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Por vezes, as empresas sabem que alguma coisa está mal, sentem a comichão, sentem a incomodidade, conhecem os sintomas. Contudo, não percebem qual é o problema, não conseguem enquadrá-lo, não conseguem defini-lo claramente.
"O ex-ministro das Finanças disse também que a crise não está no euro, mas sim na desindustrialização do mundo ocidental em contraponto com os países emergentes e da Ásia."Embora não siga a cartilha proteccionista de Medina Carreira, há muito que escrevo aqui neste blogue que o desafio não é o euro, foi a China. Por exemplo:
"Medina Carreira afirmou hoje no parlamento, comentando a última reforma laboral, que Portugal deve "copiar" os seus directos adversários da competitividade em vez de se entreter "com tretas".Muitos empresários pensam como Medina Carreira, acreditam na competição assente em ser o melhor. Pelo contrário, muito boa gente que tem dedicado a sua vida ao estudo da estratégia recomenda:
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"Devemos comparar o código laboral de Portugal com a Hungria ou a República Checa e ver o que temos de fazer, é simples", frisou."
"Michael Porter has a name for this syndrome. He calls it competition to be the best. It is, he will tell you, absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. If you start out with this flawed idea of how competition works, it will lead you inevitavitably to a flawed strategy. And that will lead to mediocre performance."(1)Ainda há dias falamos sobre o perigo da paridade aqui:
"So if reaching parity—being as good as others—is a bad idea, isn’t being the best a great idea? Maybe not. Striving to be the best at everything, to be the best in your industry, can be an all too common misstep."Agora imaginem que Portugal copiava, igualava os códigos laborais da Hungria ou da República Checa... sim, o que é que ia acontecer? Competir por salários?
"Selling a $27,000 camera is no snap—especially when that hefty price doesn’t even include the lens. For Leica Camera, the challenge is compounded by the fact that it has lost more than a third of its U.S. dealers, who have fallen victim to competition from the likes of Best Buy (BBY) and Costco Wholesale (COST)."
"So at a time when an increasing number of brands are bolstering their ability to sell online, the German camera maker is rolling out its own stores to woo serious photography buffs."
"Leica’s first U.S. outlet opened in Washington, D.C., last month, and the company is rolling out two more stores in Miami and New York this summer. By March 2016, Leica says its current roster of 37 stores will have grown to 200 worldwide. They’ll stock a range of models from the entry-level $700 V-Lux 40 point-and-shoot camera to the top-of-the-line $27,000 S2."
"“It is a high-risk strategy,” says Walter Loeb, president of retail consulting firm Loeb Associates. “Leica needs to establish itself more directly in the U.S., but it’s a small market for high-priced cameras, and it’s highly competitive.”
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Leica is opening stores at a time when U.S. consumers are buying fewer cameras, given the quality and convenience of taking photos with smartphones such as Apple (AAPL)’s iPhone."
"Leica’s new stores are luxurious and minimalist, like its cameras. The outlets feature black leather furniture from Germany and gray tiles from Italy. The sole color accent: the red featured in the Leica logo. Stores include a retail space, a studio area to demonstrate products, and a gallery—to exhibit photographs shot with Leica cameras—that can be converted into a lecture room for the company’s Leica Akademie photography courses."Esta descrição da distribuição do espaço nas lojas é interessante e, deveria chamar a atenção dos lojistas que se sentem ameaçados pelo online... um espaço para a interacção, para a aprendizagem, para a partilha...
“We stand for a certain image of quality, and this is something we wanted to show in this environment,” says Schopf, who wouldn’t say how much Leica is spending on the stores. “We are showing a dedication to the quality of photography.”"
"The bottom line: Mimicking luxury clothing designers, pricey camera maker Leica will open 160 of its own stores by 2016 to sell the allure of photography."
"A ATP sempre defendeu que a dimensão é crítica para as empresas poderem sobreviver aos tempos difíceis, e mesmo para além deles. Ser grande pode não ter muito significado para uma empresa industrial, pois a reduzida dimensão pode até conferir vantagens do ponto de vista da flexibilidade e reactividade, hoje indispensáveis para o modelo de negócio em que ainda somos competitivos, mas já tem muita importância ter maior dimensão numa perspectiva comercial, pois aí confere capacidade negocial, ao comprar melhor e ao vender com mais margem."BTW I, sim, é verdade, Espanha representa uma fatia perigosamente grande das nossas exportações de vestuário:
"A situação económica da União Europeia é um forte motivo de preocupação para a indústria têxtil e de vestuário, uma vez que se trata do espaço comercial para o qual tradicionalmente se dirigem as nossas exportações. Cerca de 85% de tudo que vendemos ao exterior vai para a Europa, com destaque para a Espanha. As perspectivas económicas menos positivas, e até negativas, que estão a desenhar-se na União Europeia e, em especial, em Espanha constituem motivo de apreensão e razão suficiente para olharmos o futuro com alguma inquietação, e, sobretudo, muita prudência."But, always look on the bright side of life, ...
"O grupo Inditex, dono da Zara, obteve lucros líquidos de 432 milhões de euros no primeiro trimestre fiscal (Fevereiro a Abril), o que representa mais 30 por cento relativamente ao período homólogo de 2011."Sim, OK, não é clara qual a parcela destes lucros que se referem ao mercado europeu. Contudo:
"Inditex is becoming less-reliant on sales in Spain, its home market, where it has 1,932 stores. But even though the Spanish economy is sinking into recession and consumption is down sharply, Inditex managed to eke out 1% sales growth from its Spanish stores."BTW II,
"Analysts say Inditex has performed better in the economic downturn than rivals such as Gap Inc and Hennes & Mauritz AB, because of the tight control it has over production and the speed with which it can get the latest trends from the design table to stores."
"At the heart of its business model is a complex logistics system and heavy use of information technology to track data on consumer tastes gathered at each of its stores around the world. It also makes half of what it sells close to its headquarters and delivers new garments in small batches to all of its stores in 82 countries on five continents by plane or truck twice a week."Agora para a tríade:
"The system makes production costlier, but the model has also proven successful during the economic downturn of recent years, because Inditex can adapt more quickly to the ebb and flow of demand."
"A lot of companies ignore beauty. But this utilitarian -- and rather boring -- take on business is going out of favor in many sectors. That’s because we’re not just moving into the knowledge economy, but into the experience economy."Sim, a sua empresa pode oferecer o serviço mais básico, mais simples, mais padronizado, mais barato e... mais copiável.
"“To truly innovate today, designing new products or features or services won't get you there. Only by designing new customers--thinking of their future state, being the conduit to their evolution--will you transform your business.""Designing new customers"? Que maneira esquisita de pôr a questão...
"Yet even as appliance sales in Europe’s biggest countries stagnate, Bertazzoni remains bullish, expecting revenue growth to top 18 percent this year, to €70 million ($88.5 million), after jumping 23 percent in the first quarter."Um membro da tríade (alguém que só conhece o preço como variável para seduzir clientes) estranhará!!!
"a maker of high-end kitchen appliances in the northern Italian town of Guastalla..."Quem são os clientes-alvo? Por que é que alguém há-de comprar um fogão topo de gama?
“There is a significant group of customers whose aspirations and lifestyle give a central role to cooking for the family. Our products are made to respond to this desire with style.”Os produtos vistos como um recurso, vistos como um instrumento, a serem utilizados pelos clientes na sua vida para obterem algo relevante na sua vida. Os produtos têm de se integrar na sua vida:
"especially the U.S. Bertazzoni has redesigned some products to suit American tastes, including super-sizing ovens so they can accommodate massive Thanksgiving turkeys."Recordo a história da Coca-cola que começou a vender garrafas familiares na Europa semelhantes às que vendia nos EUA... fracasso. Os frigoríficos europeus não são os apartamentos que são os americanos. É preciso ir ver como vivem os clientes.
"The company’s ovens and stoves come in eight bright colors, including top sellers inspired by Lamborghini’s yellow and the signature red of Ferrari. The latter is headquartered in Maranello, just 40 minutes (or less in a Ferrari) from Bertazzoni’s headquarters. “Proximity to the world of luxury cars allows us to access special suppliers,” ... “Producing and selling a product that is well-designed or badly designed costs exactly the same amount of money,” says Bertazzoni, the fifth generation of his family to run the company. “Style is part of the products we manufacture.”"A aposta na tecnologia:
"Last year Bertazzoni introduced high-definition touch screens about the size of an iPhone to control its ovens. The screens let users control “the Assistant”—software with a bank of cooking sequences such as dehydration, turbo, and Shabbat mode."E, assim, tal como no calçado, o preço deixa de ser um order-winner e passa a ser um order-qualifyer, ao ler o que se segue recordar que, depois de aumentarem o preço, cresceram 23% no primeiro trimestre:
"One big hurdle has been soaring prices for raw materials. While profits still rose last year, their growth slowed as purchases of stainless steel, aluminum, and copper “strongly weighed” on expenses, Bertazzoni says. To make up the difference, Bertazzoni analyzed his prices and concluded that a few items, such as professional ranges, had enough of an advantage over rivals’ products that he could charge as much as 8 percent more for them. For other products with less differentiation from competitive offerings, he bumped prices up by 3 percent or less."O que está por detrás disto?
"The company benefits from “a clear vision of the business by the owner family, who’s personally involved in the management,”".
"For decades, businesses have sought technology, features, and optimizations to maintain or increase an advantage over their competitors. But the value of investing solely in these things has reached an end. The experiences people have with your products and services is the real differentiator, a strategy that must be explored and embraced in our changing world.
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In the 20th century, in addition to an emphasis on computerization and globalization, business management focused heavily on optimization. The early days of business management began with economic theory and the work of Fredrick Taylor, who performed time and motion studies in factories to scientifically examine and select the most efficient working methods....If we fast-forward to the latest trends in business management from the past decade, you’ll see the same focus on optimization in the popular Six Sigma and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) practices."
"....Because techniques of operational efficiency such as Dell’s lean, supply chain management have become increasingly well-known and easily practiced, they’re no longer the big competitive advantages they used to be. Aiming to be better at an activity that everyone else has mastered isn’t a strategy. Strategy is about tradeoffs—purposefully choosing tactics different than those used by your competition. Strategy means saying no to some activities so you can excel at others. And the result of these strategic tradeoffs is products and services that are clearly distinguished in customers’ minds, with meaningful differences that can’t easily be replicated by others. .Today, as the benefits of organizational efficiency have decreased, businesses are looking for new approaches to create value for customers and for themselves. The narrow focus on the bottom line—and all the post-profit savings that were created by being efficient—has changed to a focus on the top line, where revenues can be increased by finding new customers and defining new offerings."
"It’s the marketing MBA’s favorite tool. It gets rolled out at meeting after meeting in all of its analytical, bean-counting glory: the dreaded feature matrix, a document created by some assistant-of-something who compiled a list of all of the companies that might be considered competitors, cataloged all of their products’ “features,” and tallied the results in a giant matrix.It’s a very logical, thorough approach. By comparing you to your competitors apples-to-apples and oranges-to-oranges, you find where you’re ahead, where you’re lagging, and where you’re absolutely not represented. Unfortunately, the typical response is to focus on the deficient or missing “features.” That makes sense: who would want to face the new VP when he’s smoldering over the competitor’s market-leading Automated Configuration Wizard that you don’t even have a response to? The natural response is to seek parity with your competition."O que estava na base da justificação da minha escolha? (passo 5 acima).
"But what is parity? It’s sameness. It’s removing differentiation between you and the competition. It’s looking only to your competitors for what defines your offering. From your customer’s viewpoint, if you’ve reached parity with your rivals then there’s no discernable difference between you and anyone else. The experience can become so banal and impotent that it either ceases to exist, or only the negative aspects of the experience (usability issues, for example) are notable. Avoid the pitfall of parity. Avoid the feature wars, vying to have more bullet points on your packaging and spec sheets than your rivals.Different is good. Competitive strategy is based on doing things differently than your competitors, and demonstrating the worth of those differences to customers."E voltamos a Youngme Moon e ao seu "Different" e ao perigo da satisfação dos clientes se tornar num enorme nivelador
"So if reaching parity—being as good as others—is a bad idea, isn’t being the best a great idea? Maybe not. Striving to be the best at everything, to be the best in your industry, can be an all too common misstep. The problem with this thinking is that you can’t be the best at everything, and besides, being the best depends entirely on who’s doing the judging."Porter, como recorda recentemente Joan Magretta, aconselha a fugir da batalha por ser o melhor. Aconselha antes abraçar o desafio de ser diferente!!!
"Strategies of parity are low value and short-lived. Strategies of delivering new offerings for novelty’s sake won’t survive much further than the infomercial. These approaches center on features and technologies rather than focusing on the one thing that really matters—the experience. But even though experience matters to everyone, we almost always losesight of it in product development.…to the customers the experience they have is the only thing that matters. Customers rightfully have little appreciation for the technical workings of a product. Beyond the interface, everything else might as well be magic. Think about a light switch. You flip a switch; a light turns on. How many of us care how it works? Or you put things in the refrigerator, and a day later, when you take them out, they’re cold. Magic. You pick up a handset, press seven or ten digits, and are talking to someone far away. Magic."A experiência é o produto!
"1- os negs Mai's interessantes nao Sao os premiados.
Proposta M++ : o bm é a propria co-criaçao de valor. Concorda?"
"A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value"
"In a way, thinking small is the next logical step in America’s urban renaissance. When cities really started changing 10 or 15 years ago, the economy was booming and the Internet was a newfangled gizmo. Today, cities have less money but more ways to communicate, two conditions perfectly suited to more focused, low-cost planning. ... “We try to distinguish tactical urbanism from DIY urbanism and other similar movements,” says Lydon. “The intent is always to make something long-term and permanent.” In essence, cheap, ephemeral projects act as advertisements for better infrastructure. ... Just three years later, cities have learned that smaller and cheaper, even if initially flimsy, is a smarter way to start."
"As global trends have developed, business management has come to rely on efficiency, optimization, and quality management to deliver value. The good news is that these approaches have worked, and worked well. Many organizations have become very lean, wasting less time, allowing fewer defects, and adopting more efficient processes. Ironically, the bad news is that this type of business optimization is increasingly common place. The processes for measuring and controlling efficiency are well known and well-documented, and so in today’s world they no longer provide a significant competitive advantage.A experiência é o produto!!!
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We live in an increasingly uncertain world, where the tools that served us well for so long no longer do. Technology isn’t sufficient; we can’t simply add features to attract an audience. There is no more efficiency to squeeze out of our operations, nor defects to remove from our products. How do we deliver great products and services in an uncertain world? The thing to keep in mind, not just in the abstract, but truly and viscerally, are your customers and their abilities, needs, and desires. When you do that, when you truly empathize with the people you serve, you’ll realize that for them the experience is the product we deliver, and the only thing they truly care about."
"Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be. We also tend to exaggerate our ability to forecast the future, which fosters optimistic overconfidence. In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases."A propósito de "Americans Positive About Their Local Economy" onde se pode ler:
"While Americans remain anxious about global and national economic conditions, their views of their local economies are considerably more positive"Até que ponto, para além do natural optimismo, isto não é, também, um sintoma da obsolescência de uma série de indicadores que nos últimos 50 anos foram desenvolvidos para medir o estado de bem-estar das sociedades ocidentais?
"Se um desconhecido lhe disser que há uma empresa que fabrica trens de cozinha, mobiliário urbano e artigos para jardim isso é... Silampos. A empresa de Cesar, nas proximidades de Oliveira de Azeméis já ultrapassou os 60 anos e há muito que deixou de significar apenas os conjuntos de artefactos que equipam as imensas cozinhas nacionais. A empresa liderada por Aníbal Campos está a apostar numa política de marketing atenta a novas oportunidades de mercado e cruzou o know-how no fabrico peças em alumínio com o design. Portanto, quando colocar papéis numa papeleira de recolha selectiva não estranhe se a peça tiver a assinatura Silampos."Qual é o risco desta abordagem? Qual é o risco da diversificação de mercados?
"The balanced scorecard is not a template that can be applied to businesses in general or even industrywide. Different market situations, product strategies, and competitive environments require different scorecards. Business units devise customized scorecards to fit their mission, strategy, technology, and culture. In fact, a critical test of a seorecard's success is its transparency: from the 15 to 20 scorecard measures, an ohserver should he ahle to see through to the husiness unit's competitive strategy."Volta e meia perguntam-me ou pedem-me um BSC para uma empresa têxtil, ou um BSC para um restaurante, ou um BSC para uma loja de vestuário, ou ...
