Fake vs Real

Fui buscar o livro "Authenticity" de Gilmore e Pine à estante para procurar a figura 6.1 The Real/Fake Matrix:

Encontrei uns bons pontos sobre o tema aqui, "Authenticity".

Já agora para os que querem ser tudo para todos:

"TP: Doesn't that make it impossible for a business to figure out how to render itself authentic?

JP: No, but it is difficult. You just have to realize that you may be able to render authenticity for some of the people all the time, maybe all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time."

Recordei este tema ao ler "Feeding the algorithm" de Seth Godin:

"Feeding the algorithm works when you’re the only one doing it. It works when you seek to fit right into the middle of the lane. And it works if you’re willing to outfeed everyone else–at least until the algorithm changes.

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The alternative is to be uncomfortable. To create remarkable work and leave scale to others. To figure out how to show up in a way that is generous and distinctive, and to refuse the bait that others take when they decide that feeding the algorithm is their best option."

"aligns the way it earns revenue with the way customers derive value"

"There are three critical checkpoints, if you will. First, customers have to access the solutions that firms bring to market. Clearly, customers cannot derive value if they are blocked, financially or physically, from reaching the products and services that are intended to address their needs and wants. Second, conditional on access, customers have to consume these products and services. Again, customers cannot derive value unless they actually experience or make use of the solution offered by a firm. Third, conditional on access and consumption, the product or service has to perform as customers expect-that is, it has to solve the need or want satisfactorily.

We claim that an exchange is inefficient [Moi ici: Julgo que a palavra ineficácia aqui ficava bem melhor] when customers experience friction at any one or more of these checkpoints."

"Clearly, the more an organization aligns the way it earns revenue with the way customers derive value - that is, the more responsibility for the three checkpoints of access, consumption, and performance it takes on-the "leaner" (as in more efficient, less wasteful) the exchange between the two becomes. ... market potential converts into actual market value as the organization brings its revenue model increasingly into line with the "ends" sought by customers."

Na sequência de Outcomes em vez do que se produz

Trechos retirados de "The ends game : how smart companies stop selling products and start delivering value" de Marco Bertini e Oded Koenigsberg.  

Guiar transformações

 Ainda de "The “New You” Business" um trecho final sobre a subida na escala de valor à custa das transformações:

"Competing on transformations makes a company responsible for working with customers to define the transformation each one seeks, identify the barriers to success, and orchestrate all the goods, services, and experiences needed to support them during their journeys. Such business models will be much harder to imitate than those that offer only goods, services, or experiences. And they promise to generate handsome rewards—not only profits but also the knowledge that the company has truly made a profound difference in its customers’ lives."

" But they matter only as means to the ends that people seek"

O nosso clássico, trabalhar os inputs, em vez dos outputs. Primeiro começamos com:

Think “input before output”

Em vez de ficarmos pelo que produzimos, encaramos como é que o cliente vai tratar o output como um input na sua vida. Para depois fazermos mais uma evolução, perceber que outcome o cliente pretende atingir ao usar o output como um input nos seus processos. Para chegar a:

Think “outcome before output”

Agora encontro um texto sobre o tema em "The “New You” Business": 

"The end goal of people who go to fitness centers isn’t access to the equipment or trainers; it is to get in shape. The overriding reason people go to their doctor or check into a hospital is not to obtain drug prescriptions, a medical examination, or therapeutic procedures; it is to get well. And students’ primary motive for going to college is not to buy a lot of books, have their papers and exams graded by professors, or even have the classroom and all-around college experience; it is to gain skills or expertise and pursue a career.

But all too often fitness centers, medical providers, colleges, and organizations in many other industries seek to distinguish themselves only on the quality, convenience, and experience of what they sell. It’s not that those things aren’t important. But they matter only as means to the ends that people seek. Too many organizations lose sight of this truth. Even when they do promote what they sell in relation to customers’ aspirations, they rarely design solutions that allow people to realize them.

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Enterprises should recognize the economic opportunity offered by the transformation business, in which they partner with consumers to improve some fundamental aspect of their lives—to achieve a “new you.”

