Blue ocean strategy The maturity of an industry has brought a company swimming in a red ocean, which means price war strategy, according to a bestseller book titled Blue Ocean Strategy that is written by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. This situation influences the way a company evaluates its strategies and effectiveness regularly. Each company has a particular business culture, which is suitable only for the company in a specific industry. This condition may not be suitable when the industry changes
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Blue Ocean Strategy Summary by Jay Robinson Source: Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne Red Ocean: Companies compete for customers Chapter 1 Blue Ocean: Company creates new market Chapter 1 Value Innovation Decrease costs GOAL Increase value to consumer Chapter 2 Analytical Tools and Frameworks • Strategy Canvas • Four Actions Framework • Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create Grid 3 Characteristics of Blue Ocean Strategy 1. Focus 2. Divergence 3. Compelling
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YEPME: A case study on Brand Development "Why can't India produce the next big global fashion brand, why can't we produce an H&M" Vivek Gaur, cofounder of Yepme [1] This was the statement by cofounder of Yepme on 10th April, 2014, when Yepme went global under “Yepmeworld.com” name. After achieving significant success in Indian apparel market Yepme is planning to go global. Although when area is bigger, risks are much bigger. But only thing that can ensure their success, or at least survival is their
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Introduction Innovation is a key factor in industry growth. Innovators can dominate competitors and new markets. In the article “Blue Ocean or Fast Second Innovation? A Four Breakthrough Model to Explain Successful Market Domination”, Buisson and Siberzahn (2010) highlight how the theories of the first mover and fast second are recognized as the primary approaches to achieving innovation and domination in the market space. Buisson and Siberzahn (2010), insist that neither of these two theories
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper KT/421 What is Blue Ocean Strategy and its importance Blue Ocean strategy is a strategic form of marketing which ideal model is to be different in a new market place. Blue Ocean strategy goal is to create a new way of marketing instead of common forms of marketing such as competiveness. Another one of Blue Ocean strategy goal is to set the pace with unique products with profit gain in new markets. Blue Ocean believes in leaving the ways of Red Ocean which
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper 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 that are
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Blue Ocean Strategy Shawn Good MKT/421 August 18, 2014 Mark McClintock Blue Ocean Strategy If a company wants to be an overachiever, sometimes a company needs to venture out in untested waters to see what can happen with a product or service it will offer. Companies can find out if what they are offering will be successful or not, instead of being complacent in companies doing the same thing. There are two strategies to companies doing something new called blue ocean strategy. Or the
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Fresh – Blue Ocean Strategy? Khurram Abbas | September 19, 2011 It was a very creative thought, when a very famous writer whose name no one knows, once said “When all think alike, then no one is thinking”. But the idea struck everybody, and we all understood the importance of innovation and creativity and standing out as an individual, group or as a team meant. Similarly, each brand is different and needs to stand-out being unique and innovative in approach and strategy. Here is where the Blue Ocean
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vast majority of companies focus on stating in the “red ocean” as they are fighting over customers in the same market share. This author explains the reason behind this is that most companies use “competition-based red ocean strategies which has also seen them cut cost and take market share from rivalry competitors. As oppose to focusing on the “ red ocean” Kim and Mauborgne (2004) mention company’s need to begin shifting toward the “blue ocean” if they want to succeed. This can be achieved by offering
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Blue Ocean Strategy Blue Ocean Strategy The principle of a Blue Ocean Strategy is when a business reinvents itself within its given market to make them stand out as different from the rest of the competition. A company does this by an area within the market that is untouched or has low competition. According to Chan and Renee (2004) “Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.” An example
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