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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Be the Big Fish in the pond.

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Capturing New Markets: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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Capturing New Markets: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman. Stuart is editor of Business Strategy Review. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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Marginal Market Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD have written a whole book about Blue Ocean Strategy as they call it, in which successful companies innovate their value propositions to attract customers who have never engaged with their type of product or service before.

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You Can Win Without Differentiation

Harvard Business Review

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.