Blue ocean strategy for project management

Blue Ocean Strategy

The Blue Ocean Strategy is a strategy to gain a competitive advantage. It is used to create uncontested market space and to make the competition irrelevant. New demands are made instead of fighting over existing demand, where fighting for shear of the demand will always be limited. This strategy has the possibility to open up an opportunity for rapid and profitable growth. The strategy is meant to be used for companies that builds future where the customers, employees, shareholders, and society wins. The people behind the Blue Ocean Strategy are W.Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne. They met in a classroom where Mr. W.Chan was a professor, and Miss Reneé was a student, twenty years ago (1995). The Blue Ocean Strategy is relevant for Innovation Management departments, or entrepreneurs wanting to create something for unknown markets.

Analytical Tools & Frameworks

Three Characteristics

1. Focus
2. Divergence
3. Compelling Tagline

Three Steps

1. Strategy Canvas
2. Four Action Framework
3. Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create Grid

The 8 Principles of Blue Ocean Strategy Formulation Principles

• Reconstruct Market Boundaries

The first principle of the blue ocean strategy is to change the market boundaries to brake from the competition and to create blue oceans.

• Focus On the Big Picture

Strategy Canvas

• Reach Beyond Existing Demands
• Get the Strategy Sequence Right

Execution Principles

• Overcome Key Organizational Hurdles
• Build Execution Into Strategy
• Align the Value Profit and People Proposition
• Renew Blue Oceans

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