João Caetano
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Jan 7, 2025
Business maps

Make a map of your life.

It will end up showing your home, work, school and leisure.

A lot is left out - and it is certain that this is the case.

Each person has their own particular world that is not the sum of everything that is out there.

This map will emphasize what most affects your life today and tomorrow.

Surely you have your eye on something, so it goes on the map of your life.

Imagine everyone making their maps of life.

In one thing your neighbor is just like you — he made a cost-benefit decision very similar to yours.

He possibly takes others in a similar way, Is there a similar map.

Together, you and your neighbors from the building, from neighboring buildings, and so on, form a market.

A few buildings form markets for laundries, bakeries, and grocery stores.

Many buildings will form markets for shopping centers.

This is the concept of Area of Influence.

Companies are no different.

They have their operational maps and can add to them “aspirational” maps, which show where they seek to go.

Globo has its Map of the Mine.

Pharmaceutical laboratories work with the same territorial design, the BRICS.

Well, for this reason, in this market it is much more difficult to use geography to differentiate yourself.

Still, there are many companies without maps.

There are many segments that still have no maps.

Maps are a space for differentiation and creation of permanent competitive advantages.