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Interestingly enough, France used to make the same naïve mistakes the Japanese did : follow too closely the bid "rules", not lobbying enough, not taking politic
by luch 10y ago
Interestingly enough, France used to make the same naïve mistakes the Japanese did : follow too closely the bid "rules", not lobbying enough, not taking political landscape into consideration, not attending to "social events", etc.
Having worked in the areospace industry, I've seen France lose some "in the bag" public markets by letting other countries lobby and spin bid's technical specifications to their advantage.
It seemed they learned the lesson, at least for this bid.
- danieltillett 10y agoI have to say I am feeling rather upbeat about France these days. I know France has a huge number of problems, but French businesses seem to struggle through them and do well.
- noir_lord 10y agoThe French play hard ball, they also still value stuff they make themselves and that combined with government policy of making as much domestically as they can when it comes to military gear has paid off.
- gaius 10y agoThe UK could learn alot from them. Sadly we never seem to.
- noir_lord 10y agoAgreed. We never seem to realise that some government intervention might be a good thing when it comes to strategic industries or related. Instead we get told the service industry will save us and that financial services is where we go. End result, GDP growth with everyone but the top percent in London get proportionally worse off.
- agumonkey 10y ago'struggle through and do well' is how I'd describe the country.
- venomsnake 10y agoLosing the Saudi Arabia deal is very intensive learning experience.
- coredog64 10y agoPlease! France knows how to play hardball in aerospace and has been doing so since at least the mid 90s. French assets were involved in industrial espionage against Boeing and feeding results back to Airbus. (That is not to say that the US didn't/doesn't do the same).