Porter ’s Generic Strategies If the primary determinant of a firm ’s profitability is the attractiveness of the industry in which it operates‚ an important secondary determinant is its position within that industry. Even though an industry may have below-average profitability‚ a firm that is optimally positioned can generate superior returns. A firm positions itself by leveraging its strengths. Michael Porter has argued that a firm ’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost
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A REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS CONDUCTED BY: NAME: MBURU ID: L0471ALAL0211 MODULE: STRATEGIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LECTURER: DAVID ACQUAYE COURSE: BA-BMS 4 DATE: 19TH APRIL‚ 2012 WORDS: 3‚776 SCHOOL: LONDON SCHOOL OF COMMERCE LONDON‚ UNITED KINGDOM Table of Contents Executive Summary3 Chapter One Definition of Blue Ocean Strategy4 The Authors6 Chapter Two Introduction7 Major Differences Between Blue Ocean and Red Ocean7 Conclusion7
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Introduction Porter’s generic strategies framework constitutes a major contribution to the development of the strategic management literature. Generic strategies were first presented in two books by Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School (Porter‚ 1980‚ 1985). Porter (1980‚ 1985) suggested that some of the most basic choices faced by companies are essentially the scope of the markets that the company would serve and how the company would compete in the selected markets. Competitive
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Michael Porter has described a category scheme consisting of three general types of strategies that are commonly used by businesses to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. These three generic strategies are defined along two dimensions: strategic scope and strategic strength. Strategic scope is a demand-side dimension (Michael E. Porter was originally an engineer‚ then an economist before he specialized in strategy) and looks at the size and composition of the market you intend to target. Strategic
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The impact of Blue Ocean Strategy In the earlier work (See Blue Ocean Strategy: how to create uncontested market ‚ 2005) it has been argued two types of strategies: blue ocean strategy and red ocean strategy. Red ocean strategists compete to win market share in traditional mature markets and pursue either a differentiation or cost leader strategy. On the other hand‚ Blue ocean strategists‚ create new environments‚ redefine products or services or the nature of competition‚ make competition irrelevant
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Statement of the purpose of the book: “Blue Ocean Strategy” Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is the result of a decade-long study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years (1880-2000) by authors Kim‚ W. C.‚ Mauborgne‚ R. BOS is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry‚ but to create new market space or a blue ocean‚ thereby making the competition irrelevant. BOS offers a set of
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Blue Ocean Strategy MKT/421 August 11‚ 2014 Blue Ocean Strategy The Blue Ocean Strategy is a slang term for the uncontested market space for an unknown industry or innovation (Investopedia‚ 2014). Take the circus industry‚ for example‚ its appeal is in rapid decline as technology becomes more interesting than seeing chained animals perform. When the circus first came out‚ it was the 1700 where no one had ever seen performances of its kind. Now the traditional circus’s audiences are in
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Blue Ocean Strategy Abby Taylor HMI 408-B1 Kendall College 10 May 2014 Executive Summary “Have you caught the wave?” For those who have not heard this quote before‚ it is associated with a strategic strategy known as Blue Ocean Strategy; Blue Ocean was coined by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. In this strategy‚ the authors use the term “blue ocean” to get people to envision creating their own “blue oceans” which is often thought of as untouched
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opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 70 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 71 Blue Ocean Strategy 80 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Reprint R0410D Blue Ocean Strategy The Idea in Brief
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Contents What is Strategy? .......................................................................................................................................... 2 What is Blue Ocean Strategy? ................................................................................................................... 3 The Paradox of Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 4 Laws of Strategy .................
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