quinta-feira, junho 16, 2016

Curiosidade do dia

Centeno continua mergulhado no século XX e a praticar "cargo cult" em grande:
"Portugal é bom para fazer investimentos porque "os portugueses são os que mais horas trabalham na Europa", além de serem muito baratos quando comparados com os franceses, por exemplo, disse o ministro das Finanças a uma plateia de gestores, em Lisboa, citado pelo "DN".
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O ministro não tardou na resposta: "O salário mediano em Portugal é um terço do francês. Esta diferenciação salarial não existe em mais nenhuma área monetária; nos Estados Unidos a dispersão salarial máxima é entre Mississippi e Boston, Massachusetts, e é um rácio de dois terços.""
Qual a taxa de desemprego no estado do Mississippi e na cidade de Boston?

  • Mississippi - 6%
  • Boston - 3,8%
BTW, "Mississippi has the weakest economy out of all U.S. states"
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BTW2, a anedota do dia:
"O ministro respondeu que a economia não cresce mais por causa do sistema bancário e financeiro, que não está a funcionar corretamente."

Trechos retirados de "Centeno: portugueses trabalham muito e são baratos". Olha se fosse MLA a dizer isto, as Vestais rasgariam as vestes e cometeriam suicídio.

Cuidado com a ISO 9001

Recordar:


"Great strategies answer five critical questions (“the strategic five”) in ways that are unique to your company: (1) What business or businesses should your company be in? (2) How should you add value to your businesses? (3) Who should be the target customers for your businesses? (4) What should be your value propositions to those target customers? (5) What capabilities should differentiate your ability to add value to your businesses and deliver their value propositions?
You won’t find the answers to these questions in most strategy concepts. Consider total quality management (TQM),[Moi ici: Substituir TQM por ISO 9001] a prescription for reducing cost by minimizing error. TQM is mostly silent on what kind of businesses should be in your portfolio and why, or who your target customers should be and why they’re glad your company exists. It is also a dangerously narrow prescription for what you have to be better at doing than anyone else to achieve and sustain great success.
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Instead of asking “Should we adopt TQM?” leaders should ask “How can TQM improve our answers to the strategic five?”"
Quem trabalha comigo na implementação de sistemas de gestão da qualidade (SGQ) (ISO 9001) sabe o quão importante é para mim fazer do SGQ uma forma de alinhar a empresa na resposta aquelas 5 perguntas estratégicas. Daí esta figura:

Trecho retirado de "Why Popular Strategies Always Fade"

Um exemplo a seguir com atenção (parte II)

Parte I.

Depois do exemplo da parte I esta espécie de estado de negação, este testemunho de quem ainda não descobriu as alternativas:
"Metade dos utilizadores de internet acede às notícias pelo Facebook e outras redes sociais, indica um estudo do Instituto Reuters que alerta para consequências profundas no jornalismo tradicional e de qualidade.[Moi ici: Este "de qualidade" é de rir]
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Dele destaca-se, principalmente, que 51 por cento dos utilizadores ‘online’ preferem as redes sociais para aceder às notícias, em detrimento dos canais tradicionais.
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Plataformas como o Facebook deixaram “de ser apenas o local onde se descobrem as notícias e passaram a ser destinos para o próprio consumo de notícias”.
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À medida que aumenta o acesso às notícias através de plataformas de terceiros, “vai-se tornando cada vez mais difícil, para a maioria dos meios de comunicação social, destacarem-se no meio da multidão, [Moi ici: Não concordo, o que os média fizeram foi antes tentar combater a China nos custos. Assim, perderam qualidade e tornaram-se iguais uns aos outros] ligar-se mais diretamente aos utilizadores e fazer dinheiro."
O que faz falta é virar a página e seguir em frente. Abraçar a nova realidade em vez de a combater e denegrir. Então, poderão começar a descobrir novos modelos de negócio. Até parece que num mundo de tribos não há mercado para notícias a sério, com investigação e especialização. Não pode é ser um jornal de negócios que escreve para funcionários públicos, com todo o respeito para os mesmos, ou jornal de economia em que os jornalistas escrevem erros económicos de palmatória.

