À atenção das PME exportadoras

Quando cheguei ao fim da leitura de "The Product-Service Shift – Transforming Your Operating Model" pensei: Isto é bom!
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Só depois é que vi que o autor é Geoffrey Moore.
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Muitas PME portuguesas, prisioneiras do marxianismo e da product-based mentality precisam de fazer esta transição para uma service-based mentality:

"In a product company, although we often argue whose job it is to do what, we know overall what scope of work is involved. You have to spec out a set of features customers want, work with engineering to get them built into the product, work with marketing to get the product promoted, work with sales to get it sold, and work with customer support to get it serviced (and to collect a set of enhancement request for the next spec). But that is not at all how a service business works. Service customers don’t want features, they want outcomes. They don’t trust marketing that is outside the service experience; they expect to learn, try, and buy from inside the service delivery envelope. They don’t expect to be sold to, nor do they expect to use customer support unless somehow the service fails to deliver, which is more likely simply to cause them to churn out."

Podem pensar: Treta! As PME portuguesas exportam produtos.
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Sim!
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Sim e não!
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Recordo Dave Gray:

"Everything is Service
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Sure, many services require some level of production efficiency, but services are not processes. They are experiences.
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In the same way, a product can be considered as a physical manifestation of a service or set of services: a service avatar." 

Se calhar o melhor é fechar e culpar a conjuntura pelo encerramento

O que a sua empresa produz pode ter de mudar porque os clientes mudaram.
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Este relato de Seth Godin, "Who's left?" ilustra bem o fenómeno.
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Recordo Geoffrey Moore:

A maioria dos clientes mudaram, no entanto, ficam sempre alguns "laggards", uma minoria residual. Quando a nossa empresa não se adapta...
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Ou muda de produto, ou muda de clientes. Para mudar de clientes tem de mudar de prateleiras... novos canais de distribuição, novos canais de promoção, novos recursos, novas actividades, novos parceiros, nova proposta de valor... e tantos custos afundados... e o Arménio Carlos à porta a protestar. Se calhar o melhor é fechar e culpar a conjuntura pelo encerramento.

Dealing with Darwin

A leitura do número de Março-Abril, deste ano, do "Balanced Scorecard Report" fez-me crescer água na boca.
Deu-me a referência do autor Geoffrey Moore e do livro “Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution”.

Como introdução podemos ler:
"In the Darwinian world of natural selection, the organism that adjusts to stressful changes in its environment is the one that survives and prevails. Natural selection forces a breaking away from the pack – in both ecosystems and markets. Innovation is not a choice, but rather a design specification; not a strategy, but a requirement. It’s a Darwinian imperative to innovate forever.

In enterprise, however, humans disrupt the natural order by resisting change. Organizations have a sense of equilibrium that they don’t want to threaten by doing what their competitors won’t.
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Organizations must stay imbalanced, creating mechanisms that will encourage and reinforce a radical strategy that allows them to break away from the pack.

In an environment where globalization, deregulation, and commoditization exact their toll everywhere, the greatest up-front threat to your enterprise is risk-averse leadership and management."

Trata-se de um livro dedicado à inovação, nas suas mais diferentes formas. Uma breve pesquisa na Internet, permitiu-me encontrar o sítio do livro e o blog do autor.

Na recensão do livro, feita pela revista Business Week, pode ler-se: "While the target reader may occupy an office on the 50th floor, Moore's approach in the middle chapters is decidedly down-to-earth. He identifies 15 types of innovation and explains what kind of company at what phase of its development will get the most out of each. He explores four strategies for the growth phase of a product or service category, eight for mature phases, and three for the endgame."

Para um visual como eu, é um conforto um livro com esquemas, com mapas, com... como se pode adivinhar pela pesquisa do sítio do livro.

Como exemplo da linguagem "down-to-earth" este postal: "“Best in Class” is a Sucker Bet"