Plataformas e novas formas de competir

Agora, voltar ao "Mongo e os gigantes" e relacionar com "Platforms Are Transforming How We Need To Compete":

"Clearly, much has changed since Porter wrote his book nearly a half century ago. Today, we live in a networked world and competitive advantage is no longer the sum of all efficiencies, but the sum of all connections.  Strategy, therefore, must be focused on widening and deepening links to resources outside the firm.
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So we increasingly need to use platforms to access ecosystems of talent, technology and information.
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So this new era of platforms offers great opportunities, but also great challenges. We now need to design our organizations for agility, empathy and interconnectedness, rather than for scale, dominance and efficiency."

Considerar também "Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets":

"Since the industrial revolution, companies have raced to accumulate the most raw materials, properties, plants, and equipment, believing that owning and having more was the equivalent of being worth more.
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suddenly, in the digital age, the physical assets that the big industrial companies have acquired are becoming more and more burdensome."

Mongo e a ciência

Mongo também passa por aqui, "Citizen science: how the net is changing the role of amateur researchers".
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Como não recuar a 2007 e 2011 e a "Não confundir meios com fins".
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Como não recordar que tantos e tantos avanços científicos, antes da bolha industrial, foram da autoria de pessoas isoladas.

"We feel more comfortable imagining science as the exclusive preserve of lab-coated professors in well lit, publicly funded laboratories, surrounded by gleaming, expensive apparatus. In truth, though, the history of science is rooted in research carried out by independent devotees, driven by resourcefulness, passion and curiosity.
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“the possibilities for taking science into your own hands are greater than ever”. This is due in large part to the internet, which has provided access to swaths of research and educational resources, while fostering groups of curious and like-minded autodidacts."

Valor, contexto e interacção

"Four fairly new insights are challenging our traditional beliefs:
1. Value creation happens at the point of use, not the point of production;
2. Mass solutions are not as competitive as contextual solutions;
3. Transactions are replaced by interactions because contextual value creation cannot take place without interaction;
4. Open networks and reach and richness of networking are more valuable than control of proprietary assets."

Não são novidades aqui no blogue.
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O ponto 4, em sintonia com "Uma evolução interessante", vem suportar o que penso: o avanço dos restaurantes não é por causa do controlo, é por causa da autenticidade.
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Trechos retirados de "Work and the games we play"

Now we're talking (part VI)

Recordar que na parte IV, o Paulo Vaz citava:

"The rise of a fix-it, small-scale economy of repair shops and community 3-D fabs that can be rented by individuals would be a welcome expansion of what I call the Community Economy, the parts of the economy that are neither owned or controlled by global corporations or the Centralized State."

Estes artigos "20+ Open Source Furniture Designs", "37 Marketplaces to Share, Buy and Sell Designs for 3D Printing"e "First Look At Sketchfab: A Youtube For 3D Files" dão um interessante exemplo dos conteúdos que darão gás a Mongo.


Série completa na parte V.