2018 and May 2019, including higher tariffs, import bans, and new customs procedures for exports.
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All this has had a chilling effect on international commerce. Imports by G20 economies were 1.2 percent lower in the first quarter of 2019 than they were a year earlier, whereas exports were only marginally (0.4 percent) higher, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development figures show. “The core problem is uncertainty,” said Piyush Gupta, chief executive of Singapore’s largest domestic bank, DBS, in an interview with strategy+business. “There’s a general environment of skittishness.”"

Trechos retirados de "Growth strategies for an uncertain world"

Alguns sintomas de mudanças em curso

Alguns sintomas de mudanças em curso:

• The ‘Amazon effect’ is flooding a struggling recycling system with cardboard
• H&M is trialling a clothing rental service for members
• The direct-to-consumer strategy is making a run at Amazon's throne e The Direct-to-Consumer Reckoning

E reflectir em:

“myopia causes us to miss vital signals that are sometimes literally under our noses. While attention tends to focus on the obvious, the ‘noisiest’, the here and now, at the same time, less obvious changes holding future significance tend to pass unnoticed until it’s too late.
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And industry myopia is the primary reason change is experienced as disruption — ‘We didn’t see that coming!
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industry myopia is the primary reason change is experienced as disruption — ‘We didn’t see that coming!”

Trechos retirados de “Rethinking Strategy” de Steve Tighe.

Um futuro melhor será construído, com sofrimento

@AllanMoura Caro Allan, há muito q de longe acompanho o namoro tóxico do Brasil com o proteccionismo http://t.co/VhFGdwU9ss.

— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) September 13, 2015

 

Ao longo dos anos, quando me lembro das previsões que fiz aqui em 2007, 2008 e 2009 acerca da economia portuguesa e europeia concluo que acertei em quase tudo. A grande excepção foi a intervenção do BCE com o QE.

Previ aqui a inversão do desemprego, enquanto os media ainda andavam a fazer capas afundados na variação homóloga. Previ aqui o sucesso do calçado e o regresso do têxtil quando tais previsões geravam sorrisos trocistas.

Acho um exercício saudável e instrutivo fazer previsões e, depois, confrontar o real com o previsto. Eventuais diferenças alertam-nos para o que descuramos. E, durante a viagem para o futuro, mantemos-nos alertas para novas informações que possam reforçar ou enfraquecer a nossa previsão.

Escrevo isto a propósito de "5 perguntas para entender o acordo “histórico” entre UE e Mercosul" e "Oito perguntas para entender melhor acordo entre Mercosul e União Europeia".

@pauloperes 2º Como pode o Brasil virar exportador a sério se é proteccionista em casa? 3/3

— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) August 11, 2015

 

O que conheço da economia brasileira é o que resulta das tentativas das PMEs exportarem para esse país e encontrarem barreiras alfandegárias tremendas como existiam em Portugal em 1986.

Ainda teremos de saber em termos práticos qual o nível de abertura. É difícil acreditar numa abertura agrícola francesa ou numa abertura industrial brasileira. No entanto, será interessante que as PMEs portuguesas avaliem o nível de abertura proporcionado e as oportunidades potenciais.

Admitindo uma abertura real, as PMEs brasileiras que se cuidem. Sabem o que aconteceu em Portugal? 

Com a adesão à então CEE primeiro perdemos muitas empresas que competiam pela nata do mercado interno, porque foram incapazes de fazer frente a marcas mais caras, mas com mais poder afectivo/emocional. Depois, com a China perdemos as PMEs do preço baixo.

Portanto, não serão assim tão duras as cabeças:

Ainda andam nisto? Que cabeças duras. https://t.co/ANv4gO5cTx

— jcd (@jcaetanodias) June 30, 2019

 

É claro que há vida depois do acordo.

Só que não acontecerá de um dia para o outro, nem acontecerá com a maioria das empresas que existem hoje. Como costumo repetir aqui (Maliranta e Nassim Taleb) a maioria das empresas está tão presa ao passado que não consegue ver as oportunidades. Por isso, morrem. Um futuro melhor será construído por empresas novas, por gente sem modelos mentais castradores que as prendem ao passado. No entretanto, muita gente vai sofrer durante a transição.

