SỨC MẠNH CỦA SỰ ĐƠN GIẢN
Như thiên tài vật lý Albert Einstein từng nói: “Nếu bạn không thể giải thích được vấn đề cho một đứa nhóc 6 tuổi, thì bản thân bạn cũng chưa thực sự hiểu rõ nó”. Sự thật là, dù có hay không ý thức, thì con người vẫn luôn ưa chuộng sự đơn giản hơn sự phức tạp, và thường có khuynh hướng lựa chọn cũng như làm việc tốt hơn với những gì gần gũi, dễ hiểu đối với mình. Điều này cũng phần nào lý giải cho việc tại sao các phong cách sống mộc mạc, giải thoát con người khỏi lệ thuộc vào nhiều thứ như Minimalism, Tiny House của Mỹ hay Danshari từ Nhật lại tạo nên “cơn sốt” cho hàng triệu người trên thế giới trong thời gian qua.
Trong hoạt động kinh doanh, sự thật này vẫn còn nguyên giá trị. Hãy thử nhìn vào logo qua các thời kì của Nike, Pepsi, hay Mercedes Benz, sẽ thấy chúng đều có một điểm chung: Càng ngày càng đơn giản.
Và, xu hướng đơn giản hóa mọi việc không chỉ tồn tại trong thiết kế đồ họa, mà còn có tác động đến cả sản phẩm công nghệ. Ví dụ, ngày nay, người ta có thể quá quen thuộc với những chiếc smartphone với màn hình lớn và duy chỉ một vài nút bấm; song, trước khi kẻ cách tân làng điện thoại là iPhone xuất hiện, những chiếc điện thoại đã trông như thế nào? Chẳng phải chúng đã có hình vuông, hình bầu dục, nắp gập, nắp trượt, vừa gập vừa trượt, lâu lâu lại được sắm thêm bút cảm ứng và bàn phím với cả tá nút bấm hay sao?
Vài năm trở lại đây, có một chủ đề khá nóng, được đưa ra bàn luận sôi nổi, là làm thế nào để các marketer có thể xây dựng được trải nghiệm khách hàng tốt hơn. Tuy nhiên, trải nghiệm như thế nào mới được gọi là tốt hơn? Liệu “tốt hơn” sẽ đồng nghĩa với việc tăng lượng tương tác cũng như thời gian giữa người tiêu dùng với thương hiệu? Hay “tốt hơn” đến từ việc đơn giản hóa trải nghiệm khách hàng, giảm bớt thời gian dành cho thương hiệu và thay vào đó để người tiêu dùng tận hưởng cuộc sống?
Thông qua bảng nghiên cứu đánh giá thường niên mang tên Global Brand Simplicity Index (Chỉ số Đơn giản của các Thương hiệu Toàn cầu), Siegel+Gale – một công ty đa quốc gia trong tư vấn chiến lược và trải nghiệm thương hiệu cho rằng, các marketer cần phải suy nghĩ lại về việc thế nào là một trải nghiệm khách hàng xuất sắc. Bởi vì, đa số khách hàng đều khao khát sự đơn giản, nhanh chóng, liền mạch khi tương tác với thương hiệu.
Được biết, nghiên cứu năm 2017 của Siegel+Gale đã tiến hành khảo sát trực tuyến hơn 14.000 người tại 9 quốc gia trên thế giới và từ đó đưa ra bảng xếp hạng cho 857 thương hiệu, dựa trên sự đơn giản mà người được khảo sát cảm nhận từ chúng. Và, đây là một số chi tiết đáng chú ý: Có tới 64% người tiêu dùng sẵn sàng chi trả nhiều hơn cho những trải nghiệm đơn giản hơn; 61% người tiêu dùng nhiều khả năng sẽ giới thiệu một thương hiệu hơn bởi vì nó đơn giản.
Trên thực tế, nhiều tỷ phú như Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg hay những doanh nhân nổi tiếng khác, cũng đều gặt hái thành công rực rỡ nhờ biết áp dụng triệt để sự đơn giản vào thực tế kinh doanh.
Tỷ phú Richard Branson từng chia sẻ lời khuyên: “Các giải pháp tốt nhất là thứ có thể giải thích một cách rành mạch và đơn giản những điều khó hiểu, để ai cũng có thể tiếp thu chúng một cách dễ dàng. Những doanh nhân với các ý tưởng kinh doanh phức tạp có lẽ thường quên mất chân lý này: Cuộc sống thực ra rất đơn giản, nhưng chúng ta cứ cố làm cho nó phức tạp hơn mà thôi”.
Nhà sáng lập Virgin Group thậm chí còn đưa ra tiêu chuẩn đánh giá sự khả thi của một ý tưởng kinh doanh qua việc nó có được để vừa trong một chiếc phong bì hay không.
