quinta-feira, julho 29, 2010
Futurização
"I saw a two-year old kid (in diapers, in a stroller), using an iPod Touch today. Not just looking at it, but browsing menus and interacting. This is a revolution, guys."
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Trecho de Seth Godin retirado daqui.
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Trecho de Seth Godin retirado daqui.
quarta-feira, julho 28, 2010
Cainesianismo abatido pela demografia?
Depois de Edward Hugh e Claus Vistesen abordarem e disseminarem o tema, eis Bill Gross de volta ao tema:
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"Demographics – or in this case population growth – is so long term in its influence that economists and observers are inclined to explain the functioning of economic society without ever factoring in the essential part that it plays in growth. Production depends upon people, not only in the actual process, but because of the final demand that justifies its existence. The more and more consumers, the more and more need for things to be produced. I will go so far as to say that not only growth but capitalism itself may be in part dependent on a growing population."
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"The danger today, as opposed to prior deleveraging cycles, is that the deleveraging is being attempted into the headwinds of a structural demographic downwave as opposed to a decade of substantial population growth. Japan is the modern-day example of what deleveraging in the face of a slowing and now negatively growing population can do."
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Anda na minha cabeça uma teoria mal amanhada que me impele a fazer o paralelismo com a queda do Império Romano e o colapso demográfico que se lhe sucedeu.
Leituras de 2009
Com cerca de sete meses de atraso cá vai a avaliação das minhas leituras de 2009. A classificação que atribuo é pessoal e baseada sobretudo na importância do conteúdo para o meu trabalho e desenvolvimento.
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5 estrelas (a ordem pelo qual aparecem é aleatória)
- · Quem mexeu no meu queijo?
- · Ultrapassar o impasse
- · Brain rules
- · Multimedia learning
- · The art of profitability
- · Profit patterns
- · A certeza de vencer
- · Branding a store (acrescento que este livro ganha o meu prémio de a melhor leitura de 2009)
- · Business Model Generation
- · Work flow modeling (provavelmente o melhor livro sobre processos)
- · Private label (um must)
- · How to succeed at retail (outro must)
4 estrelas
- · Sources of power
- · The power of intuition
- · Manufacturing in the corporate strategy
- · The strategy and tactics of pricing
- · O ponto morto
- · Marketing em Pessoa
- · Leadership in the era of economic uncertainty
- · Up against the Wal-Marts
- · Balanced scorecard no estado
- · O medo do insucesso nacional
- · Critical chain
- · Pricing on purpose
- · Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development
- · Scenario Planning The link between future and strategy"
- · The price advantage
- · Give your speech, change the world (premonição)
- · A vaca púrpura
- · Markets of one
- · What the customer wants you to know
- · The art of inovation
- · Making Things Happen
- · Perceber a crise para encontrar o caminho
- · Blink
- · Beating the global consolidation endgame
- · Pricing with confidence
- · The Laws of simplicity
- · Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies
- · Strategy as Practice - An Activity-Based Approach
2 estrelas
- · Strategic supremacy
- · O BSC em Hospitais
Visual language for designers
Winning the profit game
Confessions of a public speaker
Trust me
terça-feira, julho 27, 2010
Para reflexão
"anyone else who still holds a glimmer of hope that at the end of the day the CNBC spin may be right (Moi ici: os Peres Metelo lá do sítio) , is advised to steer clear of Faber's most recent thoughts."
Isto é um teste!
Ontem, ao ver o primeiro quarto de hora do filme "Inception" (não gosto do título português "Origem"), as palavras de Saito san fizeram-me recordar de imediato este texto "Personalidade"
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Obrigado Eduardo.
Trocar, comerciar, experienciar
Actualmente ando a ler "The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves" de Matt Ridley.
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As primeiras 75 páginas lêem-se bem mas o autor plissa um bocado. A grande mensagem das primeiras 75 páginas aprendi-a, ou antes, tomei consciência dela, com Beinhocker: a economia é um desenvolvimento evolutivo criado pelos humanos, tal qual o sonar nos morcegos ou as pintas do leopardo.
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"Whatever the explanation for the modernisation of human technology after 200,000 years ago, it must be something that gathers pace by feeding upon itself, something that is auto-catalytic.
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I am going to argue that the answer lies not in climate, nor genetics, nor in archaeology, nor even entirely in 'culture', but in economics. Human beings had started to do something to and with each other that in effect began to build a collective intelligence. They had started, for the very first time, to exchange things between unrelated, unmarried individuals; to share, swap, barter and trade.