Tendências

Na sequência de "Alterações que podem ter implicações ..."

"BoF: What industry shifts are you most optimistic about?
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DLR: The two biggest changes are sustainability and inclusivity. 10 years ago, [sustainability] was kind of a niche topic, [but] now it’s on everybody’s lips — everyone from Zara to H&M and Arket are using sustainable fibres. Everybody in our industry is getting conscious about our impact on the environment, as well as how popular and sales-driving it can be to become more eco-responsible.
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BoF: What topics should the fashion industry be debating more vigorously?
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DLR: In my personal opinion, one of the biggest issues at the moment is overproduction. There's too much product and too many collections. The market is oversaturated. I don't know how this trend could stop but, the industry — both fast fashion and luxury brands — are moving towards the concept of dropping small capsule collections with the aim of selling out. This could be a test for being more limited in production.
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BoF: What are you doing differently in your role this year?
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DLR: My roles at Valentino and Loro Piana are the complete opposite of overproduction. We actually want to produce and sell just a bit less than what people are going to buy because in luxury, we are all based on rarity and desirability. We cannot — and do not want to — overproduce. It has to remain a very special and precious style that you will keep for years, if not generations.
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At Loro Piana, our ultimate focus is quality, durability [and] sourcing the most precious fibres out there. On a professional and personal level, it's already going against this overproduction and overconsumption, as it's a kind of conscious consumption."

Acham que as estruturas produtivas de ontem continuarão a ser as de amanhã?

Trechos retirados de "Loro Piana's Danielle Lesage-Rochette: 'One of the Biggest Issues at the Moment Is Overproduction'"

Uma das tendências do mercado actual

Um artigo interessante sobre uma das tendências do mercado actual "More Americans Are Living Solo, and Companies Want Their Business":

"More Americans than ever are living alone these days, and many don’t want to bake full-size cakes, buy eggs by the dozen, run half-loaded dishwashers or store 24-packs of toilet paper.
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Consumer-products companies are taking note, catering to what they see as a lucrative market for single-person households by upending generations of family-focused product development and marketing. Appliance makers are shrinking refrigerators and ovens. Food companies are producing more single-serving options. Household-product makers are revamping packaging.
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“We have to go beyond the paradigm of the middle-class family of four for growth, so smaller households have been a huge focus for us,”
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Looking beyond the family of four, she says, “is a really big shift.”
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Today, 35.7 million Americans live alone, 28% of households. That is up from 13% of households in 1960 and 23% in 1980, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Delayed or foregone marriage, [Moi ici: Ontem de manhã sentado no hall de um hotel, enquanto aguardava a chegada de uma pessoa, ouvia uma conversa de turistas brasileiras todas bem entradas na terceira idade. Uma delas dizia para as outras, com um toque de reprovação, que o filho de 34 anos nem pensava em casar] longer life expectancy, urbanization and wealth have contributed, demographers say.
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Researchers have found many affluent, single-person households in urban areas tend to spend more per person than larger ones. They are often willing to spend more for a unit of something—twice as much, say, for chopped romaine as a whole head.
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Some want smaller appliances but bigger closets, or prefer one huge roll of toilet paper over multiple backup rolls they must store somewhere. Many marketers approach single-person households with urban consumers in mind.
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For generations, consumers favored appliances with the biggest capacity, so manufacturers have long boasted how many towels squeeze into a washing machine or how easily a large turkey slides into an oven. But small households usually choose appliances by finding which will best fit their space, companies say.
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“They’re not trying to load every towel in from the pool,”"

