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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. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. Be the Big Fish in the pond.

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

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). In the second half of the book, Kim and Mauborgne provide lots of great tools and approaches to help us overcome organizational inertia effectively.

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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. Also making the list is Wang Shi, founder and chairman of Vanke, the world’s largest residential home developer. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a trap many companies fall into.

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

Harvard Business Review

A more interesting development — one more pertinent to the challenges Toys “R” Us is facing — is the emergence of “shoppable showrooms.” ” At places like Bonobos Guide Shops and J. None of these ideas are necessarily bad, but they fail to address the shifting economics of retail.

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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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