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The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents--now updated and expanded with new content. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. A strategy classic.

In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, now updated with fresh content from the authors, 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), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating "blue oceans"--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes:

• A new preface by the authors: Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red
• Updates on all cases and examples in the book, bringing their stories up to the present time
• Two new chapters and an expanded third one--Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps --that address the most pressing questions readers have asked over the past 10 years

A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this bestselling book charts a bold new path to winning the future. Consider this your guide to creating uncontested market space--and making the competition irrelevant.

To learn more about the power of BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, visit blueoceanstrategy.com. There you'll find all the resources you need--from ideas in practice and cases from government and private industry, to teaching materials, mobile apps, real-time updates, and tips and tools to help you make your blue ocean journey a success.

The collection you need to create more blue oceans.

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne changed the field of strategy and the language of business with their pathbreaking "blue ocean strategy," a model for creating uncontested markets that unlock new demand and new opportunities for growth. This book brings together three of their classic blue ocean strategy articles, all first published in Harvard Business Review.

"Blue Ocean Strategy" highlights the distinct differences between market-competing (red ocean) and market-creating (blue ocean) strategy and what it takes to create the new markets of tomorrow.

In "Red Ocean Traps," Kim and Mauborgne reveal the faulty assumptions that keep managers tethered to existing overcrowded markets (red oceans).

"Blue Ocean Leadership" applies the concepts and analytic frameworks of blue ocean strategy to an innovative leadership approach that releases employees' untapped talent and energy while conserving their most precious resource--time.

This collection is the ideal start, or refresher, for creating more blue oceans.

Ten years ago, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne broke ground by introducing "blue ocean strategy," a new model for discovering uncontested markets that are ripe for growth. In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they apply their concepts and tools to what is perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership: closing the gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of employees. Research indicates that this gulf is vast: According to Gallup, 70% of workers are disengaged from their jobs. If companies could find a way to convert them into engaged employees, the results could be transformative. The trouble is, managers lack a clear understanding of what changes they could make to bring out the best in everyone. In this article, Kim and Mauborgne offer a solution to that problem: a systematic approach to uncovering, at each level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give their all, and a process for getting managers throughout the company to start doing them. Blue ocean leadership works because the managers' "customers"--that is, the people managers oversee and report to--are involved in identifying what's effective and what isn't. Moreover, the approach doesn't require leaders to alter who they are, just to undertake a different set of tasks. And that kind of change is much easier to implement and track than changes to values and mind-sets.

The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

Chart a path to creating uncontested market space and winning the future. This collection of work by globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne brings together their perennial bestseller book Blue Ocean Strategy with their classic articles “Blue Ocean Leadership” and “Red Ocean Traps.”

Blue Ocean Strategy, the global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies and is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, 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), Kim and Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating “blue oceans”—untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. The book presents a systematic approach to making competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans.

In the article “Blue Ocean Leadership,” the authors apply their concepts and tools to what is perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership: closing the gulf between the potential and realized talent and energy of employees. The authors offer a systematic method for uncovering, at every level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give it their all and a process for getting managers throughout the company to undertake these tasks.

In the article “Red Ocean Traps,” the authors show how managers’ mental models—ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works—undermine attempts to discover uncontested new market spaces. The authors provide a framework for avoiding spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans) and moving to blue ocean spaces with ample potential.

The best of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place.

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 4 million copies globally and is in print in 46 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place.

Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of creating “blue oceans”––uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide—tools that have come to make up the blue ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the authors’ latest Harvard Business Review article, “Red Ocean Traps.”

Whether or not you’re familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book will give you a new perspective on this important framework—and help you implement it in your organization.

This volume includes the articles “Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth,” “Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,” “Creating New Maket Space,” “Knowing a Winning Business Idea When You See One,” “Charting Your Company’s Future,” “Tipping Point Leadership,” “Blue Ocean Strategy,” “How Strategy Shapes Structure,” “Blue Ocean Leadership,” and “Red Ocean Traps: The Mental Models That Undermine Market-Creating Strategies.”

As established markets become less profitable, companies increasingly need to find ways to create and capture new markets. Despite much investment and commitment, most firms struggle to do this. What, exactly, is getting in their way? World-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, the authors of the best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy have spent over a decade exploring that question. They have seen that the trouble lies in managers' mental models--ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works. Though these models may work perfectly well in mature markets, they undermine executives' attempts to discover uncontested new spaces with ample potential (blue oceans) and keep companies firmly anchored in existing spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans). In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they describe how to break free of these red ocean traps. To do that, managers need to: (1) Focus on attracting new customers, not pleasing current customers; (2) Worry less about segmentation and more about what different segments have in common; (3) Understand that market creation is not synonymous with either technological innovation or creative destruction; and (3) Stop focusing on premium versus low-cost strategies.