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Exchange is therefore a thing of explosive possibility, a thing that breeds, explodes, grows, auto-catalyses.
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Barter was the trick that changed the world.
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Without trade, innovation just does not happen. Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty.
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The extraordinary thing about exchange is that it breeds: the more of it you do, the more of it you can do. And it calls fourth innovation."
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Após ler estes trechos como encarar este artigo "Snapgoods: Like Zipcar for Gadgets"
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E agora imaginem a vida de um consultor/auditor/formador que contacta 30/50 empresas por ano, que lê livros e revistas, que acede à internet... desde o primeiro ano da minha vida como consultor/formador o que mais me arrepiou foi o perceber o quanto se cresce mentalmente no espaço de um ano com a quantidade de interacções e experiências, quando comparado com cada um dos 8 anos anteriores a trabalhar por contra de outrem em empresas.
"Natal é quando as Crianças pedem e os Pais pagam. Défices é quando os Pais pedem e as Crianças pagam."
"O problema surge quando as decisões não produzem o resultado previsto, quando não potenciam o crescimento, nem asseguram o desenvolvimento regional harmonioso. Nestas alturas, os modelos de incentivos do Estado, que não se baseiam no utilizador-pagador, nem no contribuinte-pagador, deveriam justificar um debate sério sobre o processo de decisão de incentivos relevantes com custos geracionalmente diferidos? É que a solução do futuro-eventual-pagador tende a ser insustentável, é dificilmente inadmissível e de legitimidade discutível. Álém do mais, é quase imoral querer beneficiar da herança dos filhos."
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Trecho daqui.
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Trecho daqui.
Sintomas de um PDAEC
"Enfermeiros acusam INEM de trocar ambulâncias"
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"O Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses acusa o INEM de substituir ambulâncias SIV (Suporte Imediato de Vida) por ambulâncias SBV (Suporte Básico de Vida), com risco para as populações, sobretudo no Alentejo. A Ordem confirma. O INEM desmente."
segunda-feira, julho 26, 2010
Sintomas de um PDAEC
"a posição destes enfermeiros se deve à "ausência de pagamento desde há cinco meses""
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"Enfermeiros do helicóptero de Santa Comba Dão indisponíveis para assegurar turnos"
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"Enfermeiros do helicóptero de Santa Comba Dão indisponíveis para assegurar turnos"
A "culpa" nunca é só de uma das partes.
A "culpa" nunca é só de uma das partes.
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"O empresário recusa que os baixos salários sejam justificação. "Há dez anos era ainda mais pequeno e havia menos absentismo". Chegou a fazer uma experiência, não trabalhar sexta-feira à tarde, para que as pessoas tivessem tempo livre. "Resultou durante algum tempo, mas depois voltou tudo à mesma", disse."
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E a empresa, não cresceu? E, por isso, a atmosfera e/ou a cultura não se alterou?
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O que tem feito para conquistar a mente das pessoas? Continua a saber o nome das pessoas? Contínua a saber que têm um filho, que está no 6º ano de escolaridade?
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As pessoas saem da escola de hoje (e da família de hoje) com um desprezo natural pela disciplina e pelo esforço, o que tem feito para canalizar a energia das pessoas sem o recurso ao chicote ou à cenoura?
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Não passam de postas de pescada que aqui lanço, mas julgo que de nada serve diabolizar uma parte ou outra.
Abandono e ruína
É verdade, são as estradas minhotas, Vizela foi a que mais me impressionou, recentemente foi no trajecto de comboio entre Aveiro e Coimbra que fiquei perturbado com tanto abandono e ruína.
A escola do futuro
"1. Most colleges are organized to give an average education to average students.
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Pick up any college brochure or catalog. Delete the brand names and the map. Can you tell which school it is? ... They are mass marketers.
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Stop for a second and consider the impact of that choice. By emphasizing mass and sameness and rankings, colleges have changed their mission."
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Pick up any college brochure or catalog. Delete the brand names and the map. Can you tell which school it is? ... They are mass marketers.
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Stop for a second and consider the impact of that choice. By emphasizing mass and sameness and rankings, colleges have changed their mission."
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Por todo o lado os sintomas, os sinais de instituições que precisam de ser mudadas, que já estão dessintonizadas do tempo que vamos viver.
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"Type 1. You can take a class where you learn technique, facts and procedures.
