The value of an outsider's view of innovation
Professor Paulo Ferreira
Outsourcing began back in the 90s. Everyone in Brazil ran after it. Managers saw a great opportunity to reduce costs in return for increasing their competitiveness. Some organizations were successful and others met with total failure.
After a few years, the topic comes up again: is it better to centralize or fragment the company's activities? Fortunately, these doubts require for the 21st century. A way of thinking that honestly allows us to see that the organization has enormous difficulties in dealing with change, what with innovative changes. innovative changes.
As a rule, once again in Brazil it was cost-cutting that pushed most companies towards outsourcing. A universe that limited this strategy to "I pay you so much and you give me so much". We spent the 1990s boycotting speaking and listening, the multidimensionality of experiences and the contribution of the outside eye to innovation from the inside. Reserve to maintain our positions of power, fear of assuming that habit loses its passionate gaze or sheer laziness and relaxation. Be that as it may, we are only now taking our first steps - like children coming out of crawling and starting to see the world from a new perspective - towards sharing and dialoguing "eye to eye" with our contractors.
It's funny that for life we agree that the outside look adds up to an support. You see, in a soccer team, the coach is never the player, in chess, the one watching the game has a more accurate perception than the one who is in charge of making the next move, and in emotional relationships, how many times have we thrown ourselves at friends when we're at a crossroads, so that they can let off steam and give us advice. Really in all these examples, examples of life, we don't care about the cost of outsourcing, like: you're going to tell others about my weaknesses, you're going to feel he's going to feel superior, he's going to think he knows more than me. We really want to know if this Saint from outside the house can really work miracles - add value.
The business, company, organization, whatever you want to call it, is becoming more and more like life. And life that doesn't seek out other lives that new horizons, perspectives, innovation and creativity, closes itself off from the world and tends to become old and depressed. The same is true of organizations. Unfortunately, we've tried to understand beauty as a physical trait and how many plastic surgeries have been carried out in this regard. When beauty is the ability to produce and share light. This is what people expect from organizations, something that ignites in them the pleasure of a happy experience. This is what other lives can bring knowledge and development to our own. lives.
Models, methods, parameterizations, in short, the company has undergone a number of plastic surgeries that end up not bringing beauty. Outsourcing can and will be this new culture for many. Because they will do as mothers do when they decide to choose pediatricians for their children. for their children. In addition to the specialist, there has to be a friend. Forget about partners and think in terms of friendly companies (Strategic Alliances). Successful outsourcing, whether for middle or end products, only exists between friendly companies. Because it's only a friend that you call and before thinking about fees about fees, he'll think about your problem.
The people who control the numbers must already be thinking about the cost of all this. Friends really aren't things you find on the street corner and often the market will pay. That's why outsourcing, if it is to be successful, must always be your choice. Build a life without friends and try to think about your results. The company is no different from life. Because there is life in the company.
Outsourcing began back in the 90s. Everyone in Brazil ran after it. Managers saw a great opportunity to reduce costs in return for increasing their competitiveness. Some organizations were successful and others met with total failure.
After a few years, the topic comes up again: is it better to centralize or fragment the company's activities? Fortunately, these doubts require for the 21st century. A way of thinking that honestly allows us to see that the organization has enormous difficulties in dealing with change, what with innovative changes. innovative changes.
As a rule, once again in Brazil it was cost-cutting that pushed most companies towards outsourcing. A universe that limited this strategy to "I pay you so much and you give me so much". We spent the 1990s boycotting speaking and listening, the multidimensionality of experiences and the contribution of the outside eye to innovation from the inside. Reserve to maintain our positions of power, fear of assuming that habit loses its passionate gaze or sheer laziness and relaxation. Be that as it may, we are only now taking our first steps - like children coming out of crawling and starting to see the world from a new perspective - towards sharing and dialoguing "eye to eye" with our contractors.
It's funny that for life we agree that the outside look adds up to an support. You see, in a soccer team, the coach is never the player, in chess, the one watching the game has a more accurate perception than the one who is in charge of making the next move, and in emotional relationships, how many times have we thrown ourselves at friends when we're at a crossroads, so that they can let off steam and give us advice. Really in all these examples, examples of life, we don't care about the cost of outsourcing, like: you're going to tell others about my weaknesses, you're going to feel he's going to feel superior, he's going to think he knows more than me. We really want to know if this Saint from outside the house can really work miracles - add value.
The business, company, organization, whatever you want to call it, is becoming more and more like life. And life that doesn't seek out other lives that new horizons, perspectives, innovation and creativity, closes itself off from the world and tends to become old and depressed. The same is true of organizations. Unfortunately, we've tried to understand beauty as a physical trait and how many plastic surgeries have been carried out in this regard. When beauty is the ability to produce and share light. This is what people expect from organizations, something that ignites in them the pleasure of a happy experience. This is what other lives can bring knowledge and development to our own. lives.
Models, methods, parameterizations, in short, the company has undergone a number of plastic surgeries that end up not bringing beauty. Outsourcing can and will be this new culture for many. Because they will do as mothers do when they decide to choose pediatricians for their children. for their children. In addition to the specialist, there has to be a friend. Forget about partners and think in terms of friendly companies (Strategic Alliances). Successful outsourcing, whether for middle or end products, only exists between friendly companies. Because it's only a friend that you call and before thinking about fees about fees, he'll think about your problem.
The people who control the numbers must already be thinking about the cost of all this. Friends really aren't things you find on the street corner and often the market will pay. That's why outsourcing, if it is to be successful, must always be your choice. Build a life without friends and try to think about your results. The company is no different from life. Because there is life in the company.