BTW,




Trechos retirados de "Metade dos utilizadores online informa-se pelas redes sociais"


O consumidor de Mongo (parte I)

Algumas sugestões sobre o consumidor de Mongo:
"If businesses today are going to compete, it is vital that they think about exactly who their customers are today, how they behave and how they expect companies to interact with them. Through my research into consumer behavior, the following four characteristics are already becoming apparent in today’s consumer, and this is only likely to increase in the near future.
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1. We want to be treated as individualsToday, the ideal segment size today is one. We are evolving toward a situation where everyone has his or her own services and products, tailored to their individual needs. Connected technology and intelligent use of data have already enabled extreme personalization when it comes to on-demand services, and the logical next step is for personalized products. One of my favorite examples of this is “nrml” in New York – a store that makes personalized earphones based on just five photographs of your ear. They are made on site and adapted by a 3D printer so that your earphones fit perfectly. This new trend of extreme personalization of products could certainly be a sign of things to come, especially as home 3D printing becomes more common."
Nada que seja novidade para este blogue que prevê esta evolução há muitos anos. O que é muito interessante, associado a esta evolução, é a tendência para empresas mais pequenas e especializadas, mais interacção, mais co-criação, mais tribalismo e muito mais diversidade.



Continua.
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Trechos retirados de "How the digital world is shaping the modern consumer", Strategic Direction, Vol. 32 Iss 5,Steven Van Belleghem , (2016).

Parte I - Os problemas de um modelo

"Department stores were built around the idea that consumers would come to the store for inspiration and discovery. But retailers can no longer rely on that draw. Consumers increasingly get inspiration online first, from social media and blogs, and not from the retailers themselves.
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When that happens, the decision-making process employed by shoppers gets turned completely on its head – consumers start to choose the specific products they want to buy before they choose where to buy them from. This leaves department stores forced to compete on price instead of value.
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Another place where department stores are getting hammered is on the fast fashion front. Retailers like Zara and H&M can put out new fashions every few weeks. Department stores were built around the concept of featuring brands, almost like a store-in-store.
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If your only value proposition to consumers is that you have great brands under one roof, you’re going to lose. ... News flash: you can get great brands anywhere. And when you look for them online, even if they’re at different stores, they’re only a tab away.
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So what should department stores stand for, then? They should stand for a lifestyle. They should stand for things that help consumers solve their lifestyle problems. But stores have been gutted. High-end luxury department stores are the exception. The rest of the vertical have no expertise in stores. Not beyond what I could get asking random people on the street. Why should I go to a store when I can get better advice from blogs? At least they have followers to help give them some cache and sense of expertise.
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And department stores are not organized to present solutions to lifestyle problems. Need an outfit for a wedding? Well, first you have to go to dresses, and then shoes, and then accessories. Need a new outfit for a job interview? Same deal, except it may be even worse. You might have to visit several brand vignettes to find this brand’s suits vs. that brand’s suits, and then start all over again if you need a blouse or shoes to go with.
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Now, part of the problem is that the brands themselves want their vignettes. They want their voice to the customer to stand out, even within the department store. But how do consumers shop online? They see all blouses together. They can filter by brand if they want, but the primary sort is the function first, brand later. And you just can’t shop that way in a department store."


Trechos retirados de "Here's What's Wrong With Department Stores"

quarta-feira, junho 15, 2016

Curiosidade do dia

"Numa união de Estados que é voluntária, onde os normativos que regulam o seu funcionamento são decididos conjuntamente, não existe aplicação de sanções. Não pode ser sanção o que corresponde a uma regra que foi livremente aceite como procedimento para corrigir desequilíbrios. Na União Europeia, não há castigos, há correcção dos desequilíbrios. Quem não aceitar as regras que aprovou terá de abandonar, libertando-se dos constrangimentos e renunciando aos benefícios."

Trechos retirados de "Constrangimentos e benefícios"

Um exemplo a seguir com atenção

Ao longo dos anos tenho usado o exemplo do jornalismo como um mau exemplo da reacção a uma disrupção clássica em que alguém vem servir os overserved. Recordar:
O truque é concentrar a atenção nos underserved. Melhorar a qualidade e diferenciação do jornal/publicação, aumentar preço e confiar no efeito assimétrico na curva do isolucro:

