Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/ W. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne Chapter One: The blue ocean strategy is best illustrated by the performance of Cirque du Soleil. Created in 1984 by a group of street performers‚ Cirque productions have been seen by almost 40 million people in 90 cities around the world. In less than 20 years‚ Cirque du Soleil has achieved revenue levels that took Ringling and Barnham
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Cranfield‚ MK43 0AL Bedfordshire‚ UK a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 31 July 2011 Received in revised form 14 December 2011 Accepted 7 February 2012 Keywords: Mergers and acquisitions Finance Productivity Size of firms Data envelopment analysis a b s t r a c t This paper reviews literature and management perspectives on airline mergers and acquisitions. We find that M&A/consolidation is seen as a ‘‘game-changer’’ and mandatory to survive in aviation markets. We‚ therefore‚ apply DEA models
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Wikipedia: A Blue Ocean Strategy Section A: Group 4 Analysis of Wikipedia‚ as a Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia‚ the collaboratively edited free internet encyclopaedia is a household name. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger‚ it has now grown to be the seventh most visited website with approximately 365 million users worldwide. How is it that the small encyclopaedia market grew more than a hundred times in the space of 8-10 years and changed its orientation in such a path breaking
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Miranda Stephan AP English 7 February 2013 Character Analysis of The Narrator from “Sonny’s Blues” The narrator of “Sonny’s Blues”‚ by James Baldwin‚ tells the story of his brother’s relationship with drugs‚ and their environment. Unlike most of the men in Harlem‚ the narrator has succeeded in life. He is raising a loving family‚ and he has a steady job as a math teacher. However‚ the narrator is always cautious of the dangers that lurk in Harlem. He knows he should help take care of Sonny
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A Comparative Analysis of Blue Ribbon Investigations Blue Ribbon Investigations are examinations into organizations conducted by a panel “made up of people who have special knowledge or abilities or individuals selected for quality‚ reputation or authority” (). Blue Ribbon Investigations have been conducted to investigate misconduct in various criminal justice agencies and organizations. Police departments have historically been subjected to Blue Ribbon Investigations‚ most notably the Christopher
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In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and
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under the SME Master plan. As a result of the change in definition‚ the percentage of the total number of SME business in the country is expected to increase from 97.3% currently to 98.5%. The company named M. H. Mohd Industries Sdn. Bhd is a combination of Mr. Muhammad bin Yusoff
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AJNRR Consulting Virgin Blue Holdings A Strategic Analysis Prepared by: Andy Ley Joachim Brastein Nathan Westgarth Rishi Dave Ron Stanley * * Contents 1. Executive Summary 2 2. Virgin Blue Now 3 2.1 Introduction 3 2.2 Virgin Blue Overview 3 2.3 Virgin Blue’s Current Strategy 3 3. Outside Virgin Blue 4 3.1 Macroenvironment 4 3.2 Industry Analysis 4 4. Inside Virgin Blue 6 4.1 Resources 6 4.1 Capabilities‚ Distinct Competencies
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The Struggle of Cultural Assimilation: An Analysis of Cultural Clash in “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” In “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy‚ the narrator expresses her longing for Vietnam‚ her home country‚ and how she feels that she and other Vietnamese people represent “fragmented shards” in the American culture- isolated members of a foreign culture. She portrays her emotions almost as if she is pursuing an actual person by using the pronoun “you” in the first stanza to
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For over a century‚ photography has been an important way of visual activism‚ and resistance to societal norms. The first photograph is from W.E.B. DuBois’ collection of the “American Negro” exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition. The second photography is from Zanele Muholi’s collection‚ titled Zukiswa from her black and white portraits of 2010. The critical visual traditions that are represented throughout both of these pieces of photography are meant to respond to acts of violence and dehumanization
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