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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions. The Profit Proposition.

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Apple Versus the Strategy Professors

Harvard Business Review

Or actually, maybe strategy is really about finding blue oceans — markets that come into existence as a company defines them. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. That's the path to riches described by W. Now the competitive sea is getting more crowded, especially for iPhone.

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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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