Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

As the ultimate outputs of an organization’s activities are value for the buyer and revenue for itself and its inputs are the costs to produce them and the people to deliver them, the three strategy propositions of buyer value, profit (revenue minus costs), and people capture the essence of what an organization’s activity system does.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Enjoy these cartoons from the July–August issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the TWO HBR Cartoon Caption Contests we’re running this month. “Admittedly, it’s a niche market.” “I’m loving this blue ocean strategy.” ” Crowden Satz. ” Bob Vojtko.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Niche Marketing Magazine Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy. In our interviews, we asked managers to give us a sense of where their approach stood in terms of five attributes that are generally associated with good strategic decision-making processes, namely: Alternatives. Does the approach fit with the demands of your market and firm?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Yet instead of going high-touch, Toys “R” Us has opted for high-tech, rolling out new features like Find It Fast , to let customers see which stores had which toys, and using the loyalty program for better targeted ads and better product life cycle management. Rather, they seek to optimize a failing model. In their 2005 book, W.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? Consider the recent history of Apple and Microsoft, two tech companies no longer run by their visionary founders, and how each has competed in red or blue oceans. The truth is too many companies are paying a similarly steep price.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

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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