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The goods, services, and even experiences a company offers matter only in how they help customers achieve their desired results. Each customer’s definition of success must therefore be the North Star that guides what a company does if it wants to compete on transformations."

Progressão da economia das experiências em tempos de confinamento

Em Maio de 2020 escrevi o postal "El coronavirus actúa como acelerador de cambios que ya estaban en marcha".

Uma das tendências que este blogue regista há vários anos é a da progressão da economia das experiências.

Esta entrevista com Joe Pine, sobre a progressão da economia das experiências em tempos de confinamento, é muito interessante.

Gostei sobretudo da progressão dos jogos de detectives. Pessoas que podem estar em diversos locais geograficamente fazem parte de equipa que através do Zoom procura resolver um mistério dentro de uma janela temporal.

"One of Pine’s favourite experiences during lockdown, he tells me, was by theatre and experience makers, Swamp Motel, who put on a hugely popular immersive online detective game called Plymouth Point. “You interact live with people to try and figure out what’s going on; it was a great experience,” he says. “That company has actually hired more people over the past year because what they’re doing is so successful.”

As the physical experience sector opens up, many of the lessons learned during the lockdowns will enable them to provide a better offer than before, says Pine. Here he sets out some of the biggest trends he’s seeing and what companies need to do to survive and thrive during the years ahead.

“One of the signs that the Experience Economy is very healthy is that whenever a place does open up to whatever capacity it can – guess what? It fills up to that limited capacity,” he says. “People will never stop wanting exciting and meaningful experiences.”"

De reter também a abordagem híbrida a quatro níveis. 

Produtividade é muito mais do que organização

“Comparando agora Portugal com a EU-14, o deficit de produtividade aumenta à medida que os produtos ou serviços são menos básicos e é mais possível fugir ao trabalho manual através da organização. [Moi ici: Come on, é muito mais do que organização. O erro é comparar produtividades e pensar que estamos a comparar numeradores iguais e, portanto, que as diferenças decorrem de denominadores diferentes. Um erro crasso!!!] 

Por exemplo nos metais básicos a produtividade portuguesa é 74% da dinamarquesa. Mas já nos produtos fabricados de metais é 40%. [Moi ici: Quando comparamos produtos básicos, comparamos produtos suficientemente parecidos. Aqui a questão da organização, da diferença no denominador, explicará parte da diferença. Contudo, nos produtos fabricados isso já não é suficiente porque sendo os produtos diferentes, o numerador é bem diferente] 

Face à Áustria, nos metais básicos a nossa produtividade é 50% e de apenas 33% nos produtos metálicos fabricados. As percentagens repetem-se face a outros países: EUA, 42% e 31%; ou Suécia, 54% e 37%, respectivamente.

Como se repetem em outras indústrias. Por exemplo na indústria farmacêutica (onde além dos genéricos e subcontratação de fabricação de químicos, há os medicamentos de marca) a produtividade de Israel é 2,6 vezes a nossa e a da Irlanda 7,5 vezes (já corrigida para retirar o efeito das multinacionais que usam a Irlanda apenas por razes fiscais).

Ou seja, à medida que os sectores são menos intensivos em trabalho (onde os ganhos de produtividade são mais difíceis) e mais intensivos em know-how, a produtividade portuguesa "derrapa" crescentemente face à Europeia.”

Primeiro, dois exemplos da metalomecânica, a Vipp dinamarquesa e a Marlin Steel americana. Exemplos que ilustram o que está em causa com casos concretos. Como escrevi em 2006:

"Na semana passada, ao procurar explicar o conceito de produtividade a um grupo de operários, um deles saiu-se com este exemplo: "O que está a dizer é que se pegarmos num metro quadrado de chapa e o utilizarmos para fazer um guarda-lamas de uma motorizada, teremos mais rendimento do que se o utilizarmos para fazer pás, ou enxadas." Eloquente!!!"

