First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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Marketing Review Books Globalization 70

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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Marketing Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Early Adopters 13

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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Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a blue ocean strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in “red oceans” filled with rabid competition. None of these ideas are necessarily bad, but they fail to address the shifting economics of retail.

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Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

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. I'd like to see a strategy professor do that. That's the path to riches described by W.

Strategy 12

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 12

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ). A tour de force by any measure, “What Is Strategy?” ” is certainly required reading for all strategists.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

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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