Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy, How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant



CloserQ readers, I recently read (listened to on Audible), Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
 
If you are looking at strategies to differentiate your solutions, from your competitors, Blue Ocean is a fantastic read.    The premise is that in competitive (Red) markets (oceans), the companies (fishes) competing (nipping) with each other create a red ocean.  The book offers strategies to create Blue Oceans, where you differentiate your company to increase sales, creativity, and margins. 
 

Blue Ocean is based on studying over 150 strategic positions and initiatives (over 100 years across 30 industries), Chan and Renee argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating “blue oceans”—untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.  Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans.  The book highlights several concrete examples including, Southwest and Cirque Du Soleil. 

Good Reading / Listening!  Below is the link on Amazon:



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