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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Great examples of Blue Ocean companies are Apple and Netflix.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. Best practice only caught up with the great thinker’s ideas in the 1990s.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. That is just the way of the business world. The questions, of course, are when, and how.