Real-world Business Analysis: Blue Ocean Strategy Tools Analysis Paper MMBA-6570 Business Strategy for a Competitive Advantage Dr. Schulz Stephenie Wegmann April 15‚ 2013 Introduction The purpose of the blue ocean strategy is to focus on making the business itself better without focusing on the competition. Kim and Mauborgne (2005) state that “blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the
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McDonald’s using Blue Ocean Strategy McDonald’s is using Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS). Blue Ocean Strategy states that an organization can produce higher growth and profits by creating new demand in an uncontested market space than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers for known customers in an existing industry. First‚ McDonald’s is using the value innovation concept of BOS. By this‚ McDonald’s believe that product/service differentiation and lower cost are achievable simultaneously. The
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Wikipedia: A Blue Ocean Strategy Section A: Group 4 Analysis of Wikipedia‚ as a Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia‚ the collaboratively edited free internet encyclopaedia is a household name. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger‚ it has now grown to be the seventh most visited website with approximately 365 million users worldwide. How is it that the small encyclopaedia market grew more than a hundred times in the space of 8-10 years and changed its orientation in such a path breaking
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Date: 02/05/2013 Article: Harvard‚ Blue ocean strategy “Competing in high overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market place.” This quote that is on the top of the first page just about sums up the article‚ but I will go further in depth in what the article says. What is the best way to drive profitable growth in an industry? Or company? According to the article it is to enter into the market place that
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When I read the "Blue Ocean Strategy"‚ I think the Blue Ocean represents the unknown market space does not yet exist. Blue Ocean is characterized by new market boundaries‚ new demands‚ unpredictable high profit growth‚ without forming competition rules. Now be market conditions‚ market competition requires companies to implement the Blue Ocean strategy. market is in motion‚ the development of new industries and markets are always constantly developed‚ and today the number and type of industry and
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Blue Ocean Strategy Rebecka McCollough MKT/421 January 21‚ 2015 Nikki Butler Blue Ocean Strategy When thinking about opening a business‚ you have to look at whether you want to compete in existing markets or create a new market for your product. When you compete in existing markets‚ you will find many of them are overcrowded and your business will not flourish in this environment. You should want your business to stand out and become profitable‚ that is what Blue Ocean Strategy encompasses
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Blue Ocean Strategy : Ipad and Kindle Fire This analyzes why Ipad and Kindle Fire are Blue Ocean products as oppose to Red Ocean products. Apple achieved a value innovation with Ipad‚ which led to the creation of a new market space. Apple drew the boundaries of the space by educating the customers on its usability. Amazon with its recently launched Kindle Fire targeted non-Ipad users and defined its own space by designing Kindle Fire as a media consumption device with salient features empowered
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BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 1 TESLA: A BLUE OCEAN MARKETING STRATEGY Matthew Gazda‚ Vanessa Granville‚ and Ryan Schupp Marketing Strategy BU.450.710.52 Johns Hopkins University May 8‚ 2014 BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 2 Executive Summary Tesla is an innovative electric car manufacturer that intends to overturn the current gaspowered vehicle industry. CEO Elon Musk has masterminded a product that will compete
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper Karina Visloukh Marketing/421 April 13‚ 2015 Creig Foster Blue Ocean Strategy Paper The Blue Ocean Strategy In blue ocean strategy the demand is created instead of fought over. The rules are not is well defined and the opportunity for the profitable growth exists. The competition is made irrelevant. The blue ocean strategy breaks the value-cost trade off. Value innovation is the cornerstone of the blue ocean strategy. Value innovation is innovation is more than innovation
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Markides‚ 2008). Kim and Mauborgne (2004) and Porter (1996) in their studies articulate the strategy as the process
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