Assim, considero muito interessante este exemplo "Prevention Magazine Will Become Ad-Free":
"going ad-free would reduce Prevention’s operating expenses by more than 50 percent. [Moi ici: Começa bem!]
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“If we were going to continue with advertising, I could never see a future where we would be profitable.”
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By going ad-free, Ms. Rodale said, Prevention will reduce its operating expenses by more than 50 percent. The savings will come in part because the magazine will no longer have to maintain a certain circulation level — a number very important to advertisers — which can result in magazines doing things like printing many copies of issues and offering steep discounts or giving them away free. Prevention has also cut its print sales staff.
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Of course, Prevention, which has a circulation of about 1.5 million, will also be giving up print ad revenue of roughly $12 million a year. But as part of the new business model, it is doubling its subscription price, from $24 to $48. It has already increased the cost of a single copy by a dollar, to $4.99.
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the new editor in chief, emphasized the editorial freedom that the magazine would have without ads. She said she planned to “bring in controversial stories” on topics such as medical errors, toxic cosmetics and the anti-aging industry."
Um exemplo a seguir com atenção. Será que fará reflectir alguém no meio jornalístico português?

Autópsias para aprender

Cada vez mais trabalhamos em projectos.
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Por isso, faz cada vez mais sentido pensar em "post-mortem":
"Get more out of post-mortems. Many people dislike project post-mortems. They’d rather talk about what went right than what went wrong. And after investing extensive time on the project, they’d like to move on. Structure your post-mortems to stimulate discussion. Example:
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Pixar asks post-mortem participants to list the top five things they’d do again and the top five they wouldn’t do. The positive-negative balance makes it a safer environment to explore every aspect of the project. Participants also bring in lots of performance data—including metrics such as how often something had to be reworked. Data further stimulate discussion and challenge assumptions based on subjective impressions.
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Because we’re a creative organization, people tend to assume that much of what we do can’t be measured or analyzed. That’s wrong. Most of our processes involve activities and deliverables that can be quantified. We keep track of the rates at which things happen, how often something has to be reworked, whether a piece of work was completely finished or not when it was sent to another department, and so on. Data can show things in a neutral way, which can stimulate discussion and challenge assumptions arising from personal impressions."
Trechos retirados de "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity"

Puf! Não há magia!

Na segunda-feira, aproveitei o feriado do 13 de Junho em Estarreja e fui passar o dia no Porto passeando com a minha mulher.
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A meio da manhã resolvemos entrar numa das imensas leitarias que abriram na baixa da cidade para tomar um chá e trincar algo.
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Uma desilusão.
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Quando se entra numa leitaria, entra-se pela expectativa da experiência. E quando falamos de experiência:
"with experiences, customers pay for the time they spend with a company, rather than for the activites the company delivers"
Se os clientes pagam pelo tempo, o preço não tem nada a ver com os custos.
"to availability of commodities, cost of goods, and quality of service, businesses now [Moi ici: Os gestoresmust add authenticity of experience as something to be managed.
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No longer content just with available, affordable, and excellent offerings, both consumers and business-to-business customers now purchase offerings based on how well those purchases conform to their own self-image. What they buy must reflect who they are and who they aspire to be in relation to how they perceive the world - with lightning-quick judgments of "real" or "fake" hanging in the balance.
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for to compete with such experiences, authenticity must become the primary source of differentiation for commodities as well as commoditized goods and services. ... To succeed, managers across most all industries must add to their expertise in supply-chain management, cost containment, and quality enhancement an understanding of what their customers consider real and fake—or at least which elements influence such consumer perceptions—about their company's offerings.
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understand that there is no such thing as an inauthentic experience—because experiences happen inside of us; they are our internal reaction to the events unfolding around us. How we react to what happens at a particular venue depends on who we are, what we've experienced before, how we feel at the time, who accompanies us, and so on. No two people ever experience anything alike. This intrinsic characteristic of experiences makes them inherently personal.
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Therefore, we remain free to judge our experiences with any economic offering as authentic or not. Businesses that offer them therefore can, whether intentionally or by happenstance, gain the perception of authenticity. The best word to describe this process is, once again, render. Businesses can render their inauthentic offerings as authentic. Doing so requires embracing this essential paradox: all human enterprise is ontologically fake—that is, in its very being it is inauthentic—and yet, output from that enterprise can be phenomenologically real—that is, it is perceived as authentic by the individuals who buy it."
E a experiência gerou um sentimento de fake-fake
Um espaço a tentar transmitir autenticidade, através da individualidade rústica, através da decoração. No entanto, o disco fica riscado quando:

  • a oferta de chás resume-se às saquetas de marcas comerciais que vêm para a mesa para escolha do cliente, e que este pode comprar num Pingo Doce;
  • a pastelaria é igual à das pastelarias mais recônditas deste país, sem um exemplar para amostra de algo feito na casa, de algo único, de algo específico;
  • para cúmulo o bule e as chávenas trazem o logotipo da Sical e são de um branco imaculado.
Puf! Não há magia!



