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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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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .”

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades." But you have to think that, to really stay on top, Apple needs to find more blue oceans to conquer.