Vị tỷ phú người Anh chia sẻ: “Ngày hôm nay, nếu như ai đó trình bày với tôi về một ý tưởng kinh doanh mà họ cho là tốt hơn so với những mô hình đã có sẵn, tôi sẽ hỏi liệu bảng tóm tắt ý tưởng của họ có thể được để vừa trong một cái bao thư hay không. Nếu ý tưởng đó quá phức tạp để có thể được giải thích một cách ngắn gọn, chắc hẳn người tiêu dùng sẽ khó mà hiểu được nó, và dĩ nhiên, xác suất họ không mua hàng là rất cao”.
Ngoài tỷ phú Richard Branson, CEO quá cố của Apple – Steve Jobs, cũng là một ví dụ điển hình cho sự thành công từ việc theo đuổi triết lý đơn giản trong kinh doanh. Cụ thể, trong quá trình thiết kế giao diện của máy nghe nhạc iPod, Jobs đã tìm mọi cách có thể để giảm thiểu số lượng chi tiết mà ông cho là thừa thãi.
Khi đó, Jobs đã dứt khoát yêu cầu cấp dưới phải làm sao để người dùng iPod có thể đến bất cứ thư mục chứa nhạc nào mà họ muốn trong vòng 3 lần bấm phím. Tony Fadell – trưởng nhóm nghiên cứu sản phẩm iPod lúc đó kể lại rằng, có nhiều lúc, cả đội thiết kế phải vắt óc suy nghĩ về các vấn đề có khả năng phát sinh với giao diện người dùng, nhưng chỉ với một câu hỏi của Jobs, rằng “Tại sao chúng ta lại cần giao diện này?”, cả đội đã nhận ra, họ không thực sự cần đến nó.
Fadell nhớ lại một lần khác, khi cả đội thiết kế trình bày một số khung giao diện dự kiến cho phần mềm ghi đĩa iDVD, CEO của Apple đã “nhảy dựng lên”, rồi vừa vẽ một hình chữ nhật thật to lên tấm bảng, ông vừa nói: “Phần mềm mới sẽ như thế này. Duy nhất 1 cửa sổ thôi. Người ta sẽ kéo video thả vào trong cửa sổ. Sau đó bấm nút ‘ghi đĩa’. Chấm hết! Đó là những gì mà chúng ta sẽ làm”.
Còn nhiều nữa những ví dụ và tấm gương thành công trong cả cuộc sống lẫn kinh doanh nhờ vào sự đơn giản, không cầu kỳ, phức tạp. Và, nếu muốn gặt hái thành công trong cả cuộc sống cũng như công việc, bạn cũng nên làm như vậy.
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You don't need to know everything! - Tony Fernandes
Tony Fernandes's top 10 tips for entrepreneurs
1) You don’t need to know everything
I came from the music business. I knew nothing about planes. To all the entrepreneurs out there, you don’t need to know everything about what you want to do. It’s all about the idea, it’s about passion, it’s about implementing it.
2) Just do it!
Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. You’ve got one life, so you can’t press the rewind button and say ‘I wished I had done that.’
So I recommend to all of you out there, just do it. Live your life to the utmost, be positive. If you fail, at least you have tried.
I have failed miserably at Formula One, but I have no regrets because I got to stand with the greats from Ferrari, McLaren, and others.
3) Passion is a key problem-solver
Dreams do come true. Don’t worry about failure. You have one life, make the most out of it. Nine times out of 10, if you have the passion, you will find a way to work through it.
4) Invest in marketing
If you have the greatest idea in the world, please, please, please put some money on marketing. This is because if you don’t put money on marketing, nobody is going to hear about your great idea.
There are so many great ideas that never took off because of a lack of marketing.
Marketing is not about the dollars, it is also about public relations (PR). In AirAsia, we had no money. So I ran around with a red cap on and said controversial things so that the press would always take a picture of me. That was our marketing in AirAsia’s early days.
We have been through so many issues, and marketing played a key role in overcoming them.
Remember SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)? At that time, nobody wanted to fly; we all thought we are going to die.
Everyone cut their advertising, but I told my guys not to cut because this was the best time to build our brand. In fact, we tripled our advertising and everyone looked at me and said, “Are you on drugs?” I said, no, it is the best time because no one else is advertising.
When the first Bali bomb attack happened, everyone cancelled their flights. I said to the guys, we cannot let the Bali route die. We must continue to fly.
So we came up with ‘Love Bali’ campaign, giving away 10,000 free seats, and it worked. All 10,000 seats were snapped up in like under one minute. And all those who got those seats told all their friends about it on social media. Your best advertisement is your customers.
5) Leverage social media
When Malaysians get a good deal, they will tell the whole world about it. So the 10,000 people who went and had a good time in Bali, told 10,000 people that they had a good time. That was the early gestation of AirAsia’s social media.