Trechos retirados de "Authenticity" de James Gilmore e Joseph Pine.

Portanto, cheira-me a futurologia da treta (parte II)

Parte I.
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Textos deste tipo "Why AI will break capitalism." cheiram-me a um novo estilo de marxismo. Volto a sublinhar a crença ingénua destes artigos na inteligência como o factor fundamental nos negócios, na economia. TRETA!!! E treta da grande:
"Putting aside the ethics for a second, AI is essentially a new form of inter-species slavery. Instead of relying on our fellow species, we’re creating automated, non-human slaves. AI are just cattle versions of intelligence (once is created/bred for meat, the other for intelligence).
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Rather than capital now being a source of ownership and minor wealth generation, it can now be a source of exponential wealth creation — simply because AI continuously evolves and builds upon itself. It’s unique because it isn’t a static capital item.
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AI isn’t just a static piece of IP. It’s capable of building entirely new monopolies, businesses and ‘things’ all by itself.
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What’s more likely is that when we create AI that is break point for capitalism. Any variable to success can be bought and sold, and that means for those who have wealth, they can buy success instead of creating it. It’s a shift in the ‘fairness’ of capitalism, and the reward for someone putting in effort. When capital can beat humans on thinking, it’s hard to create a marketplace that doesn’t resemble feudalism (albeit minus the harsh living conditions)."
Recordo o insucesso dos 4 prémio Nobel referidos na parte I.
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Até parece que a evolução na Terra criou uma espécie de Vulcanos. Duh!
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Por que é que não somos todos Spocks? Porque não basta a lógica e o QI para ter sucesso neste mundo, também é preciso experimentar e ter sorte.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”
Gente que acredita que a Sandy vence o MacGyver. Gente que não percebe que com a concorrência imperfeita e sem marxianismo a estória é outra:
"MacGyver: Well, old Sandy sure has a mind of her own, doesn't she?
Jill: Yes, but she thinks like me. So I should be able to think it through and find her pattern, logically and rationally.
MacGyver: Without the emotion, right?
Jill: That's what gives her the edge. People and emotion can't get in her way.
MacGyver: Well, I say we trust our instincts—go with our gut. You can't program that. That's our edge."
Gente que acredita num mundo pré-determinado e que só está à espera de suficiente capacidade computacional para poder ser dominado. Ingenuidade perigosa.
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Prefiro acreditar na arte, na ingenuidade e na sorte.
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Prefiro acreditar em Mongo sem exércitos puros, racionais e uniformizados. Prefiro acreditar em tribos, em individualidade, em DIY, em p2p.

terça-feira, junho 14, 2016

Curiosidade do dia

A tal campanha em curso para culpabilizar o exterior pelos problemas que estão em germinação, como refiro aqui, hoje materializa-se em "Quebra na Autoeuropa pressiona produção automóvel em Portugal":
"Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano foram produzidos menos de 65 mil automóveis em Portugal, o que representa uma queda de quase 10% face ao período homólogo do ano passado."
Dados do INE só tenho os dos últimos 4 meses, e o que vejo?

  • Exportações de automóveis, tractores e outros veículos terrestres
  • 2015 - 1878 milhões de euros
  • 2016 - 1836 milhões de euros
Ou seja, em 2016 exportámos 98% do valor de 2015.

Get a life!

"Ryanair has come under attack for deciding to close its base near Oslo - a move that is expected to result in the loss of 1,000 jobs - after Norway introduced a new tax on air passengers.
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The Norwegian prime minister has accused the Irish budget airline of attempting to "dictate" policy, after the carrier announced it will scrap its base at Oslo Rygge airport - 66 kilometres from the Norwegian capital - in October and axe 16 routes, meaning its traffic in the country will fall by 50pc."
Uma empresa não concorda com a decisão de um governo legítimo. Legitimamente decide abandonar esse país!
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Não faz greve, não queima pneus, não exige subsídios, não faz chantagem, simplesmente fecha a operação e sai. Deixando a oportunidade para outra empresa servir a Noruega.
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E agora é que passa por mau da fita?
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Devo ser eu que, como anónimo da província, não consigo ver o filme.
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Trecho retirado de "Ryanair attacked over Oslo base closure"

Lc: 9,5

"empresas pequenas cheias de ganas de experimentar" (parte II)

