"Under Armour prosigue con su ascenso en el podio del negocio de la moda deportiva. La compañía estadounidense ha arrebatado a Adidas el segundo puesto del ránking de marcas de moda deportiva en Estados Unidos por volumen de negocio."Trecho retirado de "Under Armour le ‘roba’ a Adidas la plata del negocio de la moda deportiva en EEUU"
"O secretário de Estado das Infraestruturas, Sérgio Monteiro, afirmou hoje que as perturbações que afetaram a TAP em junho e julho estão sanadas, considerando que a companhia aprendeu com os erros deste verão, que não se podem repetir.Aprender com os erros, isso é sempre bom.
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"Pareceu-nos uma boa atitude: aprender com os erros que podem existir do ponto de vista do planeamento operacional e fazer tudo para que no próximo ano exista uma resposta diferente da que existiu este ano", considerou Sérgio Monteiro, no final de uma reunião com o presidente da companhia, Fernando Pinto."
"Large corporations with small boards (around nine to 10 directors) outperformed their peers on shareholder return by 8.5 percentage points, while firms with large boards (13 to 14) underperformed peers by 10.85 percentage points,"Trecho retirado de "Maybe Your First Layoffs Should Be Board Members"
"S-D logic moves the orientation of marketing from a ‘market to’ philosophy where customers are promoted to, targeted, and captured, to a ‘market with’ philosophy where the customer and supply chain partners are collaborators in the entire marketing process.Fica esta tabela final com informação relevante:
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S-D logic also recognizes that customers as well as suppliers are resource integrators, consistent with the concept of cocreation of value. S-D logic not only brings the customer into the process of co-creation of value, but organization's partners throughout the value network as well. Consequently, S-D logic recognizes that each entity should collaborate with other entities and integrate resources with them.
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If we want to completely carry out the program of S-D logic and translate it into B2B offering strategies, we must re-establish the balance to the customer's advantage: co-creation is carried out, in a many-to-many approach, between a supplier and his network in interaction with a customer and his network. From an S-D logic viewpoint, it's not only therefore about making an offering to the customer but also to some of the actors in his network thereby co-creating value with them and for them.
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The cocreation of value with the customer network actors has been particularly identified as being the missing link in current B2B offering strategy approaches in terms of solutions."
"The erosion of barriers to forming and pursuing a business venture will lead to increasing fragmentation in certain parts of the economy.
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As barriers fall, many small yet viable players will emerge, with increasing influence on the economy
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This proliferation of individual and small business ventures addressing highly differentiated industry and consumer needs will drive significant fragmentation in certain parts of the business landscape. Fragmentation (within a domain) is defined by the following characteristics:
• Each player within the domain has a small, addressable market and is focused on a specific niche
• Collectively, players address a diverse spectrum of customer and market needs
• Both players and niches are proliferating within the domain
• No single player has enough market share to influence the direction of the domain
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• A relatively modest level of investment is sufficient to enter and sustain position
• “Diseconomies of scale” are in play—it is more challenging for large players to stay in business
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Fragmentation is likely to be most pronounced in the design, development, and
production of new products and services for specific markets.
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As consumer demand for uniqueness or other specialized attributes causes product
fragmentation, another type of fragmentation will occur in the retail space, as retailers cater to specific consumer preferences with a targeted set of niche products.
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They will increasingly offer targeted experiences to niche customer segments
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the number of small investors could grow with the emergence of a different type of angel investor—one who, now that it is easier for individual investors to connect with individual makers, artists, or entrepreneurs, values his or her connection to a specific product or mission more than tenfold returns.
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Fragmentation will be a permanent feature of the business landscape
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Today’s consumers expect offerings that exactly fit their needs and lifestyle requirements. The good news is that digital technologies allow niche products to reach consumers. The bad news is that, given the fragmentation of the consumer base, it is harder to get an offering adopted by the mass market, earn market share, and generate large returns. Indeed, the whole idea of the “mass market” may become less relevant as niche market proliferate. Revenue opportunities may be limited to capturing a relevant niche segment instead of an entire market.
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Increased competition and disruption are shortening product life cycles, reducing the total return for each product.
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a decrease in consumer loyalty. Consumers are increasingly willing to switch between brands to find products that best address their needs.
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Niche players that scale will have difficulty retaining creative talent, given the
increasing ability of talent to pursue other ventures.
