terça-feira, dezembro 11, 2012

Como não reagir a uma disrupção

Outra interessante reflexão de Maxwell Wessel em "Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try"
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Um incumbente do retalho físico (Best Buy) a ser massacrado por vários agentes com um novo modelo de negócio (venda online) e, como não deve reagir.
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Ainda este fim de semana um familiar me contava o que se está a passar na Alemanha  com a falência sucessiva de várias cadeias (ex-poderosas) de lojas.
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No caso da Best Buy:
"So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. It's too bad they're doing so by fighting their biggest disruptor head-on: by offering to match Amazon's price on everything."
É sempre a mesma reacção... o incumbente, perante o sucesso do disruptor, tenta salvar os clientes "overserved" baixando os preço... como se tivesse estrutura de custos, como se tivesse modelo de negócio capaz de competir com os disruptores. Simples, rápido e... errado!!!
"To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game. Best Buy needs to take stock of its unique advantages and compete for the customers that disruptive entrants are currently poorly positioned to win."
Pragmaticamente há que reconhecer que não se pode defender um passado que já não volta e há que apostar na criação de um futuro diferente fazendo batota.
"To survive their disruption, Best Buy should be looking for opportunities to optimize their business model around the jobs that Amazon can't do for customers."
É o mesmo filme que vimos nos jornais, perante a força disruptora, em vez de procurarem como podiam fazer a diferença, cortaram nos custos e quase acabaram com o que os diferenciava, usando todos os mesmos títulos e os mesmos textos das mesmas fontes.
"The way to solve the problem is to create a new disruptive business unit that’s got to work out how to become profitable by itself.
I wonder out loud whether this is a big part of the reason why so many news organizations are having this difficulty, because the way they see it is, “Okay, we’re going to keep cutting various bits and pieces until we manage to get our organization to a cost structure where we can compete in this new world.”
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Although it’s a subtle difference, it actually becomes really important to think about it in the reverse way. It’s like, “Okay, guys. If we were going to start a new organization in this new world completely from scratch — who would we take with us?”
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The difference being: Don’t assume your starting point is the existing organization, and you try and cut, cut, cut, cut, cut until you make it down to a new organization. You think about it from a completely clean slate, and you say, “Okay, what do we need to add to create something that’s going to be able to compete with the Huffington Post?” That difference in perspective is critical in responding to disruptive threats."
Trecho final retirado de "Clay Christensen on the news industry: “We didn’t quite understand…how quickly things fall off the cliff”"



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