Introduction

The blue ocean strategy in the environment of marketing is an extraordinary way to embark on creating a monopolistic customer base. It describes how the blue ocean strategy looks to find ways to build a new market segment that has no current existing businesses and without competing in a crowded marketplace with existing companies. As new technological innovations emerge daily, blue ocean strategy is rapidly growing. The paper will intel the characteristics of the blue ocean strategy while providing ideas of how to employ them into the business environment.

Description and Importance of Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy is a non-fiction business book written in 2005 by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Kim and Mauborgne sought to find a more vigorous strategy approach than Harvard Professor Michael Porter’s “five forces”. They argued that Professor Porter’s strategy would have businesses remaining in the “red ocean” where there’s heavy competition and a very crowded marketplace. The importance of the Blue Ocean Strategy is to encourage existing business customers to move from the red ocean which is characterized as a bloody, shark infested waters competition marketing environment to the blue ocean waters than has no competitors and ample amount of space to evolve new beginnings. Kim and Mauborgne used the Cirque du Soleil as an example of how the Blue Ocean Strategy can be successful. “Despite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue 22-fold over the last ten years by reinventing the circus. Rather than competing within the confines of the existing industry or trying to steal customers from rivals, Cirque developed uncontested market space that made the competition irrelevant. Cirque created what the authors call a blue ocean, a previously unknown market space. In blue oceans, demand is