"O ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros anunciou hoje a assinatura de oito contratos fiscais com empresas que resultarão num investimento de 157 milhões de euros na economia portuguesa e contribuirão para criar 352 postos de trabalho.Se não me engano, são cerca de 42 mil euros por posto de trabalho criado.
O Estado português vai conceder incentivos fiscais no valor de dez por cento deste investimento, cerca de 15 milhões de euros."
"Co-evolution doesn't rest there - it is not just the interaction of customers and providers. You also have to consider the broader eco-system. Take, for example, Apple. Through the Apps store and through Apps themselves, Apple have created a platform that allows others to offer services (Apps) to customers. The three parties involved - Apps developers, Apple and the customers - are jointly co-evolving the business model. This raises an interesting question - how good are you are co-evolving your business model with your customers? Have you created a platform that allows the customers to find new ways of creating value? And if so, are you capable of spotting these customer innovations and incorporating them into your business model to allow the next round of co-evolution?"Co-criação e co-evolução não são incompatíveis. Se pensarmos para lá da relação diádica fornecedor-cliente, podemos pensar no ecossistema, uma realidade mais alargada.
"Paradoxically, the most enduring competitive advantages in a global economy seem to be local"Escreveu Porter, em 1998, em "The Competitive Advantage of Nations".
"Data on self-employment and freelance is limited because labor reporting has yet to adapt, but one indisputable metric is the rise of micro-entrepreneurship platforms and its contribution to a Do-it-Yourself Economy.Sublinho:
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What defines this new economy is that it’s built on the empowerment of individuals and the technology that enables this. It’s allowing individuals to create their own jobs. It’s a celebration of life and time, and a shift in perspective of money. Technology now provides an opportunity for people anywhere in the world to monetize their passions. And it’s not just the artists and under-employed flocking to these platforms, but professionals who seek a higher quality of life, greater flexibility, and more time with their families."
"Customers use micro-entrepreneurship platforms for many of the same reasons that the entrepreneurs themselves do:E mesmo nesta reacção inteligente "Têxteis e calçado recusam abandonar a Europa" das nossas PMEs vejo a confiança em muitos destes factores (2flexibilidade, 4autenticidade, 5experiência, 6proximidade)
- 1Price: Buying from individuals on these platforms often means getting a much better deal than buying from a large company or professional service.
- 2Flexibility: Customers crave greater personalization and customization in goods and services than ever before. They want to choose when they get it, how, and for how much. These platforms accommodate individual needs much more than old ways of buying.
- 3Ease of use: One of the top reasons people like these platforms is because they make it easy to search, find, and purchase exactly what you’re looking for in once place. And user-friendly design makes all of these platforms easier to use than many e-commerce sites.
- 4Authenticity: Buying directly from the individual artist, homeowner, painter, or food enthusiast often provides greater quality and the confidence that you’re getting the real deal.
- 5Unique experience: Transportation, accommodation, getting groceries, and visiting local sites are no longer commodities but memorable, enriching experiences that last forever.
- 6It’s good for the world: Responsible commerce is important to a growing number of consumers, and with these platforms they have the satisfaction of knowing that money goes back to small business owners and the local community, thereby fueling the economy and reducing waste."
"Many economies, reflecting the economic orthodoxy of the time – Wales is a case in point - had since the end of World War Two, based economic development policies on inward investment from external donating regions. This invariably meant the attraction of large (usually manufacturing) plants yet this policy has served to militate against the dynamism inherent in enterprise. As long ago as 1971, the Bolton Report (CMND 4811, 1971) warned that we fear that an economy dominated by large firms cannot for long avoid ossification and decay and that we can think of no substitute for the dynamic influence of new forms in preventing the ossification of the economy"E numa época como a que vivemos, em que os modelos que triunfaram no século XX estão a definhar e a ser corroídos ...
"The challenge—and the opportunity—for companies is profound. Consumers aren’t simply rejecting questionable prices; they’re rejecting many firms’ fundamental approach to making money....