O texto da parte I fez-me recuar a "O que é isto senão Mongo?" e ao texto "In Technology, Small Fish (Almost Always) Eat Big Fish":
"When you start looking at the world through this lens — that when small meets large, small almost always wins — you see it everywhere, across all tech sectors. It's so prevalent, in fact, that I consider it an industry law, in this case, “Leslie’s Law.” More examples to follow, but first, let’s take a closer look at how this plays out..When a sleek, small player enters the market, it does so by creating a low-friction, high-fit product that is sold at a low price to a large market. These new products are sold to a portion of the market that cannot access the larger products due to the cost of entry (in dollars and complexity) and the cost of ownership. The larger company may not even notice that the new company has entered the market because there are no mano-a-mano customer confrontations..This leaves the smaller company free to expand upward into the market. Its leading-edge customers whose needs are expanding, and its own interest in expanding its market upward, spurs it on to increase the features and functionality of its products. From the perspective of the large incumbent companies, this upward migration is imperceptible. They aren't worried, so they don't pay attention to it. But it’s happening..Inevitably, by the time the threat becomes compelling, it’s too late. The small company has taken root, developing the advantages of a lower-cost structure with a simpler, lower-friction product. A new ecosystem has already sprung up around its core offerings. It’s here to stay, and its inroads into the incumbent’s territory can’t be stopped."
Enquanto a empresa da parte I "ataca" o mercado entrando por cima, aytavés da inovação, apelando ao gosto pelo risco dos underserved visionários de Geoffrey Moore, o texto desta parte II refere-se aos que entram por baixo, servindo os overserved, o exemplo clássico de disrupção de Christensen.

"empresas pequenas cheias de ganas de experimentar"

Eis mais um texto sobre as vantagens competitivas das empresas mais pequenas face aos gigantes, "This Company Makes $50 Million a Year Selling
Sexy Orthotics":
"Profoot owes its existence to unconventional products, and its future depends on relentless innovation. "Dr. Scholl's is now owned by Bayer, which is something like an $80 billion company," explains Feldman. Profoot, by contrast, generates less than $50 million in annual revenue, although it turns a profit every year. "It just wouldn't be a very sensible strategy to go head-to-head with them," [Moi ici: A lição de David perante Golias] says Feldman. "I'm sure our entire company is their pencil budget."
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"But we also have tremendous advantages," says Feldman. "We can move much more quickly and come out with a product before their lawyers have figured out whether they can do this or that."
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Often, Dr. Scholl's may not even want to do this or that. Ideas the giant company deems too small to pursue--"interstitial," as Feldman describes them--look like great opportunities to Profoot. "There are plenty of $5 million or $6 million angles we can occupy,"
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In effect, Profoot has built a healthy business in a category dominated by a single giant by trying not to compete with it.
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Profoot innovated not just materials but also the look and packaging of products, based on the mail-order catalog industry's obsession with novelty.
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"I think right now we are clearly the best minds in this category," Feldman says. Alluding to Dr. Scholl's being acquired twice in seven years, he adds, "I don't know how much institutional knowledge is left at the leading brand right now."
Overall, Feldman is bullish. "We have no debt, we have never borrowed a dime, we have more product ideas than we know how to process," he says."
Enquanto lia isto pensava na lengalenga que ouvia na televisão quando era miúdo, e que ainda oiço alguns encalhados recitarem:
"As empresas grandes ficam cada vez mais grandes, só a regulação, só a intervenção do Estado impede os monopólios"
A verdade é que sempre existirão empresas pequenas cheias de ganas de inovar, de experimentar, de servir melhor os clientes e, como efeito secundário, derrubam os gigantes, naturalmente.

Emprego e empresas pequenas e jovens

Corroborado o critério que sigo quando escrevo sobre a evolução das exportações.
"No acumulado deste período, [Moi ici: 2007-2014] as empresas com até 49 funcionários foram responsáveis por 63% dos postos detrabalho criados. As grandes empresas – com mais de 250 empregados - criaram 20% do emprego e as companhias de média dimensão criaram 17% dos empregos."

Imagem inicial e trecho retirados de "Quer arranjar emprego? Olhe para as pequenas empresas"

Imagem final retirada daqui.

segunda-feira, junho 13, 2016

Curiosidade do dia


No pasa nada!