Type 2. You can take a class where you learn to see, learn to lead and learn to solve interesting problems.
The first type of teaching isn't particularly difficult to do, and it's something most of us are trained to absorb. The first type of schooling can even be accomplished with self-discipline and a Dummies book. The first type of class is important but not scarce.
The second kind, on the other hand, is where all real success comes from. It's really tricky to find and train people to do this sort of teaching, and anytime you can find some of it, you should grab it."
Type 2. You can take a class where you learn to see, learn to lead and learn to solve interesting problems.
The first type of teaching isn't particularly difficult to do, and it's something most of us are trained to absorb. The first type of schooling can even be accomplished with self-discipline and a Dummies book. The first type of class is important but not scarce.
The second kind, on the other hand, is where all real success comes from. It's really tricky to find and train people to do this sort of teaching, and anytime you can find some of it, you should grab it."
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(Moi ici: Basta olhar para um daqueles cadernos que o semanário Expresso traz sobre o ensino superior, por exemplo neste fim-de-semana que passou. Se alguém pegasse nos licenciados em Engenharia Química formados pela FEUP, desde 1987 até 2007, e lhes perguntassem que fracção do que aprenderam na universidade usam no dia-a-dia... teriam uma surpresa...)
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Recortes de textos de Seth Godin e aqui também.
Ludibriar os incumbentes...
Na noite de Sábado para Domingo, vi o filme "O Patriota com Mel Gibson.
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As cenas das batalhas, fizeram-me recordar este postal "Martelar modelos "hard" para explicar a realidade".
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Combater no terreno e segundo as regras que dão vantagem aos incumbentes é ser ingénuo, trouxa e carne para canhão.
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Quando Benjamin Martin entra em cena com as tácticas de guerrilha, aproveita a rapidez, a flexibilidade e novas regras.
Falta de concentração estratégica
Há dias, ao visitar uma loja da marca Quebramar, deparei com uns polos em malha piquet(?) usados pela equipa espanhola na America's Cup. Estavam repletos de bordados com os nomes das empresas patrocinadoras, entre eles estava o da Marsans.
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Ontem, num hipermercado Jumbo na cidade do Porto, constatei que a Marsans era a empresa que tinha uma parceria com o Jumbo para operar uns quiosques conjuntos.
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IMHO, cheira-me aqui a desorientação estratégica... será que o potencial consumidor tocado pelo patrocínio da America's Cup é o mesmo que compra viagens turísticas no hipermercado?
domingo, julho 25, 2010
Concentrar, focar, alinhar, sintonizar, ... sempre!!!
"We didn't discover the formula for business success. There isn't one. But we did discover something important. By looking at twenty-six companies in depth, we concluded that there are things you can do if you want your company to be successful for a long time.
Develop a simple strategy. Decide how you're going to be distinctive. Decide how you'll make money. Simplify the strategy until it fits neatly in a sentence or two.
Then, focus ruthlessly on your strategy and on the business basics. Stay with your strategy until it doesn't work anymore.
That's simple, but it's difficult. There is the temptation to grow at any cost. There are new CEOs who want to "put their stamp on the company." Pundits urge you to practice "creative destruction." And there's always the lure of the newest, shiniest, magic strategy.
Don't succumb. Stay with the simplicity that works."
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Textos retirados de Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog
Develop a simple strategy. Decide how you're going to be distinctive. Decide how you'll make money. Simplify the strategy until it fits neatly in a sentence or two.
Then, focus ruthlessly on your strategy and on the business basics. Stay with your strategy until it doesn't work anymore.
That's simple, but it's difficult. There is the temptation to grow at any cost. There are new CEOs who want to "put their stamp on the company." Pundits urge you to practice "creative destruction." And there's always the lure of the newest, shiniest, magic strategy.
Don't succumb. Stay with the simplicity that works."
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""In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell." (Welsh)
It's hard to explain a three-volume, number-filled, strategic plan to mid-level managers and people on the front lines. Simple strategies are easier to explain and easier to implement.
Try putting your strategy into a slogan or a sentence or a couple of sentences that everyone can understand and use as a guide to action."
It's hard to explain a three-volume, number-filled, strategic plan to mid-level managers and people on the front lines. Simple strategies are easier to explain and easier to implement.
Try putting your strategy into a slogan or a sentence or a couple of sentences that everyone can understand and use as a guide to action."
