Eu não faria nada de diferente

"PSA corta no número de modelos e aposta no sector “premium” para regressar aos lucros"

Julgo que posso dizer que, como consultor, não faria nada de diferente.

"O grupo PSA vai baixar o número de modelos e apostar no sector “premium” para regressar aos lucros em 2018.
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O número de modelos disponível vai passar de 45 para 26 até 2022. Já a gama “DS”, destinada ao sector “premium” vai ser separada da “marca-mãe”, Citroën.
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O responsável pelo grupo PSA salientou também que “a cultura do lucro é algo que temos de colocar à frente de tudo o resto”. [Moi ici: Vai ser uma guerra bonita com os todo-poderosos sindicatos franceses]  Nos últimos dois anos e meio a marca registou perdas de 7,5 mil milhões de euros. [Moi ici: Por que será que a economia francesa se arrasta?]

Primeiro, estancar a hemorragia, cortar até chegar a um ponto de sustentabilidade. Aí é fundamental acabar com a grande dispersão de modelos.
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Segundo, separar a gama premium da outra. O marketing, a comunicação, a organização da produção tem de ser específica para cada sector.
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Terceiro, acabar com a paranóia da fixação na quota de mercado e seguir a máxima:

Volume is vanity

Profit is sanity 

 

 Permito-me recordar Steve Jobs:

"By September 1997, Apple was two months from bankruptcy. Steve Jobs, who had cofounded the company in 1976, agreed to return to serve on a reconstructed board of directors and to be interim CEO.
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What he did was both obvious and, at the same time, unexpected. He shrunk Apple to a scale and scope suitable to the reality of its being a niche producer in the highly competitive personal computer business. He cut Apple back to a core that could survive.
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Jobs cut all of the desktop models—there were fifteen—back to one. He cut all portable and handheld models back to one laptop. He completely cut out all the printers and other peripherals. He cut development engineers. He cut software development. He cut distributors and cut out five of the company’s six national retailers. He cut out virtually all manufacturing, moving it offshore to Taiwan. With a simpler product line manufactured in Asia, he cut inventory by more than 80 percent. A new Web store sold Apple’s products directly to consumers, cutting out distributors and dealers.
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The power of Jobs’s strategy came from directly tackling the fundamental problem with a focused and coordinated set of actions. He did not announce ambitious revenue or profit goals; he did not indulge in messianic visions of the future. And he did not just cut in a blind ax-wielding frenzy—he redesigned the whole business logic around a simplified product line sold through a limited set of outlets."

Trecho retirado de "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy - The Difference and Why it Matters" de Richard Rumelt.