Simca

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Risk DoctrineMonarch's Fortune on the Line Strategic PatternCaptive Market Before Mass Market Strategic PatternPrizes and Spectacles as R&D Accelerators Capital StrategyPartnership Limited by Shares as Power Weapon Signature MoveRegistration Numbers Not Names Identity & CultureClan Secrecy Forged in Clermont Soil Signature MovePencil Stubs and Metro Rides for the Boss Cornerstone MoveRescue the Customer, Own the Industry Signature MoveApprentice Files Scrap Metal Under a False Name Competitive AdvantageSupplier Fragmentation as Secrecy Architecture Operating PrincipleFacts on the Floor Not Reports in the Office Cornerstone MoveSelf-Finance Until the World Is Too Small, Then Debt-Fund Continental Conquest Competitive AdvantageCustomer as Battering Ram Against Intermediaries Signature MoveLocked Doors Even Against de Gaulle Cornerstone MoveMake the World Need More Tires Before Selling Them Signature MoveSabotage Your Own Tires for the Enemy Cornerstone MoveWartime Radial in a Basement, Peacetime Dominance for Decades Identity & CultureFree Market Conviction from Regulation Experience Strategic PatternDiscontinuity Hunting as Core Strategy Competitive AdvantageStructural Value Recognition Over Market Timing Cornerstone MovePrivatization Partnership Arbitrage Capital StrategyIntellectual Freedom Through Financial Independence Signature MoveWalk Away as Negotiation Weapon Signature MoveCash Preservation as Freedom Doctrine Cornerstone MoveZero-Money Leveraged Takeovers Signature MoveHands-Off Management Through Trusted Operators Relationship LeverageRelationship Leverage in Government Asset Sales Operating PrincipleManagement Avoidance as Operational Principle Signature MoveSingle A4 Sheet Analysis Risk DoctrineRisk Elimination Over Risk Taking Decision FrameworkPsychology Over Numbers in Deals Signature MovePartner Selection Over Capital

Primary Evidence

"By 1948, the bottlenecks are clearing, and automobile manufacturing resumes its momentum. Citroën that year produces thirty-four thousand one hundred sixty-five cars, surpassing Renault (twenty-nine thousand nine hundred twenty cars), Peugeot (nineteen thousand three hundred ten), Simca (nine thousand nine hundred seventy), and the distant outsiders such as Talbot, Salmson, Panhard, Delahaye, or Ford."

Source:Michelin: A Century of Secrets

"While the Gibbs clan summered in New Zealand from January to March 2005, *Senses* sailed to the Caribbean in preparation for a season of exploration in Central America. Gibbs joined the boat in Belize in April 2005. As it cruised south towards Panama, Gibbs flew with his daughter and new son-in-law to towns throughout Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In Panama, they visited their friend Johnny Pigozzi, the son of the founder of the French car maker Simca. He’d developed the Liquid Jungle Lab, an ecological research outpost there. Gibbs and Pigozzi wandered about discussing butterflies and the infinite variety of nature in a steaming jungle."

Source:Serious Fun

Appears In Volumes

Michelin: A Century of Secrets Serious Fun