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, (..)

Marketing 70

Marketing Review Books Globalization 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A conversation with INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne on how to spot a nondisruptive market opportunity and evaluate its potential.

Mauborgne 19

Mauborgne Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation 19

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.

Marketing 13

Marketing Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Early Adopters 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

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.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 15

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. That's the path to riches described by W. Now the competitive sea is getting more crowded, especially for iPhone.

Strategy 12

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 12

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. In their 2005 book, W.

Retail 13

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 13

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” ). Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

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.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. 2 in the ranking (with writing partner Chan Kim) INSEAD’s Renée Mauborgne was the highest placed woman. In 2013, women thinkers took no fewer than four of the top 10 places – their best ever showing.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

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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