Segundo, alguns postais que ajudam a explicar estas diferenças de produtividade:

• Quando o sol se levanta será bom que corras (Junho de 2006)

Podemos vender trigo, ou vender farinha, ou vender bolos, ou organizar festas de aniversário com palhaços e tudo. Subindo na escala de valor, aumentamos a produtividade.

• Pregarás o Evangelho do Valor (Março de 2006)

 Aumenta-se muito mais a margem com o aumento de 1% no preço do que a reduzir 1% o custo fixo ou o custo variável.

Como é que se aumentam os preços sem perder clientes? Subindo na escala de valor, trabalhando na willingness to pay (WTP) dos clientes. O erro é trabalharmos para o output da nossa organização em vez de trabalhar para o outcome do cliente.(Abril de 2020)

• A originação de valor (parte I) (Outubro de 2008)

A típica empresa portuguesa está no estágio da extracção de valor. O mais básico de todos.

• Produtividade é muito mais do que organização, recordar aos engenheiros "Actualizem o documento por favor." (Março de 2009)

Trecho retirado de "Qual o antónimo de Luxemburgo?" publicado no semanário Vida Económica de 16 de Julho de 2021.

"time, attention, and money"

"But no matter what business you think you are in, recognize that because of the rise of today’s Experience Economy you now compete against the world. You may think your competition is only with other retailers, or only with other companies in your geographic area, but in fact you compete with every other company in the world for the time, attention, and money of individual consumers. There is a reason we use the word “spend” in front of each of these three nouns, for they are the currencies of the Experience Economy.
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And time is limited. We can only experience twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week – and we have to fit
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 you need to understand a fundamental principle of the Experience Economy: the experience is the marketing! The best way to generate demand for your retail stores – the mission of marketing – is to create an experience that is so engaging that consumers cannot help but spend time with you, give you their attention, and then buy your merchandise as a result."

Trechos retirados de "Your competition? The world"

Serviços vs experiências

"Look at the primary economic distinctions between services and experiences. First, services are intangible—having little or no materiality (as tangible goods do)—while experiences are memorable. If you do not create a memory, then you have not offered a distinctive experience. And while being “nice” is, well, nice, it’s rarely memorable. Instead of just being nice, design your interactions to be so engaging that customers cannot help but remember them—and tell others about them.
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Second, services are outwardly customized—done for an individual person (or company)—while experiences are inherently personal. If you do not reach inside of people and engage their hearts and/or minds, then you have not offered a distinctive experience. Engineering your processes to be “easy” actually tends to get in the way of making them personal, so instead always take into account the actual, living, breathing person in front of you, even if treating him or her individually gets in the way of greater efficiency.
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Third, services are delivered on demand—when the customer says this is what he wants—while experiences are revealed over a duration. If you do not let your experience unfold dramatically over the course of your interactions in a way that goes beyond the routine, then you have not offered a distinctive experience. Striving to be “convenient” drains the interaction of all drama, so instead stage the sequence of your interactions in a way that embraces dramatic structure, rising to a climax and then bringing your customers back down again in a personal and memorable way. That’s why  services are delivered while experiences are staged."

Trechos retirados daqui.

'Worth it' is a fine goal"

"Sort by price is the dominant way that shopping online now happens. The cheapest airline ticket or widget or freelancer comes up first, and most people click.
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It's lazy for the consumer. If you can't take the time to learn about your options, about quality, about side effects, then it seems like buying the cheapest is the way to go--they're all the same anyway, we think.
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And it's easy for the producer. Nothing is easier to improve than price. It takes no nuance, no long-term thinking, no concern about externalities. Just become more brutal with your suppliers and customers, and cut every corner you can. And then blame the system.
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The merchandisers and buyers at Wal-Mart were lazy. They didn't have to spend much time figuring out if something was better, they were merely focused on price, regardless of what it cost their community in the long run.
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We're part of that system, and if we're not happy with the way we're treated, we ought to think about the system we've permitted to drive those changes.
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What would happen if we insisted on 'sort by delight' instead?
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There are differences, and sometimes, those differences are worth what they cost.
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'Worth it' is a fine goal.
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What if, before we rushed to sort at all, we decided what was worth sorting for?
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Low price is the last refuge of the marketer who doesn't care enough to build something worth paying for.
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In your experience, how often is the cheapest choice the best choice?"

