The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader

by W. Chan Kim (Author), Renée A. Mauborgne (Author)

The best of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place.

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies globally and is in print in 44 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place.

Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of creating “blue oceans”––uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide―tools that have come to make up the blue ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the authors’ latest Harvard Business Review article, “Red Ocean Traps.”

Whether or not you’re familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book will give you a new perspective on this important framework―and help you implement it in your organization.

This volume includes the articles “Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth,” “Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,” “Creating New Maket Space,” “Knowing a Winning Business Idea When You See One,” “Charting Your Company’s Future,” “Tipping Point Leadership,” “Blue Ocean Strategy,” “How Strategy Shapes Structure,” “Blue Ocean Leadership,” and “Red Ocean Traps: The Mental Models That Undermine Market-Creating Strategies.”

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PRAISE FOR THE AUTHORS’ BOOK BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY:

“Blue Ocean Strategy is the most successful book on business master-planning in recent years.” ― The Economist

A bestseller across 5 continents
More than 3.6 million copies sold worldwide
Now in 44 languages
A Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fast Company bestseller
Thinkers50 Strategy Award for Best Business Book of the decade
Inducted into the Fast Company Leadership Hall of Fame
Winner of the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting

About the Author
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne are professors at INSEAD and codirectors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. They are the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, which is recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written. Kim and Mauborgne are ranked in the top 3 management gurus in the world on the Thinkers50 list and have received numerous awards around the globe. They are Fellows of the World Economic Forum. For more on these authors and their work, see blueoceanstrategy.com.