The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

Océano Azul, océano rojo de W. Chan Kim y Renée Mauborgne es un volumen de la colección «Imprescindibles» de Conecta, que reúne las ideas esenciales para el profesional y la empresa de hoy por los autores de referencia.

--Edición en colaboración con Harvard Business Review--

Solo un 30 por ciento de los empleados aplican activamente su talento y energía para hacer avanzar a sus organizaciones. El 50 por ciento se limita a pasar el tiempo, mientras que el 20 por ciento restante manifiesta su descontento de maneras contraproducentes. Y una de las principales causas de la falta de compromiso es un mal liderazgo. W. Chan Kim y Renée Mauborgne se inspiran en su célebre estrategia del «Océano Azul» y la aplican para ayudar a los líderes a liberar de manera rápida y económica el talento y la energía no explotados en sus organizaciones.

Y ante la necesidad de crear nuevos mercados para obtener un triunfo a largo plazo, abordan los modelos mentales -que tienen su origen en suposiciones sobre el marketing, la innovación tecnológica, la disrupción creativa o las estrategias competitivas- que anclan a los directivos en «Océanos Rojos», espacios abarrotados en los que las empresas libran una batalla encarnizada por su cuota de mercado.

Los «Imprescindibles» de Conecta, en colaboración con Harvard Business Review, permiten acceder a las grandes ideas de los autores de referencia que inspiran a directivos y profesionales. Este volumen reúne los textos «El liderazgo Océano Azul» y «Trampas del Océano Rojo» de W. Chan Kim y RenéeMauborgne, profesores de INSEAD y autores de La estrategia del Océano Azul.

Esse livro está repleto de exemplos reais e inspiradores de como líderes em diversos setores e organizações deixaram oceanos vermelhos de competição acirrada e passaram para amplos oceanos azuis em novos mercados aplicando o processo e as ferramentas apresentados aqui. Os autores mostram, passo a passo, como construir a confiança em sua equipe para alcançar e aproveitar o novo crescimento. Você vai aprender:

• POR QUE o foco nos concorrentes pode fazer sua empresa perder grandes oportunidades de crescimento e COMO expandir seu pensamento estratégico para além da concorrência;

• POR QUE considerar a destruição e a disrupção criativas como fontes de inovação é um pensamento limitado e COMO você pode crescer por meio da criação não disruptiva;

• DE QUE MODO qualquer pessoa em qualquer tipo de organização – e não apenas os empreendedores – é capaz de fazer a transição do oceano vermelho para o azul com o processo sistemático de cinco passos descrito neste livro;

• POR QUE a confiança das pessoas é fundamental para criar e executar sua estratégia de desenvolvimento e COMO conquistá-la;

• POR QUE você não deve basear seu crescimento nas condições e no ambiente já existentes de seu setor e COMO moldá-los a seu favor para alcançar novos patamares.

"Kim e Mauborgne deram continuidade a seu grande livro com outro sucesso. A transição para o oceano azul reúne os princípios inovadores de seu trabalho original e oferece um plano inteligente e sistemático para ajudar qualquer organização a abandonar a competição nos mercados já existentes e criar novos espaços de mercado. Você não precisa ser um empreendedor ou um gênio da tecnologia para tirar proveito dessas ideias. Basta estar disposto a desafiar as premissas de seu setor, fazer perguntas originais e abraçar sua humanidade." – DANIEL H. PINK, autor de Motivação 3.0

Pour dynamiser sa croissance, l'entreprise qui se trouve dans un environnement concurrentiel saturé, où les produits se ressemblent de plus en plus et où la guerre des prix fait rage, doit s’affranchir des contraintes de son marché. Et, pour sortir de l’« océan rouge » de la concurrence, il lui faut réaliser un saut de valeur, véritable déplacement stratégique, qui aboutira à la création d’un espace de marché entièrement neuf : un océan bleu.

C'est ainsi qu'Apple, eBay, le Cirque du Soleil, JCDecaux et Amazon ont réussi à ouvrir et conquérir des espaces encore vierges et créer une demande entièrement nouvelle. Dans cet ouvrage, W. Chan Kim et Renée Mauborgne ont modélisé ces mouvements stratégiques et proposent une méthodologie indispensable à toute organisation qui cherche à modifier les bases de son secteur ou de son marché.

Trois interrogations fondamentales, soulevées par les entreprises ayant appliqué avec succès une stratégie océan bleu, viennent enrichir cette nouvelle édition :
• Comment aligner les composantes d’une organisation pour mener à bien une stratégie océan bleu ?
• Comment éviter les dix pièges des océans rouges ?
• Que faire quand son océan bleu devient rouge ?

Deux nouveaux chapitres éclairent les grands bouleversements qui affectent l’économie et transforment la stratégie des acteurs sur leurs marchés. Ainsi, le lecteur est encore mieux préparé à découvrir des solutions de croissance originales dans un environnement économique en mutation.