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Blue Ocean Strategy

Explains how to reconstruct value curves by eliminating, reducing, raising and creating factors.

Key takeaways

  1. Differentiation and cost can improve together
  2. Industry assumptions deserve challenge
  3. Noncustomers reveal opportunities

How to apply it in your business

  1. Map competitor value curves
  2. Run an eliminate-reduce-raise-create workshop
  3. Pilot an offering for overlooked customers

About the authors

Kim and Mauborgne are strategy scholars known for value innovation and uncontested market space.

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