Business

When, in December 2022, the Chinese carmaker BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric cars the news resounded round the world like thunder in a clear sky. The performance was coupled with price cuts of almost 20% that Tesla had to concede to stay in the Chinese market.Clearly, not a single company, even those acclaimed as tech stars of the Silicon Valley, seems to be able to stand in the way of Chinese ventures.

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Had the virus simply followed Michael Porter’s competitive advantage (stage 1) or Blue Ocean (stage 2) recommendations, it would have been stopped by vaccination. But, this virus is nimble. It is able to rapidly transform itself (stage 3) and make use of feed-back loops (stage 4) to learn and overcome obstacles.

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The world has changed considerably since the 1980’s but the dominant paradigm in strategy remains Michael Porter’s competitive advantage. In the early 2000’s, Kim & Mauborgne proposed a different perspective with their Blue Ocean strategy but both approaches suffer from the same shortcoming. They both assume a relatively stable environment,…

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In today’s dominant paradigm, good decisions are for adults the equivalent of right answers for children at school. If you have a well-functioning mind and a good understanding of the issues at hand, you will take the good decision, that will spare you many of the scourges that arise from…

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Les Beatles chantaient Money can’t buy me love. Cinquante ans plus tard, ils pourraient entonner Tech can’t buy me peace of mind. S’il y a bien une chose que les laudateurs du progrès technique ne peuvent contester, tant les statistiques sont probantes et convergentes, c’est la régression que constitue la…

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Le temps est révolu, où la fragmentation du monde offrait aux roitelets de chaque industrie une zone naturelle de prospérité. La disparition des entraves au commerce, puis la numérisation de l’économie, ont provoqué l’émergence de nouveaux géants qui exercent une domination mondiale. L’absence de limites matérielles à leur expansion combinée…

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Most companies understand that they have to become more agile if they want to survive and thrive in the long term. Yet, their level of agility often falls short of their aspirations or is never implemented according to desire. Traditional “crystal” structures, whether functional, divisional or matrix, are indeed a…

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Dans notre quête de performance, nous imaginons qu’il existerait des recettes qu’il suffirait d’appliquer pour réussir. Faisant écho à cette louable envie de progresser, une littérature managériale florissante décrit les pratiques qu’il conviendrait d’imiter pour doper notre efficacité. Selon la mode du moment, il s’agit d’être authentique, ou bienveillant, ou…

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At a time when value comes from combination, too much focus means narrow-mindedness and lost ground. Firms have to go beyond their efficiency comfort zone to discover and exploit hidden synergies between supposedly competing business models.   For decades, the key word in organizations has been Focus. Superior financial performance…

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In spite of the apparent diversity of their offering, many companies operate one major business model. There are six reasons why they should engender a degraded or improved version of themselves   Many corporations cook their ingredients always the same way. They operate one major business model, which prevents them…

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