Blue Ocean Strategy Danny Speed MKT/421 23 June 2014 Stephen Grothe Blue Ocean Strategy There are many different strategies in the market today that assist a company with getting ahead of the competition. Blue and red ocean strategies are important in this regard. A company can utilize the objectives outlined in these strategies to exceed their own expectations, as well as those of their competitors. One way to differentiate between the two strategies is that using blue ocean strategy
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Blue Ocean Strategy Executive Summary The Harvard Business Review “Blue Ocean Strategy” by W. Chan Kim and Renee describes the “business universe” and its two “distinct kinds of space,” the red ocean and the blue ocean. The article explains how the market space if divided by these two oceans. The red ocean symbolizes the industries that are currently in present in the market. These industries serve as models for current competitors as well as future ones. On the other side, blue oceans are industries
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Introduction Blue Ocean strategy describes how organization should try and find a way to work in a marketplace that isn’t full of competition and not full of competitors. It is important to understand the importance of the blue ocean strategy. By being able to understand the importance of the blue ocean strategy, I can then identify a product or service that would be considered a blue ocean move. Since there is an opposite strategy of the blue ocean strategy called a red ocean move, it is important
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper In today’s global economy, many companies are competing each and every day for the same customers. On the other hand, the elite companies are sailing in uncontested waters by being innovative and creative in obtaining profit and growth. Research spanning over 100 years in thirty industries was conducted, and the result was astonishing. The conclusion of the research was that companies need to stop competing head-on in existing industry space because they should make competition
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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
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper 01/05/15 MKT/421 Blue Ocean Strategy – Introduction When a company is about to enter the market, they typically spend their time trying to create a strategy to overcome their competitors that already exist in the market. In the book Blue Ocean Strategy authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Maugorgne explain how to create your own blue ocean. A blue ocean is the complete opposite of the existing red oceans in the market that quickly drown a new company before they can gain
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A market can be thought of as an ocean. The ocean can be divided into two segments: the red ocean and the blue ocean. The red ocean is comprised of existing market segments and this space contains all things in existence today. The competition in this space is fierce. Conversely, the blue ocean represents all things not in existence today or the opportunity to reengineer an established industry. The framework for formulating a Blue Ocean Strategy is explained in the following paragraphs. The
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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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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Jamie Carbary MKT 421 Professor William Alan McIntyre November 23rd, 2015 Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Introduction In the current competitive market, businesses often adopt several strategies so as to compete effectively. These strategic moves are usually derived from market – competing strategies. Innovation and creativity are the keys whereby organizations can focus on finding and creating new market spaces resulting in the opening of the new market and increasing
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper University of Phoenix Marketing MKT/421 Michael Wells June 10, 2014 Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Blue Ocean Strategy is a business strategy for businesses to overcome ones competition in a unique way that will separate themselves from the competition. According to Kim, W., & Mauborgne, R., “The blue ocean include the potential industries that do not exist at present and all the untapped market spaces and demand demographics that will take shape as and when such
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