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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. Fight all new players or acquire them.

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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. And among those firms offering more or less the same thing, we often see very different levels of success and profitability.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

At the highest level, there are three propositions essential to the success of strategy: the value proposition, the profit proposition, and the people proposition. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization.

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

Harvard Business Review

Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction. A number of successful online retailers are becoming increasingly focused on the physical world, for a number of reasons. Traditionally, stores were optimized for driving transactions.

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World Business Forum – Top 10 Speakers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Nando is an exceptional human being whose philosophy can be boiled down into two of the quotes given in his presentation: “ I fought so hard for life that I decided to have a life &# & “ life is success.&# My favorite thought by Renee was: “ Success rests on pushing the creativity frontier.

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