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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne 
Rating: 5.0/5 Stars Rank: 167 (New York, New York, USA) February 6, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars The authors have published many articles over the last decade on Value Innovation. This is their first book. It summarizes their extensive knowledge on out-of-the-box strategic thinking. This review is based on an advance reader's copy. What is a BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY? The authors explain it by comparing it to a red ocean strategy (traditional strategic thinking): 1. DO NOT compete in existing market space. INSTEAD you should create uncontested market space. 2. DO NOT beat the competition. INSTEAD you should make the competition irrelevant. 3. DO NOT exploit existing demand. INSTEAD you should create and capture new demand. 4. DO NOT make the value/cost trade-off. INSTEAD you should break the value/cost trade-off. 5. DO NOT align the whole system of a company's activities with its strategic choice of differentiation or low cost. INSTEAD you should align the whole system of a company's activities in pursuit of both differentiation and low cost. A red ocean strategy is based on traditional strategic thinking - e.g. Harvard's strategy guru Michael Porter - and is what the authors believe you should not do. A blue ocean is created in the region where a company's actions favourably affect both its cost structure and it value proposition to buyers. Cost savings are made from eliminating and reducing the factors an industry competes on. Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered. Over time, costs are reduced further as scale economies kick in, due to the high sales volumes that superior value generates. There are two ways to create blue oceans. In a few cases, firms can give rise to completely new industries, as eBay did with the online auction industry. But in most cases, a blue ocean is created from within a red ocean when a company alters the boundaries of an existing industry. The authors have studied more than 150 blue ocean creations in over 30 industries. Examples include: - Japanese fuel-efficient autos (mid-70s) and Chrysler minivan (1984) - Apple personal computer (1978) and Dell's built-to-order computers (mid-1990s). The INSEAD professors Kim and Mauborgne have written regularly on the subject of Value Innovation since 1997 in Harvard Business Review. Being a business development manager, their thought leadership on strategic innovation has inspired me tremendously over the years. Their articles have been standard texts for many MBA students for some time (e.g. "Value Innovation", "Creating New Market Space", "Charting your Company's Future"). I expect their first book to be just as dominant in any strategy library as Michael Porter's books (the guru behind the classic red ocean strategies). Peter Leerskov, M.Sc. in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business
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