Asian Energy Advisors

If people in the organization don’t understand how a company is supposed to be different, how it creates value compared to its rivals, then how can they possibly make all of the myriad choices they have to make? Every salesman has to know the strategy — otherwise, he won’t know who to call on. Every engineer has to understand it, or she won’t know what to build.

- Keith Hammonds

Sigurd Rinde, who lives in the South of France (not to be confused with the Southern Philippines) was discussing how a certain large consulting firm was still pushing “best practices” and goes on to say:

Copying someone else’s practices is not a recipe for winning. Michael Porter argues that a true strategy must contain: “how are you going to be different from your competition?”

How are you going to be different if you copy somebody else?

As far as power supply strategy is concerned, I won’t be trying to push best practices on to you. But you might find me trying to push Michael Porter on to you.