A fazer lembrar esta figura sobre o trabalho de Pine & Gilmore e a "experience economy":

De um lado o "saved" do outro o "well spent" tal como o "price vs delight".

Trechos retirados de "'Sort by price' is lazy"

Theatre vs Theater

Em 2005 ou 2006 li "The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage".
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Se repararem na foto do livro o título é "The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage". No entanto, se repararem no título da Amazom... "The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage".

"the authors challenge the reader’s perceptions and constraints of traditional business constructs. The title presents a shift of the reader’s attention from processes and procedures to those of performance and staging.
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Theatre is the performance.
Theater is the environment containing the performance.
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If this is true, then the title also creates a second challenge by asking; if work is theatre and every business a stage, then what type of guides must one follow in order to design the constructs for the work theater and the type of staging required to curate the experience? Some models of experiential design are needed to go beyond architectural design."

Nunca tinha pensado nesta nuance, theatre/theater, tão comum no inglês e que se perde no português (como, por exemplo, exploration vs exploitation").
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Trabalho é uma performance e todo o negócio é um palco. Como deve ser esse palco? Como é que esse palco contribui para a realização da performance e para a experienciação?

Trechos retirados de "Creating Experiential Places: A Case For Place Personae" de Kevin M. Dulle.

Puf! Não há magia!

Na segunda-feira, aproveitei o feriado do 13 de Junho em Estarreja e fui passar o dia no Porto passeando com a minha mulher.
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A meio da manhã resolvemos entrar numa das imensas leitarias que abriram na baixa da cidade para tomar um chá e trincar algo.
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Uma desilusão.
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Quando se entra numa leitaria, entra-se pela expectativa da experiência. E quando falamos de experiência:

"with experiences, customers pay for the time they spend with a company, rather than for the activites the company delivers"

Se os clientes pagam pelo tempo, o preço não tem nada a ver com os custos.

"to availability of commodities, cost of goods, and quality of service, businesses now [Moi ici: Os gestores] must add authenticity of experience as something to be managed.
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No longer content just with available, affordable, and excellent offerings, both consumers and business-to-business customers now purchase offerings based on how well those purchases conform to their own self-image. What they buy must reflect who they are and who they aspire to be in relation to how they perceive the world - with lightning-quick judgments of "real" or "fake" hanging in the balance.
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for to compete with such experiences, authenticity must become the primary source of differentiation for commodities as well as commoditized goods and services. ... To succeed, managers across most all industries must add to their expertise in supply-chain management, cost containment, and quality enhancement an understanding of what their customers consider real and fake—or at least which elements influence such consumer perceptions—about their company's offerings.
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understand that there is no such thing as an inauthentic experience—because experiences happen inside of us; they are our internal reaction to the events unfolding around us. How we react to what happens at a particular venue depends on who we are, what we've experienced before, how we feel at the time, who accompanies us, and so on. No two people ever experience anything alike. This intrinsic characteristic of experiences makes them inherently personal.
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Therefore, we remain free to judge our experiences with any economic offering as authentic or not. Businesses that offer them therefore can, whether intentionally or by happenstance, gain the perception of authenticity. The best word to describe this process is, once again, render. Businesses can render their inauthentic offerings as authentic. Doing so requires embracing this essential paradox: all human enterprise is ontologically fake—that is, in its very being it is inauthentic—and yet, output from that enterprise can be phenomenologically real—that is, it is perceived as authentic by the individuals who buy it."

E a experiência gerou um sentimento de fake-fake

Um espaço a tentar transmitir autenticidade, através da individualidade rústica, através da decoração. No entanto, o disco fica riscado quando:

• a oferta de chás resume-se às saquetas de marcas comerciais que vêm para a mesa para escolha do cliente, e que este pode comprar num Pingo Doce;
• a pastelaria é igual à das pastelarias mais recônditas deste país, sem um exemplar para amostra de algo feito na casa, de algo único, de algo específico;
• para cúmulo o bule e as chávenas trazem o logotipo da Sical e são de um branco imaculado.