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Here’s the problem: Companies have traditionally treated value in the marketplace as a fixed pie and have reasoned that they must compete with their customers to appropriate as much of it as those customers will relinquish. Whatever value they can extract is value customers miss out on, and vice versa. What’s more, firms have presumed that they are the rightful owners of value and are therefore entitled to charge whatever the market will bear. To that end, they have treated pricing as an optimization problem, pricing mechanically in the pursuit of profit and routinely exploiting any consumer disadvantage, such as a lack of information or understanding, limited attention, or limited choice.
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But value neither originates with nor belongs solely to the firm. Without a willing customer, there is no value. Therefore, value must be shared by a firm and its customers. (Moi ici: E sublinho fortemente o que se segue, ainda ontem numa empresa referi a importância da co-produção, do co-design, da customização) In addition, value is not the fixed pie that most companies imagine; rather, it can be enlarged through collaboration with customers, such as when a firm provides a well-crafted discount that not only boosts sales and encourages referrals but also promotes the brand and builds loyalty."
"Traditional pricing strategy is by definition antagonistic, but it needs to become a more socially conscious, collaborative exercise. Businesses should look beyond the dry mechanics of “running the numbers”—still relevant but no longer sufficient—and recognize that humanizing the way they generate revenue can open up opportunities to create additional value. (Moi ici: Em vez de criar usaria o termo co-criar) That means viewing customers as partners in value creation—a collaboration that increases customers’ engagement and taps their insights about the value they seek and how firms could deliver it. The result is a bigger pie, which benefits firms and customers alike."
"A feira de tecidos Tissu Premier estreia nesta edição de primavera a sua nova área dedicada à fast fashion, uma forma de responder às necessidades do mercado, sem descurar a sua especialidade, os tecidos.Tal como a uma equipa que está a ganhar um desafio de basquetebol, ou de andebol, interessa aumentar o ritmo do jogo, para tirar mais partido do momentum vencedor, também a nossa indústria precisa de apoiar forte e feio, e tirar partido deste acelerar associado às pequenas séries, reposições rápidas, muita variedade, muita interacção com os clientes.
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Esta última área, designada Collections, surgiu como uma resposta da Eurovet, a entidade responsável pela organização da feira, ao mercado, após a realização de um inquérito ter demonstrado a procura por um sourcing de proximidade."
"industrial value production was conceptualized in terms of the value chain. With the chain concept, value creation is not only sequential, but also implies that value is ‘added.’Assim, quando uma empresa deste campeonato, por exemplo com o apoio de fundos comunitários, subcontrata o desenvolvimento de um novo produto muito mais "produzido", carregado de "boas especificações", ou copia um desses produtos que viu numa feira no expositor de um concorrente, ou, finalmente, consegue que o seu recém-criado departamento de inovação ponha cá fora um desses produtos, normalmente segue-se o insucesso.
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For producers, industrial value was ‘realized’ in the transaction which joined and separated them from customers. Value here equaled the price which the customer paid: ‘in competitive terms, value is the amount buyers are willing to pay for what a firm provides them’; or, ‘value is what customers are willing to pay’."
"value should be approached as a customer-constructed concept rather than being production-oriented and managed by the firm. A consequence of this shift in perspective is that the customer should be regarded as a subject rather than an object in the process of value creation. In order to understand value creation from a customer perspective we hence need to a) analyze the customer’s own process rather than the service provider’s process, and b) acknowledge the customer as the prime subject in this process rather than the service provider.Onde está o investimento na interacção com o cliente? As coisas não têm valor intrínseco, o valor é atribuído pelos clientes.
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But good is not a property of the thing, neither is value. Good should instead be described as a property of the concept, i.e. the individual’s interpretation of his values, desires, and preferences.
Goodness and value of objects then become related to what individuals want objects to be and do for them, i.e. the role they want goods, services, and relationships to various actors on the market to have in their lives. With reference to the axiological research tradition, we propose that the good, and hereby also value, is based on the constructs of individual perceptions rather than being a function of the qualities or attributes of a
certain offering. The essence of value creation seems to be related to how and why the customer utilises an object in terms of an individual havingbeing- doing approach. The object needs to gain value for the customer as an individual, and this becomes possible only when the object is enclosed within his/her own value creating activities. The salient role of the customer in the process of value creation is hereby accentuated – the customer is not only the prime subject in the process, he also engenders value in a process of internal interactions between experiences and his conception of the good."
