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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.802 EAN: 9781591396192 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1591396190 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: February 03, 2005 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Studio: Harvard Business School Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - The mother of reinvention...This book helps focus the reader on looking at their business, competition and offerings in different and exciting ways. If you are considering a new business venture or product offering, you really should read this book. Rating:  - Strategy will always include opportunity and riskStrategy: 1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans. 2. Put the clock forward 20 to 50 years and ask yourself how many unknown industries will exist. Surprisingly, many of the unknown industries will exist. 3. Value innovation is focusing on making competition irrelevant by creating ... Read More Rating: - Blue OceanAbout half way through. Not a book you can't put down but good airplane reading. Makes you think about different strategies so worth it. Rating: - Worth Understanding the Principles in this BookThe theories and stories in this book should be read by anyone currently a part of running a business. Essentially, a blue ocean is a new market that reaches out to a population not contemplated by the current companies in an existing market. The authors warn companies to get out of the red oceans where daily and bloody battles for market share and new customers occur each day and encourages readers to create a new market, where untapped customers will be drawn in and competition becomes irrelevant ... Read More Rating: - Blue Ocean is a must ReadGood Book and a must read for anyone starting a Business or a new venture. 
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