Dá que pensar...

Há dias escrevi "Os indicadores também ficam obsoletos quando o mundo muda".

Ontem, ao redigir um texto num relatório para uma empresa escrevi qualquer coisa como: O pico do Normalistão, o pico da força massificadora gerada pela Revolução Industrial terá atingido o seu apogeu nos Estados Unidos por volta dos anos 50 do século passado.

Entretanto à noite, durante uma caminhada li "America Isn’t Out Of Ideas. In Fact, A New Era Of Innovation Is About To Begin" onde encontrei:

"In a recent article, he points out, correctly, that total factor productivity growth has “steadily fallen” since its peak in the 1950’s and 60’s."

Dá que pensar... talvez as duas coisas estejam correlacionadas

Imprimam bentos! (parte I)

Não acredito no Grande Planeador, seja ele português ou chinês.
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Interessante, no entanto, perceber as boas-intenções do governo chinês
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"Credit squeeze drives change at China’s SMEs":
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"Rather than facing a widespread credit squeeze, the SME sector is undergoing a painful process of restructuring. Capital is being funnelled towards high-tech and green energy-related companies at the expense of traditional low-end manufacturers.
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In Wenzhou, China’s SME heartland, many of the shoe and clothing factories are indeed struggling.
“During the financial crisis, there were no orders. Now, there are orders but no one dares to fulfil them because it is impossible to get credit from banks,”
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Mr Zhou says at least 20 per cent of Wenzhou’s SMEs – there are 360,000 in the city – have already cut back operations or closed their doors this year. State media have carried reports of cash-strapped SMEs borrowing from underground lenders at annualised rates of 60 per cent.
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Instead, interviews with local factory managers, investors and bankers reveal a city in the midst of fundamental change in what it produces, with the government prodding companies to make more sophisticated products as rising wages undermine the low-cost model of manufacturing. (Moi ici:Imprimam bentos! É mais fácil imprimir bentos do que fuçar por uma alternativa) A lack of financing, they say, is a symptom and not a cause of the troubles facing traditional industries.
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“The government is trying to bring about change and is supporting high-tech sectors. We are no longer the kind of company it wants,” says a manager at a factory owned by Yibaini Shoes, a small maker of cheap women’s shoes, where workers’ salaries have tripled in the past five years."
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Trechos retirados daqui.
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BTW,
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"“There are lots of people who can no longer make money off shoes, and so they’re taking their money out of the industry to invest in property. The money comes in so much more quickly,” she said." (Moi ici: You are going to be sorry... os portugueses não são nem mais burros nem diferentes dos outros, reagem aos estímulos com mentalidade de jogador de bilhar amador)

Uma Sildávia na América

O artigo "New Jersey Pencil Maker Cedes No. 2s to China Even on Tariffs" deixa-me uma sensação...
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" use a century- old process (Moi ici: A century-old process!!! Querem-me convencer que em cem anos não houve novas tecnologias a aparecerem? Muito mais eficientes? Por que é que uma comunidade há-de suportar empresas e empresários que não se renovaram?) to pound graphite and clay into a powder that is heated, wrapped in cedar wood, capped with an eraser and sent to customers around the world.
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“The yellow pencil basically became a Chinese commodity,  (Moi ici: E a culpa é dos chineses?)” ... “We’ve had to become a very boutique  (Moi ici: Mas não me parece que seja algo assumido e vivido. A Viarco, pelas vezes que ouvi o seu gestor de topo falar, dá ideia de alguém que assumiu esse nicho e desenvolve-o, não se limita a ficar num canto a lamber as feridas. Curte o lado bom do nicho) type of business in order to survive. Anti-dumping helps the companies that are left get some relief from this onslaught.”  (Moi ici: Mas se não fazem nada para evoluir...)
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U.S. demand has been steady at about 3.6 billion pencils sold each year since the last review of the anti-dumping order in 2005, according to the letter. Chinese pencil imports have surged fivefold since 1996, and imports from all sources worldwide have more than tripled, according to trade commission and Commerce Department data.
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The growth in pencil imports from China shows that the anti-dumping order has been a failure,
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Yellow No. 2s produced by General Pencil have continued to decline under the anti-dumping orders, and the number of workers at its factory dropped about 30 percent by attrition since the early 1990s, Weissenborn said.
Weissenborn credits anti-dumping duties for helping to keep his family’s business going for a sixth generation. His granddaughter joined the company in sales and marketing two years ago after graduating from college, he said.
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“As long as there’s a niche, we’ll be in business,” Weissenborn said. “We’ve done this for 100 years and hopefully can do it for another 100 years.” "  (Moi ici: E a culpa é dos chineses?)
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Atenção à mudança

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Ou esta outra São exemplos de artigos que deviam estar à entrada de qualquer empresa: no lugar onde se pica o cartão de ponto, na sala de reuniões da administração, na cantina, ...

Para que toda a gente se lembrasse, constantemente, da necessidade de:

• renovação;
• atenção à mudança;
• gerar ideias; e
• adaptação.

Hoje, parar é andar para trás. Aquilo que é verdade hoje... amanhã é mentira, está obsoleto, está ultrapassado.

E aplica-se tanto ás organizações, como ás pessoas!!!