article thumbnail

Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. Description: Red Ocean Strategy — Compete in an industry currently in existence and overcome an intense level of competition. McDonald’s is in a fiercely competitive fast-food industry with aggressive discounts, new product variations, and high-profile commercials.

article thumbnail

First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023

Leading Blog

This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Beyond Disruption : Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée A.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How To Innovate And Grow Via Nondisruptive Creation

Eric Jacobson

Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Industry worth $1B+ with an estimated 175M+ fans around the world. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are professors of strategy at INSEAD and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France.

article thumbnail

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. Deviating from industry norms. “They are more likely to encourage management to implement these strategies, ” the researchers say.

article thumbnail

Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

article thumbnail

Marginal Market Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

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. It refocused management attention and resources on housewives.

article thumbnail

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. Yet, at the same time, we see many industries in which firms do more or less the same thing.