TY - BOOK AU - Kim,W.Chan AU - Mauborgne,Renée TI - Blue Ocean Strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant SN - 9781625274496 U1 - 658.4 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business Review Press KW - New products KW - Market segmentation KW - Marketing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Creating blue oceans -- 2. Analytical tools and frameworks -- 3. Reconstruct market boundaries -- 4. Focus on the big picture, not the numbers -- 5. Reach beyond existing demand -- 6. Get the strategic sequence right -- 7. Overcome key organizational hurdles -- 8. Build execution into strategy -- 9. Align value, profit, and people propositions -- 10. Renew blue oceans -- 11. Avoid red oceans traps N2 - It argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), defends that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating "blue oceans"--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth ER -