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Textos retirados de Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog
sábado, julho 24, 2010
Experimentar, testar, aprender e evoluir.
O trecho que ontem recortei do livro "Competing for the Future" ficou a ressoar na minha mente com uma preocupação... concentração não significa saber tudo à partida, não quer dizer que se tem tudo estabelecido desde o início.
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Então, no capítulo seguinte encontro algo que ajuda a esclarecer, que ajuda a evitar a mensagem que não queria que fosse apreendida:
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"being first carries a risk of failure disproportionate to the rewards of leadership only when the pioneering firm permits its financial commitment to race ahead of its understanding of the precise nature of the emerging opportunity. The objective is to learn as quickly and as inexpensively as possible about the precise nature of customer demand, the suitability of the new product or service concept, and the need for adjustments in market strategy."
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Boyd ensinou-me os fundamentos da blitzkrieg... schwerpunkt:
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"Schwerpunkt represents a unifying concept that provides a way to rapidly shape focus and direction of effort as well as harmonize support activities with combat operations, thereby permit a true decentralization of tactical command within centralized strategic guidance—without losing cohesion of overall effort.
or put another way
Schwerpunkt represents a unifying medium that provides a directed way to tie initiative of many subordinate actions with superior intent as a basis to diminish friction and compress time in order to generate a favorable mismatch in time/ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances."
or put another way
Schwerpunkt represents a unifying medium that provides a directed way to tie initiative of many subordinate actions with superior intent as a basis to diminish friction and compress time in order to generate a favorable mismatch in time/ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances."
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Entretanto, a minha leitura do número especial da revista Long Range Planning dedicado aos modelos de negócio levou-me a um artigo de Rita McGrath, "Business Models: A Discovery Driven Approach":
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"The concept of ‘the business model’ is appealing because it suggests a change to the way that strategies are conceived, created and executed against. In highly uncertain, complex and fast-moving environments, strategies are as much about insight, rapid experimentation and evolutionary learning as they are about the traditional skills of planning and rock-ribbed execution. Modeling, therefore, is a useful approach to figuring out a strategy, as it suggests experimentation, prototyping and a job that is never quite finished.
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business models often cannot be fully anticipated in advance. Rather, they must be learned over time, which emphasizes the centrality of experimentation in the discovery and development of new business models
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Conventionally, the Holy Grail in strategy has been the creation of a ‘sustainable’ competitive advantage. In more and more categories, however, we see firms competing to achieve what we might think of as a ‘temporary’ advantage, which they exploit until competition has caught up or markets have changed, at which point, the hunt is on for a new advantage. The business model construct encourages conversations which might help us discern possible early warnings of model weakness and prompt the search for new ones
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Finally, as business models themselves evolve and mature, adopting the notion suggests a developing understanding that strategy itself is quite frequently discovery driven rather than planning oriented.
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When an existing business model has been copied, made irrelevant by environmental events or is otherwise no longer germane to customers, new business models have the opportunity to flourish. It is difficult, however, to plan analytically for which new models will supplant old ones, since so many of the variables relevant to their success are unknown at the outset. This brings us to the next issue - the centrality of experimentation in discovering new models.
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Most business models are conceived within the boundaries of a particular set of constraints. As new technologies and other shifts relax constraints or impose different ones, the opportunities for new models (and the threats to existing ones) increase. Typically, new models emerge when a constraint is lifted, and old ones often come under pressure when one emerges."
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business models often cannot be fully anticipated in advance. Rather, they must be learned over time, which emphasizes the centrality of experimentation in the discovery and development of new business models
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Conventionally, the Holy Grail in strategy has been the creation of a ‘sustainable’ competitive advantage. In more and more categories, however, we see firms competing to achieve what we might think of as a ‘temporary’ advantage, which they exploit until competition has caught up or markets have changed, at which point, the hunt is on for a new advantage. The business model construct encourages conversations which might help us discern possible early warnings of model weakness and prompt the search for new ones
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Finally, as business models themselves evolve and mature, adopting the notion suggests a developing understanding that strategy itself is quite frequently discovery driven rather than planning oriented.
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When an existing business model has been copied, made irrelevant by environmental events or is otherwise no longer germane to customers, new business models have the opportunity to flourish. It is difficult, however, to plan analytically for which new models will supplant old ones, since so many of the variables relevant to their success are unknown at the outset. This brings us to the next issue - the centrality of experimentation in discovering new models.
