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The Founder of Dogfish Head on Flouting a 500-Year-Old Beer Law

Harvard Business Review

We partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to do a sophisticated chemical analysis of drinking bowls excavated from the tomb of the king of Phrygia, in what today is central Turkey. Business experts look at what we did and say that Dogfish Head followed a blue ocean strategy.

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Identify Blue Oceans by Mapping Your Product Portfolio

Harvard Business Review

We developed an analytic tool—the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map—to address precisely that challenge and, as we discuss in the new Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition , its beauty is that it can be applied dynamically over time to shift the trajectory of a company’s profitable growth prospects.

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Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the pure creativity tools, we also found that the training in the use of strategic innovation frameworks — Blue Ocean Strategy, for example — dramatically improves the business relevance of team outputs. They are ready to play.