quinta-feira, maio 14, 2009
O principal mercado das nosas exportações está pôdre
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"The current recession is likely to be a long one. The current financial crisis, which, as I explained in my last post, has simply served to bring into focus the inherent unsustainability of the previous growth model: deep housing crisis, high indebtedness of the private sector, weak price competitiveness, very high unemployment… S0 as I say, ECB and EU Commission help will need to be on their way, and massive structural reforms now seem inevitable.Despite some recent positive development (decrease in interest rates and prices, fiscal stimulus measures, slight improvement in confidence, ECB purchase of cédulas hipotecarias…),
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Spain will not recover even as other economies begin to breathe again. The worst year undoubtedly could be 2011, (Moi ici: please "rewind" and read again 2-0-1-1 o pior ano, ainda não se fala em retoma) and the unemployment rate by that stage could reach anywhere between 25% and 30% of the labour force if you accept the March 17.5% number as good.
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Bottom line, a complete nightmare, with the only bright spot being imminent control of the political system being assumed in Brussels and Frankfurt, since along with the economy the political "automatic stabiliser" system also seems to be broken." (Moi ici: ver Daniel Bessa no caderno de Economia no Expresso da semana passada)
Let’s Assume We Have a Can Opener
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O mainstream político continua a comportar-se como fazendo de conta que tem um abre-latas na mão.
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Imperdível este postal do outro lado do globo "Let’s Assume We Have a Can Opener"
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Peres Metelo então, esse deve ter um mega canivete suiço com várias dezenas de abre-latas.
Acordar as moscas que estão a dormir (parte XVIII)
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"Grécia em greve contras as medidas de combate à crise adoptadas pelo governo"
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"A população protesta contra o congelamento de salários superiores aos 1700 euros, a redução dos benefícios de saúde e o atraso no pagamento de pensões."
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Qualquer dia até se fazem manifestações contra os terramotos, ou contra as secas, ou contra as cheias.
Campanhas negras e cabalas
Clientes e fidelização
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Pois, tudo passa pela resposta a outras questões:
- qual é a proposta de valor?
- quanto custa servir um cliente?
- o que é um cliente-alvo?
Como estas questões não costumam ser colocadas vale a pena ler este artigo na Business Week "When Customer Loyalty Is a Bad Thing"
"The fly in the ointment is that typically only 20% of a firm's customers are actually profitable. And many—often most—of a company's profitable customers are not loyal.
This presents managers with a loyalty problem, although not one that they expect. If typically most loyal customers in a firm aren't profitable, how exactly does a customer loyalty strategyever generate a positive return on investment? Instead asking whether you have enough loyal customers in your customer base, you need to ask yourself three more complex questions: 1) which loyal customers are good for the business, (quem são os clientes-alvo?) 2) how do we hang onto them, (qual a proposta de valor que lhes oferecemos?) and 3) how do we get more customers like them. /qual o nosso modelo de negócio?)"
A strategic blueprint for action (parte I)
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A strategic blueprint for action is an umbrella tool – defining at the highest levels the strategy that a firm chooses as well as the actions and activities required to move it toward realizing its vision and goals. (Moi ici: precisamos de planos estratégicos para a acção, iniciativas estratégicas. Helas, por vezes as empresas chamam a uma folha com um título... plano de acção!!!)
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The strategy is defined by three main considerations
Objectives. What we are trying to achieve?
Advantage. With what resources and capabilities do we achieve this objective?
Scope. In what domain will we compete?
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Objectives define the ends of the strategy. The advantage defines the means. The scope defines the domain from a customer perspective.
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OBJECTIVES
Objectives are primary goals that motivate the behaviors of the firm and that will be rewarded. These should be simple and measurable. They should be a bit of a stretch but should also be proximate and realistically achievable. Goals should not be confused with visions. Strategic objectives are merely milestones or targets that must be achieved in order to realize this central vision.
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Strategic objectives can be chosen from a wide range of targets, including profitability, size of the firm, market or customer share or rank, and shareholder return.
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ADVANTAGE
A second component of the strategic blueprint defines what the firm does differently, better, or uniquely compared with competitors. Defining the advantage and understanding the sources or drivers of the advantage lie at the core of strategy.
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SCOPE
Defining scope answers the question. What sandbox do we want to play in?