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Most business models are conceived within the boundaries of a particular set of constraints. As new technologies and other shifts relax constraints or impose different ones, the opportunities for new models (and the threats to existing ones) increase. Typically, new models emerge when a constraint is lifted, and old ones often come under pressure when one emerges."
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Este último sublinhado faz-me recordar aquela citação, a vida na Natureza não pensa, tem tem vontade teleológica, a vida na Natureza evolui fugindo, ou contornando as restrições.
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Nós, humanos, pensamos, temos vontade teleológica... mas temos ferramentas incompletas e imperfeitas para perceber o mundo na sua totalidade. Nós estamos no mundo mas não vemos o mundo, vemos a nossa interpretação, o nosso modelo do mundo.
Uma analogia interessante
Já escrevi aqui sobre o quanto o marxianismo que está entranhado em mim se espanta com o preço de, por exemplo, capacetes de marcas premium para ciclismo, sabendo qual é o nível de preço a que saem da fábrica na China. O andrecruzzzz chama a atenção para uma analogia interessante:
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"reflicto muito em marcas premium com fábricas na china..tais fábricas em parceria com sócios chineses que rabsorvem o know-how todo. faz-me lembrar um pouco a história da CIA e da al-quaeda no afeganistão.."
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Se eles um dia começarem a financiar alguns craques do ciclismo e conseguirem, com isso, associar a sua, deles, marca a performance e a vitórias...
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Os apologistas da formação profissional por tudo e por nada, que nunca puseram um pé numa empresa, não imaginam o quão fácil é produzir hoje em dia. O truque não é produzir, o truque é seduzir os donos dos porta-moedas a comprarem.
sexta-feira, julho 23, 2010
Sintomas de um PDAEC
O Jornal de Notícias publicou esta madrugada a notícia "Dentistas recusam clientes que usam cheques do Estado". Nela, alguém, apanhado com as calças na mão comenta:
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"“a situação não está totalmente resolvida”, mas está a melhorar"
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Os dentistas contam:
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"“Agora dizem que pagam em Julho um volume significativo. Mas já tinham dito que seria em Junho e, antes disso, tinham prometido em Maio”."
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Há momentos o Público publicava "Dívidas dos cheques-dentista serão liquidadas em Agosto"
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A derrapagem continua... sintomas de um processo de apodrecimento em curso (PDAEC)
Concentrar, alinhar, sintonizar
Concentrar, alinhar, sintonizar, focar, recursos, pessoas, tempo, atenção, imaginação, motivação, sonho e vontade numa aposta, numa oportunidade assente numa qualquer descontinuidade, numa desconformidade, em algo inesperado.
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Quando não há concentração há deriva!
Quando não há concentração não há estratégia, há dispersão
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"The pursuit of a single strategic intent over a long period of time ensures that the efforts of individuals, functional departments, and entire businesses converge on the same goal. In many
companies with which we are acquainted there is no such convergence of long-term goals. We often ask managers to look back over the past six or seven annual strategic plans and test them for consistency in long-term direction. What these managers often find is that development trajectories, definitions of served market, investment programs, and even the definition of the firm's core competencies and core businesses get changed far more often than is justified by changing competitive circumstances. The goal of strategic intent is to ensure there is some "cumulativeness" to month-by-month and year-by-year decisions.
Almost as bad as having no clear aspirational goal is having multiple, competing goals. Where there are no shared, corporatewide priorities for growth and new business development, resource fragmentation and suboptimization is the likely outcome."
companies with which we are acquainted there is no such convergence of long-term goals. We often ask managers to look back over the past six or seven annual strategic plans and test them for consistency in long-term direction. What these managers often find is that development trajectories, definitions of served market, investment programs, and even the definition of the firm's core competencies and core businesses get changed far more often than is justified by changing competitive circumstances. The goal of strategic intent is to ensure there is some "cumulativeness" to month-by-month and year-by-year decisions.
Almost as bad as having no clear aspirational goal is having multiple, competing goals. Where there are no shared, corporatewide priorities for growth and new business development, resource fragmentation and suboptimization is the likely outcome."
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Demasiadas vezes exageramos na atenção que damos à concorrência. E essa atenção exagerada impede-nos de ser diferentes, impede-nos de sermos distintos. Estamos tão distraídos em copiar, em superar pontos negativos face ao concorrente que nos esquecemos de fazer a diferença.
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Trecho de Hamel e Prahalad, retirado de "Competing for the Future"
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