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As an organization scales, it often becomes focused on efficiency, tightly scripting processes and governance models and thus limiting workers’ autonomy and creativity.
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fragmentation will be a sustained and even desirable outcome in the new business landscape."
"Redução do IRS compensa inflaçãoA proposta dos autores é que, quando se começarem a fazer sentir os efeitos da inflação, que normalmente acontece poucos meses depois, "deve haver uma compensação através do IRS"..
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"Especialmente nos escalões mais baixos de modo a compensar essa perda de salário real", defende Ferreira do Amaral."
"“What I do worry about every year is the future of the factory,” [Moi ici: Diz o director de uma fábrica na Indonésia] he tells her. “I worry that someone somewhere else, somewhere cheaper, will start to make furniture, and that will be that for us.”Dá a necessidade de sair fora deste filme e optar por outra estratégia
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It never ends."
"have eliminated many of the benefits of working for a large organization and undermined the financial and emotional security of many workers. ...Workers no longer have the historical safety nets they once did, such as life-long employment and pension plans....No one - not even top talent - is safe.Without the benefits of stability and security once associated with employment by a large, established company, many individuals will find themselves pursuing alternative career paths, not always by choice."No entanto, esta pressão sobre as empresas e os indivíduos, e "Eroding barriers: Lowered barriers to entry, commercialization, and learning" (terceiro capítulo) cria oportunidades novas.
"The somewhat surprising effect has been to tap into workers’ latent desire for autonomy. In the past, workers sacrificed autonomy for the security and compensation associated with working for a large enterprise.
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Many are driven by a desire for autonomy, flexibility, or alignment with personal values. Talented, high-performing workers are taking their increased negotiating power to pursue independent ventures or to work at companies where work is more tailored to individual priorities, values, and interests.
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In parallel, individuals are also beginning to move away from seeking status and meaning through consumption ... many are seeking status and meaning through the ability to create or participate.
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The good news is that the same technological and political forces causing increased pressures and challenging traditional structures and practices have also created the tools and opportunities for participation, commercialization, and learning.
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Times have changed. Today the barriers between the inventor and the market are diminishing, and individuals can own the full lifecycle of their products. Individuals are also finding that as barriers erode they have the ability to participate in numerous communities, unlimited by geography, where they can build knowledge, develop skills, and find collaborators.
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The means of production are becoming more accessible to individuals and smaller companies.
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Tools and physical infrastructure are becoming increasingly accessible. Liberalization in certain areas of public policy is reducing some of the regulatory barriers that have hindered the creation of new businesses.
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it is becoming easier for individuals to independently experiment with and prototype ideas, leading to breakthroughs in physical product design and even medicine. As technology continues to become better and cheaper, more individuals will be able to create small but sustainable economic entities. Even for technologies that have not become affordable, the emerging “sharing economy” is helping to make them accessible.
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The confluence of cheap and accessible technology, shareable tools and infrastructure, and supportive public policy has made it more attractive for individuals to leave large organizations and create their own fragmented businesses.
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With the path to market entry more accessible, technology has again been instrumental to lowering barriers to commercialization, largely through online platforms that connect individuals and organizations to the resources they seek."
"an ecosystem reflects much more than a network, and it differs fundamentally from a market.
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the focus of innovative organizations is likely to shift in the near future from organization-centricity to one that is ecosystem-centric. An ecosystem can be thought of as a complex web of interdependent enterprises and relationships that creates and allocates business value.
Ecosystems comprise entities that operate out of orchestrated, mutual shared-interestA set of individuals or organizations who formally or informally operate together to produce something of greater value for the mutual benefit of the ecosystem as a whole...In a business context, an ecosystem is a complex web of interdependent enterprises and relationships aimed at creating and allocating business value. There is something mutual and multiplicative about business ecosystems — the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts....Ecosystems comprise entities that operate out of mutual self-interest. They are made of sets of individuals who formally or informally operate together to produce something of greater value for the mutual benefit of the organization and the ecosystem as a whole. Ecosystems exist because participants can deliver more value within the ecosystem acting together.Mutuality reflects an enhanced level of coordination with formally or informally shared ideals, standards, or goals....Orchestration [Moi ici: Curioso usarem este termo, o mesmo que escolhi há uma série de anos, para designar o trabalho de quem desenha, ou toma consciência do ecossistema e começa a multiplicar o seu efeito fazendo batota] refers to the coordination, arrangement and management of complex environments. In the context of an ecosystem, orchestration refers to the formal or informal coordination of interactions or collaborations among participants within the ecosystem. Orchestration may be informal, through cultural mores and imperatives, or it may be formal through explicit rules or the presence of an actual orchestrator — an explicit entity that facilitates orchestration processes....By their nature and sustained existence, ecosystems can produce more value as a whole than the sum of the individual participants acting independently....To create value, organizations need to identify opportunities, develop competencies and leverage synergies. In identifying opportunities, organizations must understand how value is created in the ecosystem. They will need to identify and exploit pockets of potential value creation. And they must maintain flexibility in the role they adopt within the ecosystem, as well as the type of interactions they have with other ecosystem participants....Orchestration reflects the extent of an organization’s influence over others within an ecosystem, the formality of ecosystem interactions and the degree of enforceability and compliance."
