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A certa altura, na erva, algo se moveu. Parei, recuei e dei com um coelho a olhar para mim. Depois, escondeu-se... pensou ele:
- Mas acha que Portugal tem transportes públicos adequados?Eheheh, escangalhei-me logo a rir, o que é que um burocrata que estuda impostos pode saber sobre os transportes públicos de norte a sul do país?
"TOO BIG TO CARE"Esta é uma lição que várias PMEs já aprenderam.
"As exportações de calçado aumentaram 11% de janeiro a maio, com o setor a vender mais de 30 milhões de pares de calçado, no valor de 730 milhões de euros, divulgou hoje a associação setorial."E para os que acham que estar no euro diminui a competitividade dos sectores tradicionais portugueses:
"Na sequência desta aposta, as exportações de calçado português para fora da UE "mais do que duplicaram" nos últimos quatro anos, ascendendo atualmente o peso das exportações para países como China, Estados Unidos da América (EUA), Japão ou Rússia a 13% do total exportado, contra os apenas 8% de 2008.
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Segundo os dados da APICCAPS, as exportações do setor aumentaram, de 2010 a 2013, "praticamente em todos os importantes mercados", tendo crescido 31% na UE, para 1.513 milhões de euros, e mais de 160% para fora da Europa."
"Don't look for your competitor. Look for your target customer's alternatives."Quantas páginas na dissertação sobre os concorrentes? E quantas sobre os clientes?
"Segmenting, at its most basic, is the separation of a group of customers with different needs into subgroups of customers with similar needs and preferences. By doing this, a company can better tailor and target its products and services to meet each segment’s needs. This isn’t, as McKinsey’s John Forsyth says, simply for marketing or retail firms. “We see many, many companies saying, ‘I want to get more consumer-driven and customer-facing. But sometimes the organizations don’t know how to start. I’d say you really start with a basic understanding of your consumers or customers, right? And that’s segmentation.”Quem são os clientes-alvo?
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It sounds straightforward but often it isn’t."
"you have to ask yourself why you want to segment and what decisions you’ll make based on the information. “Many companies say, well, I think I just need a segmentation,” says Forsyth. “But before you even start the segmentation, you need to really understand why you’re doing it and what some of the actions are that you’re planning to take, based on what you think you might see. It helps you understand what’s actionable in terms of driving a company’s business.”Sem esta informação básica... não há estratégia.
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Once you’ve answered these questions, you have to decide whether you want to start segmenting by needs or behaviors. “If you’re doing something strategic and you’re trying to figure out if you have the right brands, the right value proposition, the right product line, then I would say you should start with needs or attitude segmentation,” explains Forsyth. This is basically trying to identify what needs your product or service is or could meet."
"“Companies make a mistake in adopting a mantra of ‘customer centricity' to assume all customers matter equally and you must bend over to meet their every need. Yes, all customer promises should be fulfilled; that's what a trusting brand does. But a lot of promises should never be made. Just like in a functional family, boundaries are important.”Nunca esquecer: "Don't be afraid to fire a customer"
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At what point should a customer be fired? Plantes suggests drawing the following lines in the sand:
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(1) “When it wants to take your firm in a direction that is neither strategic nor opportunistic for you.”
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(2) “When the customer deals with you in a way that is not consistent with your core values. Otherwise, your core values become words only.”"
"We agree that this is very possible. Government is so large, so out of control, so unaccountable, and so expensive it is indeed likely to collapse one day. Less in a dramatic heap of rubble and more of a slow rusting rot. But perhaps a dramatic heap."Trecho retirado daqui.
"Just because a practice, process or capability has been associated with success in one setting, does not mean that it will lead to success in another. All firms are unique. They differ, often substantively, along a wide range of dimensions, such as size, location, history, and culture. All these differences can profoundly affect how firms operate.
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In other words, best practices are imperfectly mobile. While they may work like a charm in one environment, they may fall flat in another.
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By adopting industry best practices, firms in essence give up the ability to differentiate themselves from competitors on the basis of that practice. This problem is particularly acute when best practices are incorporated into business process re-engineering plans promoted by consulting firms, or built into enterprise software packages, like SAP. Because these systems are based on standardized processes, and because customizations can be very expensive and disruptive, firms within industries that have high rates of SAP adoption end up looking a lot alike."
"“You’re not going to win the selection process with Amazon today,” he said. “You’re not going to make it up on price or convenience anymore. You truly have to be honest with yourself about how you’re going to play that game with Amazon.”"
