- "You better not bake your costs into pricing" - um texto em sintonia com a mensagem deste blogue e em contramão, face à maioria dos economistas, políticos e comentadores (a tríade):
"customers are not paying to offset your costs. They are paying to fulfill their needs –utilitarian or hedonistic. It does not matter to them what your costs are or how you are allocating them. When was the last time you were at a coffee store and paid separately for employee salary or the decorative lighting?Enquanto os membros da tríade só pensam nos custos, este blogue pertence ao clube da minoria que prefere falar do preço, que prefere falar do valor co-criado. Por falar em valor co-criado:
It is not the cost that comes first, it is the price that comes first."
- "What Really Replaces Marketing (Madness).." - texto curto mas cheio de sumo, tenho de exercer uma forte contenção para não o colocar quase todo aqui:
"The bottom line in my thinking is that, since Value is dominantly created in-use and is a result of co-creation between company and Customer, marketing strategies should shift their focus from creating momentum for value exchange (the sale) to creating momentum for interactions that support Customers in creating value for themselves. And since value is something that can only be defined by its beneficiary we need to understand what outcomes Customers desire when they hire a company’s resources to get their jobs done. The Customer’s journey towards that outcome is where opportunity for marketing lies to design service that support Customers, employees and partners to co-create more (or better?) value together.""Service Dominant Logic, Customer Jobs-to-be-Done, Service Design" - BTW, ando a aprender umas coisas muitos interessantes sobre Customer Jobs-to-be-Done com Anthony Ulwick.
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Outro tema recorrente neste blogue é a tareia ao "eficientismo" acima de tudo, por isso:
- "Wrangling complexity: the service-oriented company" - texto que merecia uma reflexão séria pelos gestores da coisa pública, claro que deliro. Sobretudo, na área da Saúde, ou na área da Justiça, ou na área da Educação, com as suas instituições gigantes, lentas e comandadas a partir de Lisboa:
"Most businesses today are not designed with agility in mind. Their systems are tightly coupled, because their growth has been driven by a desire for efficiency rather than flexibility.
Consider the difference between a car on a road and a train on a train track. The car and the road are loosely coupled, so the car is capable of independent action. It’s more agile. It can do more complex things. The train and track are tightly coupled, highly optimized for a particular purpose and very efficient at moving stuff from here to there – as long as you want to get on and off where the train wants to stop. But the train has fewer options – forward and back. If something is blocking the track, the train can’t just go around it. It’s efficient but not very flexible.
Many business systems are tightly coupled, like trains on a track, in order to maximize control and efficiency. But what the business environment requires today is not efficiency but flexibility. So we have these tightly coupled systems and the rails are not pointing in the right direction. And changing the rails, although we feel it is necessary, is complex and expensive to do. So we sit in these business meetings, setting goals and making our strategic plans, arguing about which way the rails should be pointing, when what we really need is to get off the train altogether and embrace a completely different system and approach."