Para reflexão

"The experts were, by and large, horrific forecasters. Their areas of specialty, years of experience, and (for some) access to classified information made no difference. They were bad at short-term forecasting and bad at long-term forecasting. They were bad at forecasting in every domain. When experts declared that future events were impossible or nearly impossible, 15 percent of them occurred nonetheless. When they declared events to be a sure thing, more than one-quarter of them failed to transpire.
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Even faced with their results, many experts never admitted systematic flaws in their judgment. When they missed wildly, it was a near miss; if just one little thing had gone differently, they would have nailed it. “There is often a curiously inverse relationship,” Tetlock concluded, “between how well forecasters thought they were doing and how well they did.”
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Hedgehogs are deeply and tightly focused. Some have spent their career studying one problem. ...
Foxes, meanwhile, “draw from an eclectic array of traditions, and accept ambiguity and contradiction,” Tetlock wrote. Where hedgehogs represent narrowness, foxes embody breadth.
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Incredibly, the hedgehogs performed especially poorly on long-term predictions within their specialty. They got worse as they accumulated experience and credentials in their field. The more information they had to work with, the more easily they could fit any story into their worldview.
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Unfortunately, the world’s most prominent specialists are rarely held accountable for their predictions, so we continue to rely on them even when their track records make clear that we should not."

Trechos retirados de "The Peculiar Blindness of Experts"

BTW, este anónimo da província apostou em Agosto de 2013 quando todos falavam da espiral recessiva, foi no dia 25 de Abril de 2013. Recordo Outubro de 2013 e sobretudo "Uma espécie de Agosto de 2013".

Há dias publiquei a segunda parte de "O fim de um ciclo":

• Parte I 
• Parte II

E reparem como andam os funcionários do governo no semanário [sim, porque não eu não me esqueço de Gigerenzer], "INE deve apresentar esta semana a taxa de desemprego mais baixa dos últimos 15 anos":

"Economistas ouvidos pelo Expresso apontam, em média, para uma taxa de desemprego de 6,5% no primeiro trimestre deste ano, o que compara com 6,7% nos últimos três meses de 2018. A confirmar-se, será o valor mais baixo desde 2004"

E comparem com "Taxa de desemprego sobe pela primeira vez em três anos":

"No primeiro trimestre de 2019, a taxa de desemprego foi 6,8%, acaba de divulgar o Instituto Nacional de Estatística, registando uma subida de 0,1 pontos percentuais (p.p.) face ao trimestre anterior, mas também uma descida de 1,1 pontos percentuais face ao período homólogo, o primeiro trimestre de 2018. A subida trimestral acontece pela primeira vez desde o primeiro trimestre de 2016."[Moi ici: Recordar "Acerca do desemprego"]

A maré já mudou, agora só está a ser atenuada pela boleia demográfica.

Cenários e estratégia (parte VIII)

Parte I, parte II, parte III,  parte IV, parte V, parte VI e parte VII.

Na parte anterior sublinhámos:

"it is important to distinguish between immediate actors one does business with (located in the smaller brown oval) and the diverse factors in the larger contextual environment. The contextual factors are beyond the influence of the organization. Scenario planning is about exploring how larger contextual factors might affect an organization. Scenarios are developed by combining contextual factors (particularly ones that are less well-known and more uncertain). Each scenario will be based on a unique combination of contextual factors."

E volto a sublinhar "The contextual factors are beyond the influence of the organization"

O problema da monocultura florestal é como o problema do sector público: dimensão, escala, volume.

Quando um privado faz uma asneira e implode, é um problema isolado. Quando se trata de um sector público a dimensão pode ser tão grande que vai ter impacte em toda a sociedade.

O futuro é incerto e pôr todas as fichas (recordo o que Taleb me ensinou sobre os estóicos e o investimento) numa hipótese pode ser problemático.

Recordo todas as previsões para Sines com o alargamento do canal do Panamá...

Além do refluxo da globalização, acrescentar:

• Realizado primeiro transporte de veículos comerciais por comboio entre a China e o Reino Unido
• Volvo torna-se o primeiro fabricante automóvel a exportar veículos novos da China para a Europa por ferrovia

Cenários e estratégia (parte VII)

Parte I, parte II, parte III,  parte IV, parte V e parte VI.

