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O tempo é a arma secreta dos negócios. As vantagens no tempo de resposta proporcionam alavancagem para todas as outras diferenças competitivas que compõem a vantagem competitiva geral de uma empresa.

Many executives believe that Vantagem competitiva é melhor alcançado fornecendo o maior valor pelo menor custo. Este é o Paradigma tradicional para sucesso corporativo. Fornecendo o maior valor para o menor custo no Menos quantidade de tempo é o novo paradigma para o sucesso corporativo. Um número crescente de empresas está alcançando sucesso, estabelecendo vantagens competitivas de resposta. Esses concorrentes baseados no tempo pertencem a uma nova geração de empresas que gerenciam e competem de maneiras diferentes. Os clientes mais atraentes, forçando seus concorrentes para os menos atraentes;

New-paradigm companies:

A nova geração de concorrentes está obtendo resultados notáveis, concentrando suas organizações em flexibilidade e capacidade de resposta. As empresas da tabela abaixo usam suas vantagens de resposta para crescer pelo menos três vezes mais rápido que suas indústrias e obter lucros mais do que o dobro da média de seus concorrentes. concorrentes;

Becoming a Time-based Competitor

You have become a time-based competitor when you have accomplished three tasks:

Make Your Value-Delivery System Flexible and Responsive

Most of the time a product or service is in your value-delivery system is spent waiting. Delays stem from these causes:

The single greatest cause of inflexibility and slow responsiveness, though, is organizing for economies of scale and control rather than for fast throughput.

To improve its responsiveness a company needs to organize for economies of time and for visibility. To do so, many companies disassemble their functional organizations and reassemble them into permanent, multifunctional teams. The members of these teams focus on entire processes, products, projects, customers, and/or competitors. The teams include everyone who can slow or speed the process and are often in one location. Their performance measures are set to achieve goals rather than efficiency.

One consumer appliance manufacturer formed development teams and challenged them to reduce the company's development cycle from as much as three years to less than 12 months. The teams identified many opportunities. For example, they found that months could be cut from the cycle by transferring several performance tests from the company's central testing laboratories to the design team organization. As the result of such changes, the company is well on its way to achieving its goal.

Preço para o valor fornecido aos seus clientes

Os clientes de concorrentes baseados no tempo obtêm valor especial, embora às vezes eles não reconheçam o valor da resposta mais rápida imediatamente. A resposta flexível e mais rápida beneficia seus clientes de várias maneiras:

These and others benefits affect customers' economics, thus creating value. Time-based competitors retain some of this increased value in the form of increased prices and market share. For example, a manufacturer of a commodity product improved its responsiveness and is gaining share while earning a 20 percent price premium. Its distributors can pay higher prices and still make more money, because their inventory turns four times as fast as the industry average.

Improved responsiveness creates greater customer dependency and thus increases market share. A supplier of a custom industrial product could not increase its share of customer purchases using traditional means but did so after reducing its response time by 75 percent on every order, including semicustom fabrication. As customers became confident that they could rely on this company as a sole supplier, its share of their purchases increased from 30 to 45 percent.

Surprise Your Competitors

The greatest risk you run in becoming a time-based competitor is that one of your competitors might become one simultaneously. If you increase your responsiveness at equal rates, any advantage either of you achieves will be arbitraged away in the marketplace and only your customers will benefit.

True value and additional profits result only if you can establish a substantial response advantage over your competitors that will be difficult if not impossible for them to close. You can do this by:

A importância da visão

The journey to becoming a time-based competitor is demanding. It must begin with a vision of what could be. The vision needs to be sufficiently clear and attractive to motivate you and your organization to rethink the structure and activities of your whole value-delivery system, so as to maximize its performance.

Initiating and executing a program that improves the responsiveness of an organization rapidly is not easy. Such a program must compete with other programs for attention. Further, the job is difficult to delegate to your subordinates, because improving responsiveness requires breaking down rigidities and delays across, as well as within, functions. Thus, you must stay involved. Finally, sustaining the rate of improvement and the accompanying benefits necessitates a philosophical change. Top management must shift its focus from cost to time, and its objectives from control and functional optimization to providing resources to compress time throughout the organization.

You, as the keeper of the vision, must believe that time is your number-one competitor.

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George Stalk

Consultor sênior
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