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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.

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Beyond Disruption: Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive

Leading Blog

With disruptive creation, “the new comes at the expense of the old and its associated companies and jobs, creating a win-lose or winner-takes-most economic outcome. In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.”

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

When I picked up Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, I thought it was going to be all about what the title suggests – developing successful business strategies, (possibly with some kind of nautical theme). It was about strategy. It’s a good book about strategy. Want to drive change?

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How To Innovate And Grow Via Nondisruptive Creation

Eric Jacobson

The book, Beyond Disruption , shows companies how to build a path beyond disruption, where economic growth and social good are not trade-offs that work against each other and divide us. Created ~300K+ jobs, 8,000+ companies and $5.3B+ of direct economic impact. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. In contrast to ‘creative disruption,’ (i.e.,

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Uniqueness Helps When It Comes To Getting Investment

The Horizons Tracker

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne published their hugely influential book Blue Ocean Strategy, in which they popularize the concept of seeking unknown market spaces that are untainted by competition. They analyzed data from around 900 listed companies in the US over a twelve-year period. Back in 2004 INSEAD’s W.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Management thinking is no longer the preserve of the West.

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So, If Your Company Does Not Have a Flawless Foundation, Try This – (Insight with Challenge from Peter Thiel, Zero to One)

First Friday Book Synopsis

As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation. Peter Thiel, Zero to One ————— A couple of years ago, I presented my synopsis of the book Blue Ocean Strategy to an energetic team at an in-demand marketing firm.