Blue Ocean Strategy
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

The signal-to-noise ratio of business books generally tends towards zero. They fall into one of three categories: baked-over platitudes designed to reinforce the self-esteem of the reader (see First Break all the Rules), laughably faulty reasoning (see Good to Great), and interesting ideas that are......more

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Harvard Business School Press This is an especially thought-provoking book that, as have so many others, evolved from an article published in the Harvard Business Review. Acco......more

The authors provide case studies on how some companies left their "bloody-red" oceans of competition for completely open blue oceans where they were unique. Some are well-known business stories, such as Southwest Airlines becoming a low-cost provider. However, the book provides details into Southwes......more

This well-written book seems like common sense however it is an eye-opener for less sophisticated colleagues who doesn't know much about competitive advantage. It arguments how contested markets ("red oceans") should look for uncontested markets ("blue oceans"). Everything in this book is common sen......more

I had to read this book for a strategy class. Business strategy is all about how you intend to differentiate yourself from the competition and how you plan to get there. The premise of Blue Ocean Strategy is, as stated on page 4, "Red oceans represent all the industries in existence today. This is t......more