"É objectivo geral deste estudo desenvolver e sugerir um modelo de monitorização do desempenho estratégico para uma PME, nomeadamente, para uma empresa de distribuição por grosso de produtos farmacêuticos."Um outsider pode usar esta linguagem, a empresa deve procurar abandonar esta linguagem. Recordar "não é o que fazem, é o resultado" e "Um resultado de uma experiência, não um produto". Mal li aquela apresentação, instintivamente pensei em "commodity". Mais à frente, confirmei esta ideia quando li:
"O resultado obtido pela aplicação da matriz BCG e McKinsey, revela que o negócio tradicional da empresa se encontra em fase de maturidade com tendência ao declínio. [Moi ici: E onde andam as relações amorosas com clientes, produtos e fornecedores? Lembrei-me logo deste caso ""Milho" é para multinacionais, não se iludam". Profecias destas auto-realizam-se pois condicionam os gestores a trabalhar como se produzissem realmente commodities. Recordar “… there are no “sunset” industries condemned to disappear in high wage economies, although there are certainly sunset and condemned strategies" ] Isto é, as hipóteses reais de crescimento neste mercado são reduzidas ou mesmo nulas, com possibilidade de crescimento apenas pela falência, aquisição ou fusão de empresas que concorrem directamente na mesma actividade. [Moi ici: Só competição pelo preço, nestas cabeças] A quota de mercado apenas poderá crescer por essa via. Trata-se de um fenómeno que se verifica quando quatro das sete empresas que concorrem no mercado ao mesmo nível decidiram actuar em conjunto. Este passa por ser também um objectivo a médio e longo prazo desta empresa em concreto. Para tal a Novavet determina-se a obter, por via das exportações, e porque as condições comerciais negociadas com estes países permitem níveis de liquidez superiores aos obtidos no mercado nacional (PMR reduzidos e margens de lucro elevadas), liquidez que lhe permita assumir uma posição de segurança na aquisição e/ou incorporação de empresas concorrentes."Atentemos na principal actividade da empresa:
"Os segmentos dos Ruminantes e dos Suínos destacam-se pela redução do seu valor no mercado, consequência directa da conjuntura económica actual e do abandono de inúmeras explorações pecuárias. Este facto vem realçar a oportunidade já identificada aquando da análise SWOT. Isto é, sugere-se que a Novavet saiba aproveitar os recursos, a presença no mercado e conhecimento do negócio para crescer no segmento dos Animais de Companhia." [Moi ici: Deixemos de lado a questão dos Ruminantes e Suínos, apesar de haver muito a dizer e, concentremos-nos nos Animais de Companhia. Quando se fala de pensamento estratégico não se pode ser tão genérico e básico e ficar por Animais de Companhia. E os animais de companhia são todos iguais? E os seus donos são todos iguais? E tratam os animais da mesma forma? E compram os alimentos nas mesmas prateleiras? Recordar esta lição monumental "Quem são os clientes mais rentáveis? (parte II)". Não se pode falar em estratégia sem clarificar quem são os clientes-alvo e o que procuram e valorizam]Olhando para a figura lá em cima, podemos começar a pensar em termos de ecossistema. Classicamente as empresas trabalham assim:
"Flip Strategy on Its Head: Don’t chase the market. Look inward and identify the few things your company does better than anyone else. [Moi ici: Mais uma vez, fazer escolhas. Mais uma vez, responder à pergunta: Que meracado podemos servir e fazer a diferença?] Match these unique capabilities to market opportunities and build your strategy from there. A strategy that stays true to who you are as a company will get more traction and deliver better results."Escolher para, depois, focar, focar e focar:
"Focus Ruthlessly: Focus everything in your company around these core capabilities, providing a clear and common purpose and ensuring your investments and resources go where they matter most."
"Take Strategy out of the Boardroom: Translate your strategy into the everyday. Break it down into pieces and make it part of what each employee does, [Moi ici: O que fazer, por quem, até quando. Ou seja, o que fazer a partir da próxima 2ª feira?] day in and day out."
"Many leaders try to optimize what they are already doing in their current business. This can create efficiency and drive some value. But it isn’t strategy. The optimization of current practices does not address the very real possibility that the firm could be exhausting its assets and resources by optimizing the wrong activities, while more-strategic competitors pass it by."
"Pick the biggest market you can successfully dominate, the biggest slice where you can get through the Dip and be seen as the best in that world."Qual é o mercado em que a empresa pode deixar marca? Qual é o mercado onde pode fazer a diferença?
"Faced with soaring beef prices, many restaurants and food retailers are shifting strategies to woo consumers and protect profit margins.
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"Restaurants have a philosophical choice to make. Are you going to maintain your current products and eat the margin, charge your customers more, or adjust your product to meet the consumer at their price point?""
"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." "