Puf! Não há magia!

Trechos retirados de "Authenticity" de James Gilmore e Joseph Pine.

A economia das transformações

"The idea of staging a transformative experience, not only as marketing but as a product to be sold, is linked to the wider rise of the “Transformation Economy” as foreseen by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, who have long described product innovation in consumer markets as a multi-staged “progression of economic value” from commodities to goods to services to experiences to personal transformations, where a better you becomes the product.
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“When we buy experiences, those purchase make us happier than when we buy things,” says Pine, citing a 2014 Boston Consulting Group report which reveals that of the $1.8 trillion spent on “luxuries” in 2013, nearly $1 trillion, or 55 percent, was spent on luxury experiences. “Some large part of that trillion is luxury transformations: people looking to recharge, revitalise or to improve well-being in some way,” he continues.[Moi ici: E pensar na formação como fazendo parte desta economia das transformações?]
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Genuine transformations — though they may well drive sales of associated product — must come with a price tag of their own. “What turns something into an experience is when you charge for time,” Pine says. "An admission fee also sends a signal that this is an experience worth having.”"

Trechos retirados de "Is the New Luxury a Better You?"

Muito mais do que valor financeiro (parte VIII)

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

"How the experience economy will evolve
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The experience economy is a long-term underlying shift in the very structure of advanced economies and the forces of creative destruction take time.
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The shift into today’s experience economy comes with a number of implications that leaders should keep in mind as they manage their company’s shift from commodity trading, manufacturing and service providing or innovate wholly new businesses birthed in experiences:
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1. Mass customization is the route up the progression of economic value
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Companies should focus on reaching inside of the individual, living, breathing customer, making their offerings as personal and as individual as the customer
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2. Work is theatre. Business enterprises would gain an invaluable perspective simply by declaring their work to be theatre. For when a business sees its workplace as a bare stage, it opens up opportunities to distinguish itself from the myriad humdrum makers of goods and providers of services that perform work without recognizing the true nature of their acts. With theatre furnishing the operating model, even the most mundane of tasks can engage customers in a memorable way.[Moi ici: Quando li isto, juro, recuei logo até Dezembro de 2006]

3. Authenticity is the new consumer sensibility. Concomitant with the shift into the experience economy is a shift in the primary criterion by which people choose what to buy and from whom to buy. No matter the offering – commodity, good, service, experience or transformation – customers will judge it based on whether or not they view it as authentic – that is, whether or not it conforms to their own self-image.
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4. The experience is the marketing. Perhaps the worst offender when it comes to authenticity is advertising, as it has become a phoniness-generating machine. [Moi ici: Relacionar com o outro recorte que se segue mais abaixo] Companies should invest their marketing money in experience places. The best way to generate demand for any offering in today’s experience economy is with an experience so engaging that customers can’t help but pay attention and buy that offering. Marketing therefore needs to become placemaking, where companies create a portfolio of places, both real and virtual, to simultaneously render authenticity and generate demand."

Trechos retirados de "A leader's guide to innovation in the experience economy" de Pine e Gilmore, publicado em STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP, VOL. 42 NO. 1 2014, pp. 24-29

""“Marketing experiences are the new marketing,”
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“It is really important for CMOs to understand that brand architecture is sort of representative of a bygone era where brands would tell people through creative campaigns what that brand stood for and why you should care,”
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experiences are now the new brand.
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the need for CMOs to become “experience architects.”"

Trechos retirado de "Experiences Are The New Brand, And CMOs Are Their Architects"

... e as experiências

Depois de "É a experiência, estúpido!" e de "A economia de experiências a crescer no Algarve", ia escrever no título "O turismo e as experiências". Depois, recuei... não é só o turismo, é tudo. A experiência é o produto!
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A propósito de "Gamification in tourism: Designing memorable experiences (a book review)".

