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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press; Expanded edition edition (3 Feb. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1625274491
  • ISBN-13: 978-1625274496
  • Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 15.9 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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"Blue Ocean Strategy" A bestseller across 5 continents. More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide. Translated into 43 languages. "A Wall Street Journal," "BusinessWeek," and "Fast Company" bestseller.


Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
The "Fast Company" Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting


Praise for "Blue Ocean Strategy"
- A bestseller across 5 continents
- More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
- Translated into 43 languages
- A "Wall Street Journal," "BusinessWeek," and "Fast Company" bestseller
- Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
- The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
- Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting


Praise for "Blue Ocean Strategy"
A bestseller across 5 continents
More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
Translated into 43 languages
A "Wall Street Journal," "BusinessWeek," and "Fast Company" bestseller
Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting
"

A great read for any leader looking to get a real edge in business and establish a real competitive advantage in the market. "Qantas The Australian Way"
Praise for "Blue Ocean Strategy"
A bestseller across 5 continents
More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
Translated into 43 languages
A "Wall Street Journal," "BusinessWeek," and "Fast Company" bestseller
Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting
"

"Blue Ocean Strategy" is the most successful book on business master-planning in recent years. "The Economist"
A great read for any leader looking to get a real edge in business and establish a real competitive advantage in the market. "Qantas The Australian Way"
Praise for "Blue Ocean Strategy"
A bestseller across 5 continents
More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
Translated into 43 languages
A "Wall Street Journal," "BusinessWeek," and "Fast Company" bestseller
Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting
"

Blue Ocean Strategy is the most successful book on business master-planning in recent years. The Economist
A great read for any leader looking to get a real edge in business and establish a real competitive advantage in the market. Qantas The Australian Way
Praise for Blue Ocean Strategy
A bestseller across 5 continents
More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
Translated into 43 languages
A Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company bestseller
Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting
"

"Blue Ocean Strategy" is the most successful book on business master-planning in recent years." -- The Economist
"A great read for any leader looking to get a real edge in business and establish a real competitive advantage in the market." -- Qantas The Australian Way
Praise for Blue Ocean Strategy
- A bestseller across 5 continents
- More than 3.5 million copies sold worldwide
- Translated into 43 languages
- A Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company bestseller
- Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
- The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
- Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting


"Blue Ocean Strategy is the most successful book on business master-planning in recent years." -- The Economist

"A great read for any leader looking to get a real edge in business and establish a real competitive advantage in the market." -- Qantas The Australian Way

Praise for Blue Ocean Strategy

  • A bestseller across 5 continents
  • More than 3.6 million copies sold worldwide
  • Translated into 44 languages
  • A Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company bestseller
  • Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
  • The Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
  • Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting

    About the Author

    W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne are Professors of Strategy at INSEAD and Codirectors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, which is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies, is being published in a record-breaking 44 languages, and is a bestseller across five continents. Kim and Mauborgne rank in the top 3 management gurus in the world in The Thinkers50 list and are the recipients of numerous academic and management awards around the world including the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking, the Carl S. Sloane Award by the Association of Management Consulting Firms, the Leadership Hall of Fame by Fast Company, and the Eldridge Haynes Prize by the Academy of International Business among others. Kim is an advisor to several countries and Mauborgne served as a member of President Barack Obama's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the President's two terms.



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What else can be said about the framework, the book, the authors and the exposition on those powerful tools that have not been said already! You will be doing yourself, your employees and your employers a disservice by not reading this book. It does not matter who you are, where you are, what you do; just grab a copy and read. This is the only way you can raise your game.

I had been introduced to the four-action framework during my MBA; however, reading the book has not only further improved my understanding of that framework but introduced me to new paradigms and complimentary toolsets which any manager, entrepreneur or consultant must have in their armoury.
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Bought it for extra reading , didn't disappoint and is easy to read despite the content.
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You will think different after reading this book. Insightful reading. Invaluable advice. This is what the should teach in every school!!
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Great book. Lots of interesting case studies
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Awesome book and was delivered on time
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I've been following the Blue Ocean approach since the authors started publishing articles in the Harvard Business Review in the late 1990s. Even though I had been introduced to some of the techniques before (and seen other versions of the strategy canvas elsewhere in the customer value literature), I loved the original book.

For me, the big question is whether this new version is worth buying if you already have the original?

It's an extended version and not a rewrite. There's a new introduction where the authors reflect on their experience and feedback on the Blue Ocean ideas and stress the increased importance for challenging existing market boundaries as the world needs more at lower cost. This ties in well with me as I'm gloomy about the future with the debt overhang, resource shortages and climate change which mean the past isn't a reliable guide for the years ahead.

The meat of the new version comes in chapters:
9 - Align Value, Profit and People Propositions
10 - Renew Blue Oceans
11 - Avoid Red Ocean Traps
These replace the previous final chapter 9, conclusion: the sustainability and renewal of blue ocean strategy.

I'm a little disappointed that the earlier chapters weren't updated. I haven't done a word for word comparison but the examples seemed familiar. I think that new insights or nuances will have emerged from the techniques and it's helpful to update the success stories.

These new chapters help round off the earlier ideas and help relieve some of the criticisms that come from attempts to create blue oceans which flounder of the wheel of strategy implementation.
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Loved this book. It brought a new way of thinking to how my work and how I approach challenges. Includes a comprehensive set of frameworks with multiple examples on how to deploy them. What is important to note is that Blue Ocean Strategy isn't a strategy in itself, but more a set of methodologies from conception to implementation.
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Excellent book, about an inch thick, so not a quick read for busy types.
But got this book after hearing its overview on the HBR PodCast then used this book as a backfill - very effective.
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