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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What are black holes? Most people define them as dark chasms in space which “suck” in anything that gets near them. Although this description of black holes is not necessarily wrong‚ there is a lot more to black holes than what many know. The following paper discusses such things. Before such a terrifying body as a black hole comes into existence‚ it starts off as a beautiful‚ bright star. While most stars usually end up becoming white dwarfs‚ which are what stars become after they have
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One day while walking to school early in the morning i noticed a penny on the ground and went to pick it up. When i picked it up my surroundings totally changed. Apparently when i picked up the penny it caused a worm hole through the fabric of space and time. I looked around me and picked up a newspaper and found it to be March 4th 1841 and president Harrison was just elected. I then traveled to Washington D.C for answers to find President Harrison and speak with him before he dies in office. I
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VIRGIN BLUE UNDERSTANDING EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 1. Attractiveness of the Industry 1a. Identify the industry‚ product segments and value chain The industry is the Australian airline industry (global). Core activities cover providing travel services to leisure travellers in Australia and overseas‚ including flights‚ travel insurance‚ holiday packaged deals‚ and freight business. Products segments including ▪ Business travel ▪ 57.1% of industry revenue ▪ full-fare ▪ business &
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1. Is Jet Blue appropriately positioned to create and maintain a strategic competitive advantage? Yes they are. Jet blues customer service is tremendous. They had the one valentine day massacre but they bounced right back. As a company they know where they have to be in order to succeed in the future. They know about great customer service and low price. Gas prices are rising and with the expansion of the e190‚ I believe this flight will help their revenue increase in the future. 2
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The Blue Zones The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner talks about the author’s research in different places who have people who live into very long years of their life in a few areas of the world who claim to have the highest number of the oldest people. Blue Zone is a concept used to identify a demographic and/or geographic area of the world where people live measurably longer lives‚ as Dan Buettner describes in his book. The concept had
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Blue is the favorite color of all people. It’s nature’s color for water and sky‚ but is rarely found in fruits and vegetables. Today‚ blue is embraced as the color of heaven and authority‚ denim jeans and corporate logos. It is cold‚ wet‚ and slow as compared to red’s warmth‚ fire‚ and intensity. Blue has more complex and contradictory meanings than any other color. These can be easily explained by pinpointing by the specific shade of blue. Bright blue: cleanliness‚ strength‚ dependability
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at first is the colour‚ blue. Blue is known as the coolest colour. The reason blue is my favorite reason is that of all the colors in the spectrum blue compliments almost all other colors. Blue is the master of backdrops. Interestingly‚ blue is the color of the universe and nature such as sky‚ ocean‚ sleep‚ twilight. Besides that‚ blue is the color of inspiration‚ sincerity‚ modernatization and spirituality. Blue is often the chosen color by conservative people. Blue is the calming color that
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The short documentary‚ Blue Gold‚ presented an issue of our planet’s water supply. Our planet is made out of about 70% of water. However‚ less than 1% of that water is actually drinkable. The issue is that water is becoming scares and due to lack of rain‚ the precious water begins to dry out. As the water source rapidly declines‚ the corporations saw that as a chance to make profit. Therefore‚ we are forced to buy overpriced water. Summary: Blue Gold did a great job representing the issue
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Deloitte & Touche: A hole in the pipeline The main problem at Deloitte & Touche in January 1991 was to retain talented woman in the company. Hiring and retaining the same percentage of man and women has always been a strategic priority for the company. In Deloitte & Touche were hired the best students‚ naturally half men and half women‚ soon after their graduation (in audit and tax services business) or after an MBA program (in the consulting business); they were trained and given a mentor. The
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