"it is important to distinguish between immediate actors one does business with (located in the smaller brown oval) and the diverse factors in the larger contextual environment. The contextual factors are beyond the influence of the organization.Scenario planning is about exploring how larger contextual factors might affect an organization. Scenarios are developed by combining contextual factors (particularly ones that are less well-known and more uncertain). Each scenario will be based on a unique combination of contextual factors."

 Trechos e imagem retirada de "Using Scenario Planning to Reshape Strategy"

Cenários e estratégia (parte VI)

Parte I, parte II, parte III,  parte IV e parte V.

"Rather than trying to predict the future, organizations need to strengthen their abilities to cope with uncertainty.
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Rather than tying their company’s future to a strategy geared to a single set of events, many senior executives are coming to the view that smart management benefits from a richer understanding of the present possibilities afforded from multiple views about possible futures.
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 the Oxford scenario planning approach is based on plausibility. By recognizing the part of uncertainty that is unpredictable and by actively exploring the sources of the turbulence and uncertainty, the goal is to iteratively and interactively generate new knowledge and insights to help organizations reperceive their circumstances.
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During periods of turbulence, unpredictable uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity (what the Oxford scenario planning approach refers to as TUNA conditions), organizations frequently experience serious challenges that threaten existing value chains, communities, and even whole fields of endeavor. Such conditions can be unsettling and destabilizing on many different levels. But they also present opportunities for organizations to reframe their strategies and innovate.
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A core feature in the Oxford approach is making a distinction between the immediate business environment an organization inhabits (where business transactions take place) and the broader environment, or context, in which it operates. In principle, our approach focuses on two layers. The first layer is the immediate business environment and includes a company’s suppliers, customers, competitors, partners, and other stakeholders. The second layer is made up of all the factors that are beyond the organization’s direct influence. Scenario planning is about exploring how the second layer might transform the first layer."

Trechos retirados de "Using Scenario Planning to Reshape Strategy"

Cenários e estratégia (parte V)

Parte I, parte II, parte III e parte IV,

"First, making strategy is not about accurate forecasting. You must consider the multiple interpretations of present concerns and historical trajectories that help to constitute  those forecasts.
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Second, achieving an innovative future is not about forgetting the past. Some people have suggested that new strategies require strategic “forgetting,” so that organizations are not anchored in old ways of doing things.
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Constructing new narratives is a way to achieve change while at the same time showing how the new strategy achieves some form of continuity with a (reimagined) past. In other words, history matters — but not in the way you might think. The past is not a singular guide to the future. In fact, it is the multiplicity and ambiguity of experiences of the past that enable the different interpretations that can generate innovative alternatives.
Third, strategy making is not about getting the “right” narrative. It’s about getting a narrative that is good enough for now, so that the organization can move forward and take action in uncertain times. This recognizes that strategy will in some ways always be evolving and “emergent.” Our view of strategy making suggests that the narratives that managers construct will shape the direction of future actions, just as those actions, in turn, will lead to further reconfiguring of the company’s strategic narratives over time.
Fourth, breakdowns in the strategy-making process are not failures but rather opportunities for learning and for reconfiguring the strategic narrative.
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A model of strategy making that focuses on strategic narratives provides insights into a long-standing puzzle about the sources of competitive advantage: Is company performance mainly derived from luck or managerial foresight? Evidence from our field study suggests that both past legacies and future projections shape future outcomes."

Cenários e estratégia (parte IV)

Parte I, parte II e parte III.

"The past, present and future were thus all interpreted and reinterpreted in the CommCorp strategy-making process, and these interpretations were multiple, interdependent — and sometimes conflicting.
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New visions of the future also triggered reconsiderations of current concerns.
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The more the participants reconsidered present concerns, the greater the tensions that arose. However, it was through such interactions that new connections were built among the past, present and future.
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A particular view of the future shaped and was shaped by certain understandings of history and present priorities. Envisioning new futures provoked reassessments of the past and present, just as new understandings of current concerns triggered new imaginings of the future and alternative versions of history. Negotiating these interpretive differences proved to be central to strategy making in practice"

Fundamental esta experiência repetida de sondar, criar uma narrativa e pôr a empresa em cheque, testar mentalmente como será viver no futuro hipotético e como será a preparação para esse futuro.

