Statement of the purpose of the book: “Blue Ocean Strategy” Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is the result of a decade-long study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years (1880-2000) by authors Kim‚ W. C.‚ Mauborgne‚ R. BOS is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry‚ but to create new market space or a blue ocean‚ thereby making the competition irrelevant. BOS offers a set of
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Last week lesson‚ we talked about the difference of Red Ocean strategy and Blue Ocean strategy. Red ocean is all about competition‚ companies in Red Ocean have to squeeze profit margin in order to survive in their industries. There is no one market that is never saturated‚ once more and more competitors approach to the market and share the pie of profit; profit margin of each company would goes down. Then‚ company may have to cut cost or lower product selling price to sustain profit‚ besides consumers
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Blue Ocean Strategy While traditional approaches to corporate strategy‚ such as those presented by Porter‚ Oster‚ and Duggan emphasize victory through direct competition in existing markets‚ blue ocean strategy stresses the avoidance of conflict as key to long term commercial prosperity. By creating new demand rather than battling for existing market space‚ a firm can position itself for rapid growth‚ profitability‚ and dominant brand equity. While certain organizational traits ease the implementation
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TLFeBOOK Blue Ocean Strategy ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim Renée Mauborgne H A R VA R D B U S I N E S S S C H O O L P R E S S BOSTON‚ MASSACHUSETTS Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in or introduced
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global strategy in branded footwear or a strategy that varies significantly from geographic region to geographic region? If the latter‚ what are the specific strategy differences from region to region? Our company employs global strategy. 3. Is your company employing a global strategy in private-label footwear or a strategy that varies significantly from geographic region to geographic region? If the latter‚ what are the specific strategy differences from region to region? Same strategy in this
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business is Marriott in? Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? b. How does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? c. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? • What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? • How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? 1. Are the four components of Marriott ’s financial strategy consistent with
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CHAPTER 11: FORWARD AND FUTURES HEDGING‚ SPREAD‚ AND TARGET STRATEGIES END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 1. (Short hedge and long hedge) Another type of hedge situation is faced when a party plans to purchase an asset at a later date‚ such as a bread maker. Fearing an increase in wheat prices‚ the bread maker would buy futures contracts. Then‚ if the price of wheat increases‚ the wheat futures price also will increase and produce a profit on the futures position. That profit will at
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Chanunnett Manoonpong‚ Rennick Palley‚ Zhihui Zhang‚ Aaron (Jialin) Zhong DATE: August 22nd‚ 2013 ------------------------------------------------- RE: Mariott Corporation Capital Structure ------------------------------------------------- Marriott Corporation‚ with its comparative advantage in hotel development and management‚ has expected excellent future growth and profitability. Such increase in sales might bring in extra cash flow‚ resulting in underutilized debt capacity. Therefore‚ we
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Business Strategies 1 Marriott Norma A. Hill Professor: Patrick Kehres HRM 530- Strategic Human Resources Management October 20‚ 2014 Running head: HRM and Business Strategies 2 The following paper will take a look at the efficiency of the day to day management of the Marriott Chain of hotels. Marriott is a very popular hotel and it is my goal to determine if their HR strategy is in alignment with their business strategy. Marriott
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marketing clearly focused on how companies can survive in a highly competitive market‚ for example by a choosing a strategy of differentiation or cost leadership. The authors of the book Blue Ocean Strategy argue‚ however‚ that intensive competition will only lead to bloody red oceans in which companies find themselves fighting over an ever-shrinking profit pool. Blue Ocean Strategy‚ on the other hand‚ is a very practical book that dares to deviate from this path by challenging and motivating companies
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