Capabilities Versus Assets

Um dos pontos que mais apreciei da leitura de "The Essential Advantage" de Paul Leinwand e Cesare Mainardi é sobre a diferença entre capacidades e activos:
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"Capabilities Versus Assets
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Many corporate leaders assign insufficient weight to their differentiating capabilities in developing strategy. Instead, they base their strategy on an assessment of their assets - their patents, brands, land, facilities, machinery, supplier and customer connections, and cash. Guided in part by this "asset-forward" view of the world, they tend to compete most heavily wherever they have assets at sufficient scale.
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That's shortsighted. If assets were the primary factor underlying success, then any company in an industry could win by adopting the same strategy, as long as it had enough capital to buy the assets it needed.
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Moreover, assets tend to depreciate in value and can diminish unexpectedly . For example, the value of a patent expires, and in many sectors, it has become easier to manage around them.
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A capability, by contrast, is yours. It can't be stolen or easily bought by competitors; by the time they copy what you know how to do, you will already had evolved the capability further. Even if they duplicate some of your methods, they will not be able to make use of them as you do.
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We do not suggest that you ignore assets; they play a major role in how you go to market.
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A capabilities system consists of the three to six capabilities that distinguish a company and that the company invests in; these capabilities reinforce one another in the service of the company's way to play. To put it more broadly, the capabilities system is the integrated group of activities that enables a company to create value in the path it has chosen." (Moi ici: o mosaico)

Puretone: um conceito interessante

Quando estou numa conversa um-para-um e pretendo introduzir o tema da proposta de valor, como químico que fui, costumo desenhar um diagrama triangular (canto superior esquerdo),

como se quisesse representar uma mistura ternária.
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Cada vértice do triângulo representa uma proposta de valor pura:

• preço mais baixo
• serviço
• inovação

Exponho o que significa, e quais as vantagens e limitações de trabalhar no limite da pureza, para depois concluir que na maior parte das vezes as empresas têm de arranjar um compromisso híbrido.

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Foi desta abordagem que me recordei ao encontrar o conceito de Puretone na leitura do livro "The Essential Advantage How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy" de Paul Leinwand e Cesare Mainardi.
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Digitando em cada um dos "puretones" encontramos a sua definição.
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Digitando na base, nos nomes das empresas, encontramos combinações de "puretones" para explicar a proposta de valor de uma empresa. Por exemplo: McDonald's (Experience provider + Value player).
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Não esquecer o trabalho de Veronica Martinez com a Value Matrix.