BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 1 TESLA: A BLUE OCEAN MARKETING STRATEGY Matthew Gazda‚ Vanessa Granville‚ and Ryan Schupp Marketing Strategy BU.450.710.52 Johns Hopkins University May 8‚ 2014 BU.450.710.52 – Tesla’s Blue Ocean Strategy – Page 2 Executive Summary Tesla is an innovative electric car manufacturer that intends to overturn the current gaspowered vehicle industry. CEO Elon Musk has masterminded a product that will compete
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Markides‚ 2008). Kim and Mauborgne (2004) and Porter (1996) in their studies articulate the strategy as the process
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McDonald’s using Blue Ocean Strategy McDonald’s is using Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS). Blue Ocean Strategy states that an organization can produce higher growth and profits by creating new demand in an uncontested market space than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers for known customers in an existing industry. First‚ McDonald’s is using the value innovation concept of BOS. By this‚ McDonald’s believe that product/service differentiation and lower cost are achievable simultaneously. The
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Question one: The most important thing when identifying strategy is to distinguish it from operational effectiveness. For the failure to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy is in many cases the main cause to why a company can’t sustain their competitive advantage between its rivals. The mix up is understandable; they are both essential to superior performance‚ however in the same time they work in very different ways. Operational effectiveness is performing different activities
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Blue Ocean Strategy: Blue Ocean Strategy is not about out-performing the competition in the existing industry‚ but to create new market space or a blue ocean‚ thereby making the competition irrelevant. In the assignment we will try to analyze the success of Yes Bank through the framework of Blue Ocean Strategy 1. Value Innovation: Value innovation is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. Yes Bank‚ which started in 2004 without any institutional‚ has a formidable task
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It is important‚ as a part of any companies’ Blue Ocean Strategy‚ to explore the three tiers of non-customers‚ the buyers’ utility map and experience cycle‚ and uncover the blocks to buyers’ utility. As companies explore the three tiers of their non-customers they may be able to uncover an untapped potential for customers. The three tiers of non-customers identifies what customers are not purchasing a product or service you offer‚ as well as why they may not be part of your current consumer group
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Literature Review Most of the companies must have a strategy for competing in the markets in which they offer products or services. The strategy will either be implicit or explicit‚ and the extent to which a company is successful compared with its competitors relies on the creation of competitive advantage through the activities that it performs to design‚ market‚ deliver and support its product or service. They develop strategy at an overall company level‚ within customer sectors and for regions
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Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Summarized by permission of Harvard Business School Press Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. 256 pages Focus Leadership & Management Strategy Sales & Marketing Finance Human Resources IT‚ Production & Logistics Career & Self-Development Small Business Economics & Politics Industries Global Business Concepts & Trends Take-Aways
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years‚ Blue Ocean Strategy.2 The authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenges the classic battle market position by producing a mindset and approach based on creating a new market without competitors. What the book Blue Ocean Strategy is called the blue Ocean. According to W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne achieved this by including creating and capturing new customer needs (blue ocean)‚ as opposed to supporting the existing demand‚ which dominates the classical teorier3 (red ocean). Strategic
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1) Market readiness (cfr. reading material and PPTs class 1‚ 2 and 4): How would you appraise and distinguish Netflix’ on-line movie rental offer compared to Blockbuster‚ Wal-Mart‚ Amazon and others‚ e.g. in terms of user-responsiveness‚ price/(added) value-for-money‚ delivery/convenience‚ …? Max. 40 lines Netflix had developed in the early days of its activity a different approach towards the movie rental industry. First of all‚ the main advantage that Netflix has regarding its competitors
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