We realised the power of social media very early on, so when Facebook and Twitter came up, we latched onto them. We were early adopters. We now have 32 million people on our various social media platforms, and 7 per cent of our business comes directly from social media.
The Bali campaign taught us that our best advertisements are our customers.
6) Don’t be scared of complaints
Complaints are actually free market research. Someone took the effort to write to you to tell you where things went wrong and how they should be improved. These are things that companies pay a lot of money for consultants to tell them that same thing.
So we treat every email preciously.
7) Focus on one image when it comes to branding
During the early days, there was the word ‘AirAsia’ and a logo of a bird in our branding.
If you look at the top brands in the world, there’s only one image that comes to your mind. When I say “Shell,” you think of the Shell logo. When I say “Coca-Cola,” you think of the word ‘Coke’ in italics, and when I say “Nike,” you think of the swoosh.
So, back to our earlier AirAsia brand, we said drop the bird – we felt it was facing the wrong way anyway – and we used ‘AirAsia’ as our logo. Just one image. Why spend double the money to promote two images?
We also dropped the blue and the green colours. I tried very hard not to go with red, because everyone thinks that I want to be Richard Branson [the Virgin Group founder and Fernandes’ former boss] ... but it was the best colour, so we picked red.
So yes, the colour does make a big difference!
8) Go on the ground
What I used to do – although I don’t do this anymore – was that once a month, I would carry bags, I would be a cabin crew [member], and also at the check-in counter.
I did this for two reasons. The first is that you can’t be an effective CEO (chief executive officer) unless you go on the ground to experience the real situation.
Here’s a true story. The baggage handling team told me that they needed belt loaders. I told them, “No, we can’t buy that as it’s too expensive.”
So one day when I was tasked to carry bags, they put me on one of the Indonesia flights. People who fly with us generally bring their house with them, but people who fly to Indonesia bring their neighbour’s house as well!
So there was a lot of bags. I broke my back in the process, and I told my team that they were right and I was wrong, and let’s buy the belt loaders.
If I didn’t do that [go on the ground] and just sat comfortably in the office, I would have made a wrong decision, damaged a lot of bags, and probably started a union.
The second reason [for going on the ground] is that I wanted to look for talent. I wasn’t looking for the talents from Oxford or Cambridge, I was looking for the Grade 3 SPM [O Levels equivalent] kind of guys who needed a second chance.
9) Never underestimate the potential of your staff
I broke all the rules in terms of hiring people. To me, as long as you have a dream, you can do anything.
There was an ex-cabin crew member – she came up to me one day and told me that her dream was to become a pilot. I told her to go for it.
Then she called me up one day and asked if she could take part in the Miss Thailand [beauty pageant], and I told her okay, as long as I get to use her photographs in our marketing materials.
She won the [Miss Universe Thailand] pageant and recently became a captain – so we are the only airline in the world with a Miss Thailand flying with us.
The moral of the story is that we have such a flat structure that she was able to tell me what her dreams were, and we were able to make a raw diamond into a diamond.
Another one of my boys, a baggage handler in Kuching, told me he wanted to become a pilot. I told him to go for it. He passed all the exams ... he had the top marks in the flying academy. Today, he is a captain.
We have many of such stories at AirAsia.
Your biggest assets, besides your ideas, are your people – because at the end of the day, it is the people who will deliver your ideas.
10) Data is king
We have a huge amount of data that we don’t know what to do with it, but everyone else wants our data ... so we figured it must be something very valuable and there must be an opportunity there.
We are investing in a few ventures. We plan to launch our own version of TripAdvisor, a travel dongle, a new YouTube-type of channel and more – data will be playing an essential role in these ventures. Data will be king. —
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Tony Fernandes's top 10 tips for entrepreneurs
1) You don’t need to know everything
I came from the music business. I knew nothing about planes. To all the entrepreneurs out there, you don’t need to know everything about what you want to do. It’s all about the idea, it’s about passion, it’s about implementing it.
2) Just do it!
Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. You’ve got one life, so you can’t press the rewind button and say ‘I wished I had done that.’
So I recommend to all of you out there, just do it. Live your life to the utmost, be positive. If you fail, at least you have tried.
I have failed miserably at Formula One, but I have no regrets because I got to stand with the greats from Ferrari, McLaren, and others.
3) Passion is a key problem-solver
Dreams do come true. Don’t worry about failure. You have one life, make the most out of it. Nine times out of 10, if you have the passion, you will find a way to work through it.
4) Invest in marketing
If you have the greatest idea in the world, please, please, please put some money on marketing. This is because if you don’t put money on marketing, nobody is going to hear about your great idea.
There are so many great ideas that never took off because of a lack of marketing.
