• Blue Ocean Strategy

  • How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
  • By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (3,595 ratings)

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Blue Ocean Strategy

By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Publisher's summary

Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant.

In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Based on a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than 100 years and 30 industries, they provide a systematic approach that every company can use to render rivals obsolete and unleash new demand:

  • Reconstruct market boundaries
  • Focus on the big picture
  • Reach beyond existing demand
  • Get the strategic sequence right
  • Overcome organizational hurdles
  • Build execution into strategy
  • ©2005 W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, published by arrangement with Harvard Business School Press (P)2006 Gildan Media Corp

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    "Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters." (Publishers Weekly)

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    Amazing book

    A must for every entrepreneur. Clear, concise and with lots of examples. I absolutely loved it.

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    highly insightful

    this is a good book for someone trying to define frameworks for strategy development

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    Adding value

    Great book. Helps filter good ideas from bad ones especially in an over saturated market environment

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    Good insights

    Nothing really new in this book. Good insights, but repeating a lot of what readers would know from other business books.

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    A Great Listen!

    Why not make the competition irrelevant! What a great approach that any company can use. No wonder this is an International bestseller! I found the reader to be excellent.

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    A whale of a business strategy book.

    Timeless and relevant, this book will forever remain etched in the big library of value innovation books.

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    Great strategy description

    This books reveals some good tactics to be applied that distinguish blue strategy innovators from that of imitators or followers.
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    This is a classic must read

    This is a classic must read on the nature of strategy formation, execution, and what creating new markets really looks like. Enjoy!

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    Well differentiated story

    Good positioning and quite literal in it's explanations. Blue ocean strategy well explained in simplistic terms.

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    Good examples

    Some say on the review that the book is repetitive and at times it may feel that way but it by no means feel overly excessive. They are all worth it when you think about all the red and blue ocean business examples you are learning about.

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