Book Titles

Blue Ocean Strategy
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition

By Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1625274496
Categories: Competition, Markets, Strategy

52 Quotes Found

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

Untapped value is often hidden in complementary products and services.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

Relationship businesses… have relied heavily on the emotional bond between broker and client. They are ripe for change.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

By looking across time – from the value a market delivers today to the value it might deliver tomorrow – managers can actively shape their future and lay claim to a new blue ocean.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

…the strategic profile with high blue ocean potential has three complementary qualities: focus, divergence, and a compelling tagline.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

[Chief executives] should use innovation because, without it, companies are stuck in the trap of competitive improvements.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

Chief executives] should use value because innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small markets.

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Blue Ocean Strategy:

To reach beyond existing demand, think noncustomers before customers; commonalities before differences; and desegmentation before pursuing finer segmentation.

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