"Last Tuesday, Fujifilm announced the release of the X30, the latest in a line of high-end digital cameras, ... The Japanese company enjoyed a boost in its stock during the week, though the new camera might not have been the reason for the jump. The product release immediately followed another announcement, this one by the Japanese government, regarding an anti-influenza drug developed by Toyama Chemical, an obscure pharmaceutical company that Fujifilm had quietly acquired five years ago. Japan said that Fujifilm was offering up the drug, Favipiravir, as a potential stopgap in the fight against an outbreak of Ebola that has, according to the World Health Organization, killed nineteen hundred people in West Africa, and that Médecins Sans Frontières just called for a global military and civilian response to stop."A Fujifilm no sector farmacêutico, porquê?
"The reason a company known for developing film began developing pharmaceuticals is simple: that’s where the money is. Unlike its former rival Kodak, which filed for chapter-eleven bankruptcy in 2012, Fujifilm was nimble in reshaping its business to suit the age of the digital camera, allowing it to weather a decade, the aughts, in which its film business went from producing two-thirds of the company’s profits to virtually none of them."E a minha mente começa logo a derivar para os que se queixam da falta de procura como a razão de todos os males económicos do mundo.
"“Temos uma fábrica antiga, disfuncional, com máquinas velhas, num mercado megacompetitivo dominado por multinacionais, como a Caran d’Ache, a Staedtler, ou a Faber-Castell, cujo produto final é mais barato do que o preço que nós pagamos por madeira."
"Se à fábrica, que “devia ter sido arrasada”, e às máquinas antigas “de suposta baixa produtividade e que afinal são altamente versáteis”, se juntarem residências de artistas em zonas do complexo fabril e o “conhecimento que existe aqui há um século”, de trabalhadores com décadas de experiência — “como se faz um lápis ou uma mina? Quais as matérias-primas e os comportamentos dessas matérias?”, diz Vieira — “se cruzarmos esses conhecimentos com tudo aquilo que é conhecimento artístico e turismo industrial”, a Viarco percebeu que podia criar produtos que ainda não existiam, fazer diferente das multinacionais, e, assim, acrescentar valor."O trecho que se segue é tão familiar... quase diria que foi retirado deste blogue, a incapacidade dos crentes na folha de Excel, verdadeiros Muggles, Muggles mesmo, de vislumbrar a magia do valor dos intangíveis:
"“Isto é um delírio”, diz José Vieira. “Quando falamos com doutores que querem números e vivem números e vomitam números, isto [a Viarco] faz-lhes muita confusão: do ponto de vista de negócio faz sentido, do ponto de vista das regras do mercado não faz sentido nenhum. Isto ‘tem de’ ser altamente produtivo: mas se isto for altamente produtivo, deixa de ser altamente versátil. Se pensar apenas numa lógica da rentabilidade, há muitos projectos que vão morrer à nascença. A pergunta é sempre: quantos vão vender? Eles estão habituados a fazer contas: isto vai custar tanto a produzir. Nós fazemos as contas ao contrário: desenvolvemos uma ideia, produzimos um protótipo, pegamos no produto e chamamos os artistas para o experimentar. Acham que vale a pena? Quando pagavam por isto? Depois do IVA, do preço do retalhista, do distribuidor que vai querer 40 ou 50%, quanto fica para a empresa?[Moi ici: O trecho que se segue é simplesmente delicioso] E as margens passam de ser aquela coisa manhosa, pequenita, de corta-unhas, para coisas muito mais interessantes: porque é aí que entra o lápis como ferramenta, entra o design, entra a relação do artista com o produto e entram as questões emotivas. São coisas que não podemos contabilizar — quanto custa produzir isto com esta margem de lucro — porque são coisas que não podemos meter numa folha de Excel.”Trechos retirados de "O segredo de um negócio de família é ser cem por cento profissional"
"In 1999, when Chávez took office, PDVSA had 51,000 employees and produced 63 barrels of crude a day per employee. Fifteen years later, PDVSA had 140,000 employees, and produced 20 barrels of crude a day per employee, according to an Aug. 14 report by the France Press news agency."