Continua.


"Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives"

Cenários e estratégia (parte III)

Parte I e parte II.

Parece de propósito! O que incluí na Parte I, o receio de que o reshoring já esteja a ser mais por causa do preço do que outra coisa, e isto que acabo de encontrar:

"A new study finds that hourly wages in China’s manufacturing sector are now higher than those in every Latin American country other than Chile and are nearing the level found in some of the Eurozone’s lower-income countries such as Portugal and Greece. [Moi ici: O bloco de países de Leste referido na apresentação da Parte I não está incluído na zona euro] This is a sea change from just a decade ago, when China’s wages were among the lowest in the world. It means that living standards in China have risen substantially. It also means that China’s competitive advantage no longer stems simply from low labor costs."

Continua.


Trecho retirado de "China: Changing drivers for competitiveness Global Economic Outlook, Q2 2017"

Esta fonte ainda vai servir para mais um episódio de "I rest my case: competitividade e CUT"

Cenários e estratégia (parte II)

Parte I.

Já depois de feito o esquema matinal referido na parte I, no Domingo à tarde durante uma caminhada tive oportunidade de reler "Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives" e sublinhar:

"Our study revealed that future projections are intimately tied to interpretations of the past and the present. Strategy making amid volatility thus involves constructing and reconstructing strategic narratives that reimagine the past and present in ways that allow the organization to explore multiple possible futures."

Comparar com o texto da parte I:

"No esquema, começo (passado) com a indústria portuguesa em 1985, passo pela adesão à CEE, passo pela adesão dos países da Europa de Leste à UE e da China à OMC, continuo pelo reshoring motivado pela rapidez e flexibilidade, chego à actualidade (presente) com a subida dos custos na China e a industrialização massiva na Europa de Leste por estes dias e continuo com os desafios que podem advir (futuro) da evolução actual." 

E continuando a sublinhar:

"we found that strategy making was about constructing new narratives that tie together interpretations of the past, present and future. That is, effective projections of the future must be connected to resonant understandings of the present and past."
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To develop a new strategic direction for a company during a time of change, managers need to create a strategic narrative that links the company’s past, present and future. Crafting a strategic narrative involves reimagining future possibilities, rethinking the company’s past and reevaluating present concerns."

Continua.

Cenários e estratégia (parte I)

Sábado de manhã tive de ir a Tikrit. Receando uma viagem debaixo de sol forte levantei-me cedo e antes de sair ainda tive tempo de fazer este esquema:

No esquema, começo (passado) com a indústria portuguesa em 1985, passo pela adesão à CEE, passo pela adesão dos países da Europa de Leste à UE e da China à OMC, continuo pelo reshoring motivado pela rapidez e flexibilidade, chego à actualidade (presente) com a subida dos custos na China e a industrialização massiva na Europa de Leste por estes dias e continuo com os desafios que podem advir (futuro) da evolução actual.

Uma pequena parte desse esquema ("filme", "fluxo"), foi usada para fazer parte desta apresentação:

Fluxo from Carlos Pereira Da Cruz

Material com que termino esta apresentação sobre "Cenários e estratégia"

Continua.

Prisioneiros do passado

Recordar ""a historic transition in capitalism is unfolding"" ao ler:

"The greatest barrier most organizations have in moving into the future, is their inability to recognize how deeply mired their present thinking and practices are in a worldview belonging the distant past.
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Moreover, because organizations, and the people that lead them, are so deeply focused on tangible processes and bottom-line results, there is often little time or tolerance for stepping back to think about their thinking, and how that thinking frames their perception of obstacles and opportunities.
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For example, in a world increasingly defined by the non-linear interactions of multiple interdependent systems and individuals, coherence and effectiveness depend on the ability to discern context and sense the emergence of novel patterns. However, even with its relentless focus on innovation, contemporary business thinking remains deeply anchored to the sequential logic and predictability of Newtonian-era thought."

