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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Tool #5 - Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy This week, let’s understand how companies position themselves in the marketplace to succeed - The Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Fight all new players or acquire them.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

One of my most popular posts mentioned that I did it in 20 minutes -- it was "Patterns and Practices for New Hires" back in 2007. My health hint for the day is to smile. This is not natural for me so need to work on it. I'm a fan of timeboxing and I like the 20 minute window for writing blog posts.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Renee Mauborgne - Co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy , Renee offered great insights on creating demand, most particularly on creating consumer demand where little or none previously existed. My favorite quote from Martin was: “ great brands are emotional bookmarks.&#

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ). A tour de force by any measure, “What Is Strategy?” ” is certainly required reading for all strategists.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Or actually, maybe strategy is really about finding blue oceansmarkets that come into existence as a company defines them. But you have to think that, to really stay on top, Apple needs to find more blue oceans to conquer. That's the path to riches described by W.