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Blue Ocean strategy
Introduction
Blue ocean strategy is an argument fostered by authors on the way companies battled for success through competition. It was published in 2005, and it was based on more than 150 strategies used by more than a decade and thirty industries. Competition has been a key strategy to acquisition of larger market share among companies that produce similar products. The Blue ocean strategy represent analytical tools and frameworks that advances for the company’s ability to systematically capture and create Blue Ocean. The four principles of this strategy have the potential to influence the conventional strategies that various companies utilize. The four principles include the ability to reach beyond current existing demands, correct sequencing of strategies, expanding the focus picture and the means of creating uncontested market share. The market share can be created through restructuring the existing boundaries.
This paper seeks to analyze how blue ocean strategy has influenced the conventional strategies to expansion of the market share given that it makes the spirit of competition irrelevant to business. Furthermore, it seeks to discuss the authors view on blue ocean strategy if it is utopia or reality.
The challenged imposed by blue ocean strategy on conventional strategy models Every business that is established has a business model that guide the manner in which it carry out its operations. The model defines the manner in which the business will entice customers to purchase its goods. In addition, it guides the way the business managers will strategize the delivery of values to the customers. It can be deduced there are two universes that surround business that include red and Blue Ocean. The red ocean represents the market demand that the company has to battle in order to acquire a share. The boundaries of the companies are defined in the red ocean, and the company’s innovative abilities
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