Trecho retirado de "To Think into the Future , We Must Begin Questioning the Past"

A atracção pelo futuro

"Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. And the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression."

Recordo muitas vezes esta frase irónica de Sir John Harvey-Jones.

Fascina-me o desafio de pensar, de influenciar, de construir proactivamente o futuro, em vez de esperar como folha na corrente. Por isso, atrai-me o tema das estratégias-trajectória.

Fascina-me algum pensamento de Heidegger, daí este sublinhado:

“O futuro é primária e decisivamente o que nos faz ser o que somos (eu diria antes, o que vamos sendo). É essa força constitutiva do futuro que Mourinho utiliza para motivar os seus jogadores. Para ele, o que fizemos, ou as estrelas que somos, não é o mais importante – Mourinho diz repetidamente isso aos seus jogadores: “o futuro é o que importa”. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio.”
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“Do ponto de vista heideggeriano, o mais importante para entendermos o que nos trouxe até ao presente é a projecção que corporizadamente somos para o futuro. Mourinho projecta constantemente o futuro, sobretudo o futuro da sua equipa.
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“o futuro, o projecto que temos de futuro, o entendimento genuíno, instintivo, intuitivo que dele fazemos é o que nos faz ser o que somos hoje.”
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E por fim: “Com base no que escolhemos e acreditamos genuinamente, para nós próprios enquanto projecção de futuro, assim determinamos as nossas acções de hoje.”

E recordar "future-back" approach to strategy", "Como o tempo flui?" e "O meu presente não existe senão graças ao meu futuro"

Por tudo isto, recomendo a leitura de "We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment":

"it is increasingly clear that the mind is mainly drawn to the future, not driven by the past. Behavior, memory and perception can’t be understood without appreciating the central role of prospection. We learn not by storing static records but by continually retouching memories and imagining future possibilities. Our brain sees the world not by processing every pixel in a scene but by focusing on the unexpected.
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Most prospection occurs at the unconscious level as the brain sifts information to generate predictions. Our systems of vision and hearing, like those of animals, would be overwhelmed if we had to process every pixel in a scene or every sound around us. Perception is manageable because the brain generates its own scene, so that the world remains stable even though your eyes move three times a second. This frees the perceptual system to heed features it didn’t predict, which is why you’re not aware of a ticking clock unless it stops. It’s also why you don’t laugh when you tickle yourself: You already know what’s coming next.
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The brain’s long-term memory has often been compared to an archive, but that’s not its primary purpose. Instead of faithfully recording the past, it keeps rewriting history.
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The fluidity of memory may seem like a defect, especially to a jury, but it serves a larger purpose. It’s a feature, not a bug, because the point of memory is to improve our ability to face the present and the future. To exploit the past, we metabolize it by extracting and recombining relevant information to fit novel situations.
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This link between memory and prospection has emerged in research showing that people with damage to the brain’s medial temporal lobe lose memories of past experiences as well as the ability to construct rich and detailed simulations of the future."

"imagining a preferred future and then stepping backward toward the present"

Trechos que parecem retirados deste blogue:

"We’ve been trained to think of the future as a linear extension of what we know, typically imagining change as a 10 percent improvement (or decline) from what we see around us.
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Technological, environmental and political changes will likely disrupt your business. How can you prepare for a different, even unimaginable world that will arrive faster than projected?
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Once you’ve identified your preferred future, you can start to identify key activities and milestones that would help create that future.
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Backcasting is the act of imagining a preferred future and then stepping backward toward the present, repeatedly probing what has to happen to enable each step.
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Backcasting is anchored in an aspirational future state rather than being constrained by limitations of the current state. This allows people to create their own richly detailed stories of the future and leads naturally to the discussion: “How can our product/service do that?”"

Trechos retirados de "How Leaders Dream Boldly to Bring New Futures to Life"

Recordar temas como "Começar pelo fim" ou "Mais uma vez e sempre: Começar pelo fim!!!" ou "future-back" approach to strategy" ou "Transformar uma empresa em 3 passos"