A estratégia transforma-nos

Numa apresentação que estou a preparar para dar algumas dicas sobre a metodologia a seguir, para desenvolver as iniciativas estratégicas associadas a um projecto balanced scorecard numa empresa, tento fazer a ênfase na transformação.
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A empresa que somos hoje gera os resultados de hoje de uma forma perfeitamente normal. Se queremos resultados futuros desejados diferentes, temos de transformar a empresa de hoje na empresa do futuro desejado.
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Depois, lembrei-me deste texto recente "Estratégia e iteração" e do exemplo da Southwest Airlines, da IKEA e da Zara.
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Implementar uma estratégia, transforma as empresas e o espaço onde actuam:
"When you try something new, you learn more about yourself--what you are capable of, what your limits are, what you enjoy, and what mistakes you would rather not repeat. Eat sushi, try skydiving, or strike up a conversation with someone who intimidates you. Whether the outcome is positive or negative, at least you've discovered something about yourself, and that changes how you respond to your environment and circumstances.[Moi ici: Como diz o Samuel Soares, expande-se a zona de conforto]
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When you move, you learn more about the world--what is good, what is tragic, and what needs to be revised, repaired, and restored.
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Take risks, dive in, dig deep, and choose to care about someone or something, and no matter what happens in the end, that growing passion changes you and changes the world."
Até acrescento uma imagem:
Com a legenda: Alea jacta est
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Agora, ao escrever isto, recordo o Eclesiastes e Karl Weick:
"Munidos de todo um arsenal descrito anteriormente, da Missão até às iniciativas estratégicas, colocamos os cintos de segurança e aí vamos nós a caminho do futuro desejado."
E a caminhada leva-nos a ver o mundo de forma diferente e a descobrir possibilidades escondidas ou inatingíveis até então.

Trabalhar para tornar a concorrência imperfeita

"Finally, if purchasers are not indifferent as to which firms to buy their goods, then the perfect competition assumption cannot be postulated to work. In fact, Sraffa also deploys this line of critique since, according to Sraffa, purchasers are actually not indifferent as between different producers – this is “the chief obstacle which hinders the free play of competition” (Sraffa, 1926: 544) – the causes for such absence of indifference are custom, proximity, personal acquaintance, possibility to get credit, reputation of the trade mark and design of the product. From a formal point of view, these different reasons of preferences are reflected in the clientele of each firm being willing, if necessary, to pay a higher price."
E a sua empresa, o que é que ela faz para tornar a concorrência imperfeita?

Trecho retirado de "Alternative Theories of Competition - Challenges to the orthodoxy" editado por Jamee K. Moudud, Cyrus Bina e Patrick L. Mason

Interacção e co-criação de valor

"Contemporary markets are increasingly interconnected, with actors no longer seen as part of linear value chains but existing in networks of service systems where interaction, collaboration and experience sharing take place. In such markets, traditional boundaries between the roles of “customer” and “provider” are losing clarity, highlighted by the emergence of concepts such as prosumers and post-consumers. Customers are not satisfied with the limited role of a buyer, receiver and user of a firm’s offering at the end of the value chain, but proactively engage in crafting the offering according to their personal needs and wants, and seek to also engage other stakeholders (such as other consumers, communities, firms or government organisations) in the service system to contribute their resources towards common aims."


Em sintonia com o ponto 4 e os exemplos de "Tantas lições para quem quer criar uma comunidade"



Trechos retirados de "Customer Engagement Behaviours and Value Co-creation" de Matthew Alexander & Elina Jaakkola

Acerca da banca do futuro (parte II)

Parte I.
"Os bancos têm uma estrutura de custos muito grande. Estão metidos num tsunami e não é por culpa deles. Têm muitas agências bancárias para as necessidades, por exemplo. As fintech são uma ameaça, mas se a Google, a Amazon, o Facebook e a Apple (GAFA) começarem a fazer crédito ao consumo é uma chatice. As gerações mais novas mais depressa pedem um empréstimo ao Google do que a um banco.
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O que podemos esperar da banca portuguesa nos próximos dez anos?A decisão mais rápida é colaborar com as fintech. Não há condições para comprar estas startups. Não fazer nada também não é solução, a tecnologia já demonstrou isso. A banca vai ter de perceber que as fintech têm um ritmo muito acelerado, em que o foco é o cliente."
Claro que o artigo cheira a publicidade encapotada mas é a vida, e não deixa de ser verdade. Os salami slicers esmagam os Bruce Jenner de cada sector.



Trecho retirado de "Jovens "mais depressa pedem um empréstimo ao Google do que a um banco”"