"the reasons why people play games, engage in tourism and why a tourism experience is memorable are similar, mainly: experiencing positive emotions, being highly engaged with an activity, deepening and expanding relationships, finding meaning and experiencing accomplishment. The most successful games and tourism experiences manage to accomplish all of these elements."

É a experiência, estúpido!

Mais um sintoma a juntar à lista que este blogue vai compilando ao longo dos anos acerca da economia baseada em experiências, "Stores Suffer From a Shift of Behavior in Buyers":

"Some retailers are struggling as shoppers prioritize experiences over goods.
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As Americans spend more money on doing things, not buying things, department stores are losing out.
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Analysts say a wider shift is afoot in the mind of the American consumer, spurred by the popularity of a growing body of scientific studies that appear to show that experiences, not objects, bring the most happiness. The Internet is bursting with the “Buy Experiences, Not Things” type of stories that could give retailing executives nightmares.
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“It’s becoming more and more about the experience — whether it’s going to a festival or sharing a car ride or going to a new city,”
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“The ‘pile it high and watch it fly’ mentality at department stores no longer works.”[Moi ici: Gente que trata os clientes como krill, como plancton]
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“And if they don’t see anything in stores they fancy, they’ll seek out experiences,” he said. “It’s experience versus the mundane.”"

Recordar:

• A economia de experiências a crescer no Algarve (Agosto de 2015)
•  Stuff vs experiences (Maio de 2015) 
• "uma oportunidade tremenda de se diferenciar" (parte IV) (Maio de 2015)
• "experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions" (Outubro de 2014)

Acerca da subida na escala de valor em negócios B2B

No final do e-mail vinha a frase:

"Fica para outra altura a reflexão sobre o realismo de estratégias de subida na escala de valor em negócios B2B. Parece-me que isso é mais fácil em negócios B2C."

A frase acompanhou-me durante todo o dia de ontem.
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De manhã, durante a subida da A25, pensava no quão perigosa pode ser... porque pode ser uma profecia que se auto-realiza. Se acredito que não é realista, já deixou de ser realista.
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É fácil? Claro que não!
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Ao final do dia, em conversa de despedida com o gestor de topo de uma empresa, ele contava-me um episódio do dia. Recebeu visita de fornecedor, conceituada marca de prestação de serviços, e disse-lhe algo como:

- Não me venham oferecer o mesmo que os outros. Vocês não têm preço para isso. Ofereçam-me este serviço X e este serviço Y. Não há ninguém no mercado a oferecê-los neste momento e, mais um ano ou dois e vou precisar de gente competente nessas áreas.

Commodities versus diferenciação.
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Na viagem de regresso, a descer a A25, houve uma imagem de 2006 que surgiu:

Por que é que é difícil subir na escala de valor?
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Porque, nos negócios, aquilo que é verdade hoje, amanhã é mentira! Aquilo que ontem era novidade, hoje é corriqueiro e amanhã será nota de rodapé.
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Quantas empresas estão disposta a investir de forma permanente nesta busca incessante?
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Disposta a investir em si e, dispostas a investir na descoberta e sedução dos clientes que valorizam algo mais do que o comum do mercado?
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No escritório, tenho 4 ou 5 caixas que foram para sapatos, onde guardo relíquias do passado - peças de telemóvel, moleskines preenchidos, relógios avariados, ... - uma caixa é uma caixa ponto. Há dias, visitei uma empresa que fabrica caixas. Uma caixa é um produto funcional, serve para transportar sapatos. Até que no final da visita fui presenteado com uma caixa... nunca mais verei uma caixa da mesma maneira. Uma caixa fora da caixa!!!
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Por alguma razão se exportam cada vez mais caixas vazias e montadas... porque têm muito valor acrescentado. São para o cliente clássico? Não!
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Não é fácil, mas é realista, muito realista.

