terça-feira, abril 06, 2010
Para reflexão
segunda-feira, abril 05, 2010
Qual o propósito do artigo?
O sector concentra-se principalmente nas regiões da Beira Alta e Ribatejo, totalizando estas mesmas 83% da produção nacional, o que corresponde a 39% do total das explorações de Portugal e "é fortemente exportador", conclui o dirigente."
Decorre dos números ou é um apriori?
Como é o ecossistema da sua organização?
A figura procura ilustrar o ecossistema de uma empresa com duas unidades de negócio, cada uma com os seus clientes-alvo e cada uma com a sua proposta de valor.
Cada unidade de negócio procura obter a cooperação de diferentes grupos de prescritores para que influenciem cada grupo de clientes-alvo.
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Cozinheiros de César
Quem construiu Tebas, a das sete portas?
Nos livros vem o nome dos reis,
Mas foram os reis que transportaram as pedras?
Babilónia, tantas vezes destruída,
Quem outras tantas a reconstruiu? Em que casas
Da Lima Dourada moravam seus obreiros?
No dia em que ficou pronta a Muralha da China para onde
Foram os seus pedreiros? A grande Roma
Está cheia de arcos de triunfo. Quem os ergueu? Sobre quem
Triunfaram os Césares? A tão cantada Bizâncio
Só tinha palácios
Para os seus habitantes? Até a legendária Atlântida
Na noite em que o mar a engoliu
Viu afogados gritar por seus escravos.
O jovem Alexandre conquistou as Indias
Sozinho?
César venceu os gauleses.
Nem sequer tinha um cozinheiro ao seu serviço?
Quando a sua armada se afundou Filipe de Espanha
Chorou. E ninguém mais?
Frederico II ganhou a guerra dos sete anos
Quem mais a ganhou?
Em cada página uma vitória.
Quem cozinhava os festins?
Em cada década um grande homem.
Quem pagava as despesas?
Tantas histórias
Quantas perguntas
Nem sequer tinha um cozinheiro ao seu serviço?" É claro que tinha vários cozinheiros ao seu serviço! É claro que não o fez sozinho, que tinha as suas legiões consigo. É claro que César sem as legiões e sem os cozinheiros não teria ficado na História.
domingo, abril 04, 2010
Concentrar no valor
Na direcção certa
"Foi o antigo ministro da Agricultura que desmantelou a pouca estratégia nacional que existia para os cereais", garante Bernardo Albino, explicando que os agricultores, ao verem-se "exclusivamente por conta do mercado" e sem incentivos ao nível das políticas públicas, "optaram por direccionar os investimentos para outras áreas, como seria feito por qualquer outro empresário"."
sábado, abril 03, 2010
Os pregadores da economia socialista
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In such systems, there is no way to make things a little bit simpler – the whole edifice becomes a huge, interlocking system not readily amenable to change. Tainter doesn’t regard the sudden decoherence of these societies as either a tragedy or a mistake—”[U]nder a situation of declining marginal returns collapse may be the most appropriate response”, to use his pitiless phrase. Furthermore, even when moderate adjustments could be made, they tend to be resisted, because any simplification discomfits elites.
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When the value of complexity turns negative, a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes suddenly and dramatically simpler, which is to say right up to the moment of collapse. Collapse is simply the last remaining method of simplification."
que invista muito mais na criação e aproveitamento de oportunidades do que na resolução de problemas
sexta-feira, abril 02, 2010
Para reflexão
Engenheiros sociais
Não esquecer que a Europa é um continente envelhecido e a caminho do asilo
quinta-feira, abril 01, 2010
Gerações foram educadas, moldadas e conformadas pela teoria marxiana
Part IV - Concentração e aposta no lado errado
In the business of the future, effectiveness takes precedence over efficiency. A business does not exist to be efficient; it exists to create wealth for its customers. An obsessive compulsion to increase efficiency (doing things right) reduces the firm’s effectiveness at doing the right things. The pursuit of efficiency has hindered most companies’ capability to pursue opportunities, hence these organizations spend most of their time solving problems. One cannot grow a company and continuously cut costs and increase efficiency.
It is not that efficiency is bad, per se, it is that it is being pursued at the expense of nearly everything else. To add insult to injury, the efficiency measures that do exist in the modern organization tend to be lagging indicators that measure efforts and activities, not leading indicators that measure results and define success the same way the customer does.