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An important dimension is the definition of the firm’s choice of customers; needs; need states, or behavior clusters the firm intends to serve; and the products and services it offers to them. Seen from the perspective of pursuing customer advantage, scope can define how the offering links into the activities and goals of customers in the context of their everyday lives.”
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Continua
quarta-feira, maio 13, 2009
Cuidado com o que se mede!
Functional shopping versus emotional shopping
Esta figura de Ko Floor, incluída no Private Label de Thomassen & Lincoln, procura sistematizar a missão, a essência, a cultura das lojas de sucesso do futuro.Glup!!!
Uma cultura diferente
terça-feira, maio 12, 2009
Gostava de saber qual a política alternativa!
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"Ex-ministro da Agricultura arrasa Jaime Silva"
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Gostava de saber qual a proposta do senhor para a agricultura. Gostava de saber se o senhor tem coragem para dizer a verdade aos agricultores. Gostava de saber se o senhor tem alternativa para a política dos apoios e subsídios.
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Eu, que não sou agricultor, aprecio algumas verdades que o ministro diz, embora ele também não tenha coragem de dizer toda a verdade. Basta-me ouvir o presidente da CAP falar para perceber que quem tem uma linguagem e ideias mais parecidas com a linguagem dos negócios e da estratégia é o ministro.
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A CAP, os produtores de leite e muitos outros sectores agricolas, perante a incapacidade de competirem pelo preço, face à dimensão média das explorações do centro da Europa, apelam ao proteccionismo (querendo os dinheirinhos da Europa, mas os produtos europeus longe), apelam aos subsídios e apoios vários. Olha se os texteis e o calçado tivessem a mesma sorte?!
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Continuavam atrasados e condenados a viver ligados à máquina dos subsídios.
Estratégias puras e híbridas
According to Ko Floor in his excellent new book, Branding a Store, the shopping of goods will split into four extremes. The key question for brands is, where do you want to be? There's little point being in the middle as that is a road to nowhere.
Choose your battlefield well - it will decide your destiny.
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The in-betweenys have had it
Price will polarize markets and medium-priced retail brands will increasingly disappear. Low price and high value will rule the waves. And premium brands with unique produts will continue to exploit their lucrative niches. No amount of Chinese copies is going to stop the Japanese from buying an original Louis Valliant bag.
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Grito de alerta
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Qualquer dia Eduardo Catroga está a escrever no Norteamos.
segunda-feira, maio 11, 2009
Acordar as moscas que estão a dormir (parte XVII)
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Hoje ouvi na rádio Lobo Xavier, agora na SIC-N oiço Helena Roseta, querem saber como se vai pagar o défice de 8%.
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É preciso acordar as moscas que estão a dormir.
Contas de merceeiro
Murphy's Law is working around us
Alimentação e saúde - uma aposta estratégica

“Consumers everywhere are asking themselves some very basic questions: about the real health of their food; about the origin of that food and whether it makes global sense. Would I be happier buying food that came from a local source or should I buy food that was sourced from the other side of the world? The chart shown in Figure 15.4 was published in 2005 and it showed even then that health was becoming a very big brand issue.
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When you think about it for five seconds, the concept of buying butter from a cow in a field round the corner makes somewhat more sense than buying butter from 14,000 miles away in New Zealand. In fact, why do we even take five seconds to think about it!
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Why don’t local food producers band together and deliver local food direct to households through web ordering? Tesco in the UK has shown how successful web ordering can be, with a significant part of its sales now attributed there. If you have enough scale, you can do it.”
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Offer far more for more
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Recordo do livro este trecho directo ao assunto, sem falinhas mansas ou paninhos quentes:
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"The only way you can truly make your brand consistently innovative is to offer far more for more. When you look at your own products innovations, do you really meet this objective?
Or are you just producing line extensions and calling them innovations?
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As the head of a major Scandinavian retailer recently said to us: ‘I’m sick of brands coming here and saying they’ve been in the business for a hundred years and know everything there is to know. Here’s our new line extension flavour variant. Give us more shelf space. I don’t want this. I want innovation. I want food iPods.’
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Yes, product development is difficult, but it is one of the most important ways for a brand to keep its position at retail level, and one of the only really consistent ways to avoid private label competition. Food brands in particular should be embracing the leading trends like health, food labelling and the environment and using them to distance themselves from the retailer brands. ... The future belongs to retailers and brands that proactively create wants – retailers and brands that are transforming boring consumption situations into highly motivating shopping experiences.”