"Don’t draw up your task list in the morning – do it the evening before, when you will have a more distant perspective.Trechos retirados de "Here today, gone tomorrow"
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Hyperbolic discounting poses some obvious and well-understood problems for those of us going on a diet or saving for a pension.
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One possibility is to schedule tasks ahead of time in the calendar. The big presentation, the Japanese revision, the washing-up, all of it gets a diary slot. There’s promise in this approach. It still requires willpower but putting long-term priorities firmly in the calendar helps deal with the hyperbolic discounting problem."
"Experience offerings arrange for particular items and activities to be
displayed and unfolded at given times and in a given order. The content needs to be staged and structured to have direction and to make the most of the time and the activities that take place. Events should not unfold at random, but rather in a structured manner as to optimize the experience. Experiential value – although it can occasionally be created by random, or by the subject’s purely internal efforts, should in a commercial context rather be a well thought out endeavor: A deliberate effort by an organization to optimize stimuli – objects, activities, facilities – to provide an experience for a consumer. Someone needs to have thought through and asked, “what is a good way to do this?” What makes this content and activity fun and interesting? It involves the “what content to present?” and “how to present it?” questions. The principles of dramaturgy may be used to structure stimuli, content and activities to optimize the coming about of a worthwhile experience.
A dramatic structure can be used to intensify and enrich an experience offering. It can give direction and order to events taking place, by constructing them into a meaningful sequence.
It can be used as a way of giving a good introduction – to build in suspense and dramatic turns into an activity as it plays out, to give characters and roles to play for employees and guests, to arrange for conflict, challenges to overcome and clear goals to reach. Done skillfully this can very well build a strong frame and backbone for the offering, developing a suitable rhythm and escalation to increase the offering’s overall value."
"I believe we are seeing a shift away from traditional scalable efficiency as the predominant rationale for business. [Moi ici: É bom encontrar boa companhia quando a viagem é longa e tem muita gente que nos tenta demover] Technological advances have, in many cases, reduced the need for scale, and they are driving rapid and accelerating change; only organizations that are constantly learning will be able to keep up. Yet, the scalable efficiency model as it has traditionally been pursued - granular demand forecasting, rigid processes, and standardization to ensure predictability and minimize variances - is not only increasingly difficult; it is fundamentally incompatible with learning. Learning requires experimentation, and organizations that learn how to experiment faster will have an advantage."
"Entre 2004 e 2012, Portugal perdeu 43% do emprego industrial no setor da joalharia. Em contrapartida, a produção de relojoaria aumentou o emprego em 176% e o volume de negócios em 233%."Fui à procura da fonte. Encontrei-a neste estudo "Joalharia, Ourivesaria e Relojoaria no Contexto Nacional e Internacional".
"as atividades ligadas à fabricação de relojoaria afirmam-se claramente como emergentes, registando um crescimento absolutamente extraordinário em anos recentes. Com efeito, entre 2004 e 2012, o volume de negócios na indústria de produção de relógios e suas partes observou um crescimento de 233%, ao passo que o VAB trilhou um aumento de 324% e o emprego de 176%Em 2008, 20% da produção de joalharia era exportada. Hoje, essa percentagem chega aos 60%.
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Esta interessante dinâmica na fabricação de relojoaria em Portugal decorre, em grande medida, de investimento direto estrangeiro feito em Portugal por multinacionais de origem suíça, francesa e alemã especializadas na produção de relógios ou suas partes, do aumento do nível de atividade de empresas existentes
a produzir peças em subcontratação e a trabalhar em processos de assemblagem de caixas de relógio e, ainda, de fenómenos recentes de empreendedorismo."
"Entre 2004 e 2012, Portugal perdeu 43% do emprego industrial no setor da joalharia. Em contrapartida, a produção derelojoariajoalharia aumentou o emprego em 176% e o volume de negócios em 233%."