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The word “efficiency” has been deliberately replaced with “effectiveness,” bowing to the observation that a business does not exist to be efficient, but rather effective. What happens if you are 100 percent efficient at doing the wrong thing? Effectiveness, on the other hand, stresses the power to produce a particular effect, in this case, something of value for customers. Still, this word, too, is not quite precise enough at describing the effect a modern firm is trying to create."
quarta-feira, março 31, 2010
Agarrados a paradigmas ultrapassados
A propósito de “Banco de Portugal projecta crescimento mais baixo este ano e no próximo”
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Se não gostamos dos resultados, se não gostamos do comportamento, temos de mudar, temos de transformar as estruturas sistémicas.
“So, how do we change the structure of systems to produce more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable?”
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“This idea of leverage points is not unique to systems analysis—it’s embedded in legend: the silver bullet; the trimtab; the miracle cure; the secret passage; the magic password; the single hero who turns the tide of history; the nearly effortless way to cut through or leap over huge obstacles.
We not only want to believe that there are leverage points, we want to know where they are and how to get our hands on them. Leverage points are points of power.”
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“Paradigms are the sources of systems. From them, from shared social agreements about the nature of reality, come system goals and information flows, feedbacks, stocks, flows, and everything else about systems.”
Como não se vai ao fundo da questão… como só se fazem remendos, estica-se o paradigma até à última: “Fórum para a Competitividade sugere aumento do IVA” mesmo quando já está podre e obsoleto.
“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to “get” at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny. It is to let go into not-knowing, into what the Buddhists call enlightenment.
People who cling to paradigms (which means just about all of us) take one look at the spacious possibility that everything they think is guaranteed to be nonsense and pedal rapidly in the opposite direction. Surely there is no power, no control, no understanding, not even a reason for being, much less acting, embodied in the notion that there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose. If you have no idea where to get a purpose, you can listen to the universe.”
terça-feira, março 30, 2010
Parte III - Concentração e aposta no lado errado
Revenue = Capacity X Efficiency X Cost-Plus Price
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"Next is cost-plus pricing, a direct cousin of the Dupont return on investment formula. But the real ancestor of cost-plus pricing is the Labor Theory of Value, posited by economists of the eighteenth century and Karl Marx in the middle nineteenth. This theory was almost immediately shown to be false—in terms of its ability to explain, predict, or prescribe—as a method of determining value in a marketplace. Fortunately, a better theory was posited, known as the Subjective Theory of Value—that is, ultimately, the person paying for an item, not the seller’s internal overhead, desired profit, or labor hours, determines the value of anything. Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
The offense of believing internal costs have anything to do with value is serious. A business should be judged—and price-based—on the results and wealth it creates for its customers. The cost-plus pricing paradigm is not worthy of businesses operating in an intellectual capital economy, and it is time we throw it on the ash heap of history. It is an idea from the day before yesterday.
segunda-feira, março 29, 2010
Fazer o teste
Context: No solution should be developed and delivered in isolation, but should recognize its context in terms of time, place and culture.
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Parte II - Concentração e aposta no lado errado
Revenue = Capacity X Efficiency X Cost-Plus Price
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Efficiency is a word that can be said with perfect impunity, since no one in their right mind would dispute the goal of operating efficiently. In fact, it is well known that in free market economies, efficiency is critical, as it ensures a society’s resources are not going to waste. It is also well established that different levels of productivity largely explain differences in wages across countries. An American farmer will earn more plowing with a tractor than a Cuban farmer with an ox and hand plow; the American farmer is more productive, hence higher wages and more profits.
There is no doubt that increasing efficiency—or at least not sliding into inefficiency—is important. But the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of efficiency over everything else. It seems innovation, dynamism, customer service, investments in human capital, and effectiveness have all been sacrificed on the altar of efficiency. It is critical to bear in mind that a business does not exist to be efficient; rather, it exists to create wealth for its customers. This wealth creation function can be thought of as the difference between the maximum price a customer would be willing to pay minus the opportunity costs of the activities necessary to bring to market the product or service.
Peter Drucker was fond of pointing out that the last buggy-whip manufacturers were models of efficiency. So what? What happens if you are efficient at doing the wrong things? That cannot be labeled progress. In fact, one indicator an industry is in the mature or decline stage of the product/service life cycle is when it is at the apogee of its theoretical level of efficiency.
The point is this: In industry after industry, the history of economic progress has not been to wring out the last 5 to 10 percent of efficiency, but rather to change the model to more effectively create wealth."
Continua.