Blue Ocean Strategy Paper February 2, 2015 MKT/421 Ellen Carter Within the world of business it can be considered a battlefield. Companies in the same industry are in constant battle with each other. They are competing every day for the same customers, trying to outwit the other with every move they make. This strategic way of business is referred to as the red ocean strategy. Companies focus on building advantages over their competition, taking whatever a competitor does and attempting to
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Mauborgne authors of BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY 1) What is a blue ocean strategy? Kim & Mauborgne: Blue Ocean Strategy is a way to make the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for both the company and its customers. 2) What are red and blue oceans, and why do you use the colors red and blue? Kim & Mauborgne: We use the terms red and blue oceans to describe the market universe. Red oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries
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wave?” For those who have not heard this quote before, it is associated with a strategic strategy known as Blue Ocean Strategy; Blue Ocean was coined by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. In this strategy, the authors use the term “blue ocean” to get people to envision creating their own “blue oceans” which is often thought of as untouched and deep. This is the exact opposite of the beliefs of other strategies like Porter, D’Aveni, and Moore who work within the current market to beat the competitors
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Blue Ocean Strategy Effectively marketing a product or service can be the difference between success and failure. Companies who offer products or services that no other company can compete with are the easiest way to be successful if consumers found the product or service valuable. Coming up with a way to create value by marketing a product differently is one blue ocean strategy. This paper will explain the blue ocean strategy; highlight an example of the strategy and an alternative red ocean move
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Blue Ocean Strategy Ashleigh Philbrick MKT 421 February 18th, 2015 Professor Edward Mendicino Blue Ocean Strategy The blue ocean strategy in marketing is a unique approach to building a customer base. Rather than try to compete in a crowded marketplace with existing companies, a blue ocean strategy looks to build an entirely new market segment that has no other existing firms. With the rapid growth of technology and globalization, the importance of a blue ocean strategy has grown in recent years
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT # 5 BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY October 24, 2014 Case Study Question 1 Critically analyze the case. Solution 1 In this case study, the author has discussed different methods and strategies which global firms are adapting to achieve success and to grow exponentially in their relevant industries. This article has focused on two strategies, Red Ocean and Blue Ocean particularly. These strategies are used to define the environment a firm is operating in and to
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authorities on innovation and business strategy. Mauborgne is also an expert in these areas and she holds the position of the highest placed woman on Thinkers 50, the global ranking of business gurus. Actually they both maintain the fifth position in this ranking together (full list here). This book is divided in to three different parts: * Part One: Blue Ocean Strategy * Part Two: Formulating Blue Ocean Strategy * Part Three: Executing Blue Ocean Strategy I'm going to introduce all the three
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Blue Ocean Strategy Trenton Gatling MKT/421 May 4, 2015 Jose Medina Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization or new businesses can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. (blueoceanstrategy) The Blue Ocean Strategy is a direction that a new business entering into the market can utilize to maximize profits and eliminate worries about competition. This concept is based on the fact that
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TLFeBOOK Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant H A R VA R D B U S I N E S S S C H O O L P R E S S BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( W. Chan Kim Renée Mauborgne Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval
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Blue Ocean Strategy MKT/421 September 1st, 2014 Blue Ocean Strategy The term Blue Ocean is slang for an uncontested market space in a known industry or innovation (Investopedia, 2014). The cell/smart phone industry is constantly looking for new Blue Ocean market space to gain a temporary edge on the competition. Look at how mobile phones have evolved from simply being able to make calls to text, email, cameras, video cameras, mp3 players, internet access, streaming videos, bar code scanners
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