sexta-feira, abril 30, 2010
Reencaminhar por favor
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"“Eu sigo o meu plano e sou fiel ao meu plano”, disse José Sócrates, sublinhando que “o pior seria não manter a confiança no nosso plano”."
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Unlearning occurs when a new idea, concept or thought comes into play that contradicts what you’ve learned in the past."
Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.
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Sometimes lack of strategy is temporary and even necessary. It may, for example, simply represent a stage in the transition from an outdated strategy to a new, more viable one. Or it may reflect the fact that an environment has turned so dynamic that it would be folly to settle on any consistency for a time."
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The ability to focus on one task is undoubtedly useful, but focus also limits awareness.
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The most worrisome version of the failure to seek information occurs when decision makers are motivated to favor a particular outcome."
So does every failure. The same is true for changes in the business environment, in the market and especially in people within the enterprise – all of these changes demand that the plan be revised. A written plan should anticipate the need for flexibility.
In addition the action plan needs to create a system for checking the results against expectations."
Diferentes propostas de valor, diferentes comerciais, diferentes abordagens
In consultative selling scenarios, the general 20th-century value proposition of ‘a little extra value for a modestly higher margin’ no longer works. The only way to win in a consultative scenario is to separate out and differentiate everything, including the sales force.
Transactional and consultative sales forces, processes and tools don’t mix. Consultative sales people are too talented and expensive; they are overkill in a transactional sale. But if salespeople are given the two models to sell, they’ll tend to default to transactional because it is the faster and in many respects easier option."
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"We have analysed what has changed in selling over 2008, and concluded that sales cycles are taking up to 40 per cent longer due to budget freezes and customers’ decision processes taking longer."
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"The natural knee-jerk reaction to this is to just fill the sales funnel with more opportunities – ‘surely something will drop’. No. Focus and stripping out the volume of opportunities to enable your teams to give more quality focus to less opportunity is the way to go. Better still that you nurture existing relationships, ideally where you are already trusted.
Before you sell anything, you must create value during the selling process itself."
À atenção dos chefes dos aborrecidos representantes da Clix, PT e Cabovisão
"I was reflecting the other day on the near infinite number of ways in which companies annoy their customers."
Para reflexão
"5 Terrifying Parallels Between What's Going On Now And The Great Depression"
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"O 13º mês pode estar em causa"
quinta-feira, abril 29, 2010
A regra de ouro da estratégia
- Por que é que não está já a ser aproveitada?
- Se é assim tão boa por que é que não há mercado? Por que tem de ser criado, fomentado pelo Estado?
- E se acabou o dinheiro fácil é possível fazer algo sem um grande investimento de capital? Qual o risco associado?
Só acordaram ontem!
A não esquecer!
quarta-feira, abril 28, 2010
O mapa de benefícios

benefits that will be the most useful to you when understanding why you are providing different and significant value to your customers. In other words, it’s the maximum value experience") e os benefícios potenciais (o UAUUUUUUUU).
É a economia, estúpido.
terça-feira, abril 27, 2010
Também serve para reflexão
Proposta de valor = concentração, foco, sintonização
Para definir uma proposta de valor há que primeiro identificar e caracterizar os clientes-alvo. Assim, formular uma proposta de valor implica concentrar, focar as atenções num grupo específico de clientes e equacionar as experiências que buscam quando vão ao mercado.
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“So a value proposition statement is a clear, compelling and credible expression of the experience that a customer will receive from a supplier’s measurably value-creating offering. It is not a description of what your organization does for a customer.
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Value proposition thinking is at the heart of any value-focused organization. It sharpens the way organizations work by focusing activity so as to serve customers profitably. Note the use of ‘profitably’: the value proposition approach recognizes that you must be profitable to stay in business. A value proposition approach does not mean that your organization responds to every customer or prospect demand. That would be a sure path to bankruptcy.
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value proposition development is an organizational approach to building in value to the customer experience; it is the management of the discipline of providing profitable customer value.
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The entire value proposition building process is about focus. Going into organizations and asking them what they think their value is, it is our experience that executives adopt a ‘more is better’ approach.
They’ll say things like ‘We deliver great service’, and ‘Our intellectual property is really robust’, and ‘We’ve got the best people’, and so on, and on and on and on. The point is that although these may be interesting features, they are not differentiating, and will not make the organization stand out from the crowd.
Put simply, lists of features of this kind provide no directional clarity as to why a particular organization is special. In fact, more usually they get in the way, cluttering the view, so that it becomes impossible for a would-be client to see where the real value is in a given circumstance.
So, much of the purpose of the market, value experience and offerings steps is to strip away features that are irrelevant, unnecessary, and confusing – because they actually detract from a company’s value delivery potential.”
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Acerca do valor e das listagens de atributos vale a pena ler este excelente postal “The Difference Between Features and Value”
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Trechos retirados de “Creating & Delivering Your Value Proposition” de Cindy Barnes, Helen Blake e David Pinder.
Isto também é material para reflexão
segunda-feira, abril 26, 2010
Para reflexão
Por que o desemprego não é prioritário

domingo, abril 25, 2010
Para reflexão
Há marca e gente de carne e osso ou só funcionários?
- falou da importância de ter uma marca, para distinguir produto de commodity; e
- sobretudo, não se concentrou em salvar o passado, falou das oportunidades que se podem abrir para novas aplicações.
sábado, abril 24, 2010
O que é a proposta de valor!
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"When, late in the 20th century, the globalization tipping point happened, enabling supply to approach and exceed demand, and when Japanese goods were enthusiastically being snapped up, Western companies at long last recognized the imperative to produce quality goods. But even then, it took a while for many companies to understand that quality has to be built in to products and services, rather than being ‘inspected in’.
In the mid- to late 20th century, companies often tried to identify for their products and services a unique selling proposition, or USP.
This was, as the term suggests, something that made a product or service ‘special’, something that could be thrown into a sales situation as a clincher to get the deal. Bizarrely, however, USPs often were not directly related to value and, sometimes, not even directly related to the product or service."
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"Next, ‘features and benefits’ emerged as an advance on USPs. In fact, the formula evolved to ‘features–advantages–benefits’, which gave the handy acronym FAB. In countless workshops in the 1970s and 1980s delegates learned that features were connected to advantages, and advantages to benefits, ....
You get the idea? Fab! There was often no great effort to prove the claims, and the idea at the time was to create as long a list as possible.
More, so the thinking went, was better.
Then, the truth dawned… a feature is not a benefit unless it is a solution to a need. This was perhaps the moment that the concept of the value proposition was born. Even then, it took time to get to today’s understanding of the term.
The first post-FAB differentiating technique compared a product or service with its competitor(s) by listing points of parity (POP) and points of difference (POD). This had the virtue of at least acknowledging competitive offerings. POP–POD analyses, however, were not necessarily discriminating in relation to a particular customer’s need or situation.
The time for the value proposition had arrived.
However, no sooner had value proposition entered the business lexicon than it started to be misapplied. It became used as an alternative for USPs, features, benefits, POPs and PODs."
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"And let’s make it clear from the outset that a value proposition is not what you do. It is the value experience that you deliver."