Este é o erro principal de quem quer aumentar a produtividade

Neste postal "Confusões acerca da eficiência e da produtividade" comentei o artigo "Should Your Business Be Less Productive?".
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Agora, ao relê-lo, percebi que esqueci-me de comentar o lead:

"Many contemporary businesses are on a quest for productivity gains. They seek to maintain quality and quantity of output at ever-decreasing cost, yielding higher profitability. As advanced economies move more into the service sector, that means many managers devote a lot of attention to designing automated processes that reduce the need for people — typically their most expensive resource."

Este é o erro principal de quem quer aumentar a produtividade.

"They seek to maintain quality and quantity of output at ever-decreasing cost"

Aquele "mantendo a qualidade" afunila o campo de possibilidades

Rápido, o que é que é preciso para aumentar a produtividade, mantendo a qualidade e quantidade do que se produz?
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É preciso cortar!
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Sabem qual é o impacte dos cortes nas margens? Claro que sabem, Marn e Rosiello e muitos outros mostraram-nos este gráfico:

Voltemos ao texto acima:

"that means many managers devote a lot of attention to designing automated processes that reduce the need for people — typically their most expensive resource"

Pessoas são um custo fixo... qual o efeito do corte de 1% nos custos fixos?
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É só olhar para o gráfico.
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Qual o problema daquela frase inicial?
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É só olhar para o gráfico.
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Gilmore e Pine criaram esta figura para ilustrar a evolução económica:

Aquela frase inicial foi esculpida na pedra no tempo em que só se transaccionavam commodities. Hoje, num tempo em que as experiências se impõem, a melhor forma de aumentar a produtividade passa por melhorar, por aperfeiçoar a experiência. Se falarmos numa lógica de produto, podemos dizer que o truque é alterar, melhorar, aperfeiçoar a qualidade.
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Se o que oferecemos é diferente e melhor... pode ser vendido por um preço superior... qual o impacte desse aumento?
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É só ver o gráfico acima.
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Qual é o factor com maior efeito de alavanca?

Agricultura e a "economia da experienciação"

Um artigo de que gostei muito "Experience economy for understanding wine tourism" complementado com uma apresentação sobre o mesmo "An Experience Economy Approach to Enhancing Chautauqua-Lake Erie Area Wine Tourism":

Dá para equacionar formas interessantes de subir a rentabilidade das quintas de produção de vinho não com base no aumento das áreas de cultivo, mas com base na criação e no desenvolvimento profissional de todo um ecossistema baseado na experiência.
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O produto, o vinho, torna-se parte de uma oferta mais vasta, mais intangível, mais rica, mais pessoal.
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BTW, agora equacionem a mesma abordagem aplicada a uma unidade de produção de leite biológico, a uma unidade de produção de queijo, a unidades que façam parte de uma mesma região demarcada e que queiram colaborar na oferta de uma experiência que passe pelo queijo, vinho, birdwatching, frutos secos, por exemplo.
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Recordar:

"She began a summer camp in which kids spend a week caring for cows, learning about agriculture and running around a huge open space for $425 per week. Now the camp is almost as profitable as a year of milking cows. “That summer-camp program put me through Cornell,” Breanna says with a laugh. She’s also negotiating with a cheesemaker to turn their milk into high-value Fulper-branded cheese."

Trecho retirado daqui.

O consumo "experiencial" a crescer

Há anos li o livro "The Experience Economy" de Gilmore e Pine, uma leitura que me enriqueceu e que mexeu comigo para sempre:

A sua mensagem é cada vez mais actual:

"Ricos gastam mais com experiências do que com objetos"

"O consumo "experiencial" está superando rapidamente o consumo com produtos de luxo: na Europa, o primeiro cresceu 6% ao ano entre 2009 e 2011, contra 4% de crescimento nos produtos pessoais. Nos Estados Unidos, as porcentagens são de 9% e 6%, respectivamente.
Mesmo no aquecido mercado de artigos de luxo na China, o consumo com serviços de luxo subiu 28% no mesmo período, mais que o crescimento de 22% das compras de produtos como jóias e roupas de estilistas."

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