If You're Curious About These Questions...
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- What if you could make your competition completely irrelevant instead of fighting for every inch of a crowded market?
- Have you ever wondered why some businesses seem to effortlessly create new demand while others are stuck in a cycle of price wars and imitation?
- What’s the secret to moving your organization from a 'red ocean' of cutthroat rivalry to a 'blue ocean' of untapped growth and opportunity?
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Key Takeaways from Blue Ocean Shift
- Learn how to transcend fierce, overcrowded competition in 'red oceans' by moving your business into untouched, opportunity-filled 'blue oceans.'
- Discover the three distinct strategies for market creation: disruptive innovation, non-disruptive creation, and redefining an existing problem to turn an industry on its head.
- Understand the four fundamental traits of a blue ocean strategist, including the crucial mindset that existing industry conditions are entirely malleable.
- Master the approach of making your competitors completely obsolete by simultaneously offering distinct value and low costs to generate brand-new demand.
- Find out why addressing 'humanness' is a central component of this shift, allowing you to ease employee fears and build trust in your new strategic direction.
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Blue Ocean Shift — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Outpace competitors with a blue ocean shift.
Chapter 3: There are specific ways in which new markets emerge today.
Chapter 4: Four traits shape the particularly powerful view of a blue ocean strategist.
Chapter 5: The human element is central to the blue ocean process.
Chapter 6: Assess your position before embarking on your blue ocean journey.
Chapter 7: Chart your competitive value against that of your rival to get a clear picture of where you stand.
Chapter 8: Map customer experience to make your product more accessible.
Chapter 9: Use a straightforward framework to uncover vast opportunities.
Chapter 10: Develop your blue ocean choice by challenging assumptions through a series of questions.
Chapter 11: Bring in your top talent, choose your best blue ocean option and make your move.
Blue Ocean Shift Summary & Overview
Blue Ocean Shift (2017) is a step-by-step guide to moving past competition in an overcrowded industry. These blinks, based on decades of the authors’ practical experience, explain why you should endeavor to make competition obsolete and how you can open up whole new worlds of opportunity.
Who Should Listen to Blue Ocean Shift?
- Entrepreneurs, managers, CEOs and business leaders
- Small business owners
- Business scholars and theorists of competition and market strategy
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