Blue Ocean Strategy

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Stop fighting for a bigger slice of a shrinking pie. That is the argument at the heart of this book. Kim and Mauborgne split the whole market universe into two kinds of water. Red oceans are all the industries that exist today: the known space, where boundaries are drawn, the rules are understood, and every company claws for a larger share of the same demand. As the space fills up, prospects for profit and growth drain away. Products turn into commodities, rivals slug it out on price, and the water turns bloody. Blue oceans are the industries that don’t exist yet: untapped space, fresh demand, room for real growth. Out there, competition is irrelevant, because the rules haven’t been written.

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