The Blue Ocean Strategy Reader: The iconic articles by bestselling authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

The Blue Ocean Strategy Reader: The iconic articles by bestselling authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

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  • Author:W. Chan Kim
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Summary

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3。5 million copies globally and is in print in forty-three different languages。 But much of W。 Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review。 This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place。

Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of focusing on noncustomers and creating “blue oceans”: uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition。 They also introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Strategy Canvas, the Six Paths Framework, the Four Actions Framework, the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler Map, the Buyer Utility Map, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide—the tools that have come to make up the Blue Ocean Strategy framework。 This collection also features Kim and Mauborgne’s latest Harvard Business Review article, “Red Ocean Traps。”

Whether or not you’re familiar with Blue Ocean Strategy, this book will give you another perspective onto this widely accepted framework—and help you implement it in your organization。

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Reviews

Ujaya Shakya

Completed 2nd round of Blue Ocean Strategy which has opened my mind and gave me more confident at this hour。 Five key learnings are: 1) Industry structure can be reshaped 2) Business idea does not need to be customer-oriented 3) Technology is not the defining factor 4) Does not have to be first rather it’s about being first to get it right。 5)Competition should not occupy the center of strategic thinking #Blueocean #Lockdown2020

Stephen Achilles

Blue Ocean Strategy is a compelling idea for organizational strategy。 The reader is a great place to start as it includes many important related topics including structure, leadership, strategic traps and more。

KNCHNGL

Had been seeking to re-familiarize myself with this material since first coming across it during my MBA days。Pleasantly surprised that much of the purported principles are for the most part, generally applicable, despite the essay from the 1st chapter being 20 years ago, dated 1997。 The various charts, tables and ideas make for a very quick and usable analysis toolkit, as is expected of the product delivered by HBS / MBA / Consultant types。 However, for as a kindle book selling for US$17 release Had been seeking to re-familiarize myself with this material since first coming across it during my MBA days。Pleasantly surprised that much of the purported principles are for the most part, generally applicable, despite the essay from the 1st chapter being 20 years ago, dated 1997。 The various charts, tables and ideas make for a very quick and usable analysis toolkit, as is expected of the product delivered by HBS / MBA / Consultant types。 However, for as a kindle book selling for US$17 released during 2017 Feb, I was hoping for a bit more; particularly in addressing recent technological change of the last couple years - web technologies, platforms & apps, blockchain, etc。In conclusion, this reads like typical MBA material, which is not a bad thing at all - concise, full of examples, and simplified 3-point takeaways。 However, most of us have undoubtedly heard the saying that "You pay a consultant to tell you the time on your watch。" All the possible ideas have probably been thought of, but it's always really the execution that's the most difficult thing。 。。。more

Nader Rizkalla

This is a very good introduction to the principles and tools of "blue ocean strategy" by the creators of this business approach (in a series of articles published in HBR)。Blue Ocean strategy in a nutshell aims to change the strategic focus of companies from competing with others in the existing market boundaries, to exploring how to create a new space for doing business。 Blue Ocean strategist will create a proposition (value, profit, people proposition) based on what is termed a "value curve" an This is a very good introduction to the principles and tools of "blue ocean strategy" by the creators of this business approach (in a series of articles published in HBR)。Blue Ocean strategy in a nutshell aims to change the strategic focus of companies from competing with others in the existing market boundaries, to exploring how to create a new space for doing business。 Blue Ocean strategist will create a proposition (value, profit, people proposition) based on what is termed a "value curve" analysis。 This analysis aims at looking within and beyond the boundaries of the market to identify the elements of product or service that the company need to focus on and to create other elements that did not exist within the industry before。 The book also touches on the process of change as well as applying the value curve to leadership issues。 In the process of change the authors introduce the concept of "procedural justice", a fair change process that meets three criteria: engagement, explanation and expectation clarity。From a practical point of view, I believe it is easy and rewarding to use the tools in a strategic exercise process in any company- if there is a will for change! 。。。more