Marketing is not about the dollars, it is also about public relations (PR). In AirAsia, we had no money. So I ran around with a red cap on and said controversial things so that the press would always take a picture of me. That was our marketing in AirAsia’s early days.
We have been through so many issues, and marketing played a key role in overcoming them.
Remember SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)? At that time, nobody wanted to fly; we all thought we are going to die.
Everyone cut their advertising, but I told my guys not to cut because this was the best time to build our brand. In fact, we tripled our advertising and everyone looked at me and said, “Are you on drugs?” I said, no, it is the best time because no one else is advertising.
When the first Bali bomb attack happened, everyone cancelled their flights. I said to the guys, we cannot let the Bali route die. We must continue to fly.
So we came up with ‘Love Bali’ campaign, giving away 10,000 free seats, and it worked. All 10,000 seats were snapped up in like under one minute. And all those who got those seats told all their friends about it on social media. Your best advertisement is your customers.
5) Leverage social media
When Malaysians get a good deal, they will tell the whole world about it. So the 10,000 people who went and had a good time in Bali, told 10,000 people that they had a good time. That was the early gestation of AirAsia’s social media.
We realised the power of social media very early on, so when Facebook and Twitter came up, we latched onto them. We were early adopters. We now have 32 million people on our various social media platforms, and 7 per cent of our business comes directly from social media.
The Bali campaign taught us that our best advertisements are our customers.
6) Don’t be scared of complaints
Complaints are actually free market research. Someone took the effort to write to you to tell you where things went wrong and how they should be improved. These are things that companies pay a lot of money for consultants to tell them that same thing.
So we treat every email preciously.
7) Focus on one image when it comes to branding
During the early days, there was the word ‘AirAsia’ and a logo of a bird in our branding.
If you look at the top brands in the world, there’s only one image that comes to your mind. When I say “Shell,” you think of the Shell logo. When I say “Coca-Cola,” you think of the word ‘Coke’ in italics, and when I say “Nike,” you think of the swoosh.
So, back to our earlier AirAsia brand, we said drop the bird – we felt it was facing the wrong way anyway – and we used ‘AirAsia’ as our logo. Just one image. Why spend double the money to promote two images?
We also dropped the blue and the green colours. I tried very hard not to go with red, because everyone thinks that I want to be Richard Branson [the Virgin Group founder and Fernandes’ former boss] ... but it was the best colour, so we picked red.
So yes, the colour does make a big difference!
8) Go on the ground
What I used to do – although I don’t do this anymore – was that once a month, I would carry bags, I would be a cabin crew [member], and also at the check-in counter.
I did this for two reasons. The first is that you can’t be an effective CEO (chief executive officer) unless you go on the ground to experience the real situation.
Here’s a true story. The baggage handling team told me that they needed belt loaders. I told them, “No, we can’t buy that as it’s too expensive.”
So one day when I was tasked to carry bags, they put me on one of the Indonesia flights. People who fly with us generally bring their house with them, but people who fly to Indonesia bring their neighbour’s house as well!
So there was a lot of bags. I broke my back in the process, and I told my team that they were right and I was wrong, and let’s buy the belt loaders.
If I didn’t do that [go on the ground] and just sat comfortably in the office, I would have made a wrong decision, damaged a lot of bags, and probably started a union.
The second reason [for going on the ground] is that I wanted to look for talent. I wasn’t looking for the talents from Oxford or Cambridge, I was looking for the Grade 3 SPM [O Levels equivalent] kind of guys who needed a second chance.
9) Never underestimate the potential of your staff
I broke all the rules in terms of hiring people. To me, as long as you have a dream, you can do anything.
There was an ex-cabin crew member – she came up to me one day and told me that her dream was to become a pilot. I told her to go for it.
Then she called me up one day and asked if she could take part in the Miss Thailand [beauty pageant], and I told her okay, as long as I get to use her photographs in our marketing materials.
She won the [Miss Universe Thailand] pageant and recently became a captain – so we are the only airline in the world with a Miss Thailand flying with us.
The moral of the story is that we have such a flat structure that she was able to tell me what her dreams were, and we were able to make a raw diamond into a diamond.
Another one of my boys, a baggage handler in Kuching, told me he wanted to become a pilot. I told him to go for it. He passed all the exams ... he had the top marks in the flying academy. Today, he is a captain.
We have many of such stories at AirAsia.
Your biggest assets, besides your ideas, are your people – because at the end of the day, it is the people who will deliver your ideas.
10) Data is king
We have a huge amount of data that we don’t know what to do with it, but everyone else wants our data ... so we figured it must be something very valuable and there must be an opportunity there.
We are investing in a few ventures. We plan to launch our own version of TripAdvisor, a travel dongle, a new YouTube-type of channel and more – data will be playing an essential role in these ventures. Data will be king. —
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