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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. Be the Big Fish in the pond.

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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. Back in 2004 INSEAD’s W. Deviating from industry norms.

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Are The Best Innovations For Society Those That Are Non-Disruptive?

The Horizons Tracker

Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne believe that not only is this form of innovation not as predominant as we perhaps think, but that other forms of innovation may actually be better for society. Non-disruptive The pair, who made their name with their bestselling book Blue Ocean Strategy, chart a similar path.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

This is why a sustainable blue ocean strategy requires a fully developed and consistent set of three propositions. If a strategy does not fully develop and align the three strategy propositions, short-lived success or failure typically results. Achieving Blue Ocean Strategic Alignment. Excerpted from.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a blue ocean strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in “red oceans” filled with rabid competition. Rather, they seek to optimize a failing model.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Strategy, it follows for Porter, is a matter of working out your company’s best position relative not just to pricing pressures from rivals but to all the forces in your competitive environment. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain.