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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. McDonald’s is in a fiercely competitive fast-food industry with aggressive discounts, new product variations, and high-profile commercials. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product.

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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. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. and global productivity will go up or down.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management. Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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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.

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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. McKinsey, of course, offers the most uncertain product of all: Strategy advice. Underestimate them at your peril.

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

Harvard Business Review

As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. To understand the shift, just walk into your nearest Apple store, where you will find a limited selection of products and no cash registers.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. Peter Sims.