"It is widely believed that restructuring has boosted productivity by displacing low-skilled workers and creating jobs for the high skilled."Mas, e como isto é profundo:"In essence, creative destruction means that low productivity plants are displaced by high productivity plants." Por favor voltar a trás e reler esta última afirmação.
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"Lovaglia’s Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."
"If an organisation is too stable it can ossify, but if it is too unstable it can disintegrate. Successful organisations work between these two conditions or states, in what Stacey called ‘the chaos zone’."
"If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost,"
“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required”.
"Das Leben, das uns gegeben ist, ist uns nicht als etwas Fertiges gegeben, sondern wir müssen es uns gestalten, und zwar jeder sein eigenes."
"Eine Regierung, die nichts wert ist, kostet am meisten."
"Forget trying to persuade them; light their pants on fire."
"O futuro é o que importa. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio"
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
"o Marketing só existe a partir do pensamento estratégico, caso contrário "não resulta""
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
"Perder diversidade é como arrancar páginas de um livro. Quantas páginas poderemos arrancar até deixar de compreender o enredo?"
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"By strategy, I mean a cohesive response to a challenge. A real strategy is neither a document nor a forecast but rather an overall approach based on a diagnosis of a challenge. The most important element of a strategy is a coherent viewpoint about the forces at work, not a plan."
"Un desastre està punt de succeir a Espanya. El malentès de la gravetat de la crisi costarà car als inversors, ja que tindrà profundes conseqüències per a tot el sistema bancari europeu", afirma.
Entre d'altres coses, Mauldin diu que "els inversors estan fumant crack si creuen que els bancs espanyols són entre els més forts d'Europa, ja que estan amagant les seves pèrdues".
“… there are no “sunset” industries condemned to disappear in high wage economies, although there are certainly sunset and condemned strategies, among them building a business on the advantages to be gained by cheap labor”
"o vencedor da vida, o optimista que vive em incesto com o próprio ego, é o traço mais frágil do líder"
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much
that we have done was very foolish."
You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
“Trust your guts. But not too much!”
"Customers will try 'low-cost providers,' because the majors have not given them any clear reason not to." "
"Natal é quando as Crianças pedem e os Pais pagam. Défices é quando os Pais pedem e as Crianças pagam."
"A imprevidência dos povos é infinita, a dos governos é legal"
"What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see"
“The leaders first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound”
"lamented the lack of any systematic data on the scale of unfunded IOUs that care-free politicians have handed out like confetti."
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..."
O problema não é o consumo. O problema é o consumo assente em endividamento."
"There are designations, like "economist", "prostitute", or "consultant" for which additional characterization doesn't add information."
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change"
"Hope is not a strategy and a crisis is a terrible thing to waste"
The more you can see of the present, the more you can see of the future"
Yes, You can change the future, but only changing the present"
"Entrepreneurship is 'Having aspirations greater than your resources'"
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that"
"A estabilidade é uma ilusão"
"When we create the conditions of possibility, the universe becomes our co-conspirator"
Thinking about doing is not doing. Talking about doing is not doing. Doing is doing."
"'God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another'.
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"Each of us has a mission, each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
"As our Lord tells us in the Gospel we have just heard, our light must shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing our good works, they may give praise to our heavenly Father."
"The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination."
"confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea"
"Much consulting involves the application of models to a system, as opposed to getting involved in the system as a positive change agent""
"O Portugal que pára sem orçamento é precisamente aquele que vive dele e que há todo o interesse em parar."
"credibilidade da política financeira e dos seus executores está ao nível da credibilidade de uma barraca das farturas"
"The role of the manager is thought to be reduction of uncertainty rather than the capacity to live creatively in it"
"today an entrepreneur is closer to artists than managers"
"A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby"
"If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.)"
"Storytelling isn’t just how we construct our identities, stories are our identities"
"'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' "
"They can because they think they can"
"Se há coisa que não suporto é misturar catequese com negócios, é a incapacidade para calçar os sapatos do outro e só pensar na nossa posição de coitadinhos, pobres vítimas indefesas dos maus e que por isso precisamos do Estado todo poderoso para nos proteger e, nem percebem na volta, os juros que o Estado cobra por esse serviço mafioso de protecção que, ainda por cima não resolve nada."
"Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble."
"In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep"
"Value it's a feeling not a calculation"
"An economist is someone who has had a human being described to him, but has never actually seen one."
"Don't finish first--it's not about running a rat race. Start with a better ending in mind."
"If you sit in on a poker game and don’t see a sucker, get up. You’re the sucker.”
"The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided."
"Crediting government with the success of entrepreneurs is like crediting the guy who built Bill Gates’ garage with the success of Microsoft."
"I have found that assuming social scientists understand the difference between correlation and causality is not generally a good one."
"Promising never to raise taxes, without reaching a deal on spending, really means a high and rising commitment to future taxes."
"Some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"
"os bancos não financiam a economia, a poupança sim"
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
"Never be afraid to try, remember... Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
"terms such as 'experiment' and 'observation' cover complex processes containing many strands. 'Facts' come from negotiations between different parties and the final product - the published report - is influenced by physical events, dataprocessors, compromises, exhaustion, lack of money, national pride and so on."
"'science in the making' is 'the consequence of [a] settlement' of 'controversies'."
"If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or taxing you more. And it's no good thinking someone else will pay, that someone else is you."
"All failures of strategy are rooted in the assumption that outcomes are predictable."
"Doing things like your bigger competitors is how to get killed in the wars out there"
“Uma moeda boa e forte é como a saúde. Só lhe damos verdadeiramente valor quando não a temos.”
"Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid"
"O homem de bem exige tudo de si próprio; o homem medíocre espera tudo dos outros"
"Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me."
"As elites foram deixando de falar das exportações à medida que se foi percebendo que o país consegue exportar sem elas"
"Your toughest competition is the little voice inside your head telling you to stop"
"Pain is just weakness leaving your body"
"Built to last" is bad economics. Built to do something great" is the better idea. Think: "Creative destruction."
"the world is an uncertain place no matter how many Greek letter equations you affix to a problem."
"You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change s.th., build a new model making the existing model obsolete"
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
"Success is not a destination. It's the trail you leave behind you."
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around”
"Strategy as the "smallest set of - intended or actual - choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions."
"When something is commoditized, an adjacent market becomes valuable"
"nature evolves away from constraints, not toward goals"
"There aren't any textbooks on what to stop doing!"
"With great power comes great irresponsibility "
"Weird things happen when you take price out of the equation for consumers"
"‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and you’re dangerous.’"
"Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
"Increasing stuff that doesn't add value dilutes existing value."
"O federalismo não é a alternativa à troika, é a troika para sempre."
"Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts"
"Stressors are information"
“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word ‘equilibrium,’ or ‘normal distribution,’ do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
"The advantage of experiences over things for most of us is that we can make them seem unique, which = scarce, which = value"
"Pedras no caminho?
Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo"
"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
"Não posso com quem vive a achar que os outros lhe devem sempre alguma coisa."
"In a world of increasing automation, our ability to perform tasks is not nearly as important as our ability to dream. The questions we need to ask are not ones of action, but ones of meaning"
"Me arrancam tudo a força e depois me chamam de contribuinte."
"Letting people vote for expensive programs that “somebody else” will finance is a good recipe for getting people to vote irresponsibly"
"what's fairness gotta do with pricing based in value?"
"The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird."
“Price is emotional”
"There will always be a reason why you can't pursue it, until competitors create a reason why you must."
"The most important thing to study is opening theory"
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential"
“Customers don't care about your solution, they care about their problems.”
"Todos querem conhecer a verdade, mas o que desejam é que lhes contem uma mentira em que não sejam protagonistas."
"Execution efficiency strangles innovation in the crib, but not with malice, by default.”
"Our obsession with scalability is getting in the way of unleashing the potential of the 21st century."
"The system is optimized to mitigate risk, not create value"
"Champions are made when no one is looking"
"Don't bargain on value. Half as expensive is often twice as cheap."
"Customers care about outcomes, not effort, technology, or originality."
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"You don't have to pick between 1) playing the game and 2) not playing the game. You can *change* the game."
""The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "