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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD. History: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean is a strategy developed by W.

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How To Innovate And Grow Via Nondisruptive Creation

Eric Jacobson

Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. How to assess the size of the market potential and how to scope the opportunity so it becomes practically and emotionally feasible to act on. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne W. But it can also be generated without science or technology-drive innovation.

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

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Book Notes – Blue Ocean Strategy: How Leaders Drive Change

RapidStart Leadership

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, I thought it was going to be all about what the title suggests – developing successful business strategies, (possibly with some kind of nautical theme). In the second half of the book, Kim and Mauborgne provide lots of great tools and approaches to help us overcome organizational inertia effectively.

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Marginal Market Opportunities

Harvard Business Review

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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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. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate. Underestimate them at your peril.

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

Harvard Business Review

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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