2. Reminds you of something?
How attractive do you think, is the industry?
What are the alternative forms of entertainment?
And what do you think of the competition out there?
Surviving in such a market space?
Acquiring admiration of forty million people in ninety cities around the world ?
Baffled yet?
3. “We Reinvent the Circus”
Creating Blue Oceans
Did not compete with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
Created uncontested new market space
Appealed to adults and corporate clients
Prepared to pay a price several times
An unprecedented entertainment experience
Cirque du Soleil
“The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.”
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4. The Market Universe
RedOceans
(theknownmarketspace)
Blue Oceans
(the unknown market space)
Untapped market space
OnlyCommodities
Opportunity for Growth and ProfitNo rules
LowProfitProspects
Created from within Red Oceans
Competition Irrelevant
The rules are waiting to be set
No Bloody red Ocean
Demand Creation
Allrulesareset…
How do we ‘Reinvent the Circus’?
SwimandOutcompete
Sustainability
TheContinuousCreationofBlue
Oceans
5. 2015
2014
2013
2012
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Look back a 100 years!
How many of today’s industries were then unknown?
automobiles
music recording
Aviation, petrochemicals
health care
management consulting
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Turn the clock back only 30 years!
A plethora of multi-billion dollar industries jumps out!
Mutual funds, cell phones, gas-fired electricity
plants, biotechnology,
discount retail, express package delivery,
minivans, snowboards,
coffee bars, and home videos
And the market place continues to evolve…….
6. The Raw Figures
Business launches of
108 companiesLineextensions
93 Created Blue Oceans15
62 percent of total revenues
39 percent of total profits
38 percent of total revenues
61 percent of total profits
7. The Rising Imperative
Accelerated technological advances
Industrial productivity
Globalization
Disappearing niche markets and havens for monopoly
Increasing price wars and shrinking profit margins
Accelerated commoditization of products
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Choosing the right unit of analysis?
Company/ industry vs. strategic move
> 150 strategic moves
1880 to 2000
> 30 industries
8. Value Innovation
Beat the competition
Build a Defensible Position
Make the competition irrelevant
Open up new and uncontested market space.
Create a leap in value for buyers and your company
Value Creation
technology-driven, market pioneering, or futuristic
bleeding-edge technology
“timing for market entry.”
Utility
price
costpositions
value-cost trade-off
9. Analytical Tools and Frameworks
The U.S. wine industry
Thirdlargestaggregateconsumptionof
wineworldwide
intense competition
mounting price pressure
increasing bargaining power on the part of distribution channels
flat demand despite overwhelming choice.
The Strategy Canvas
The Four Actions Framework
The Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create Grid
10. The range of factors the industry competes on and invests in.
Theofferinglevelthatbuyersreceiveacrossallthese
keycompetingfactors
value curve
TheStrategyCanvas
classic
differentiate on
strategy
11. Benchmark Competitors
Try to outcompete
Conduct extensive customer research
Reorienting strategic focus from competitors to alternatives, and from customers to noncustomers of the
industry!
How to make a fun and nontraditional wine that’s easy to drink for everyone ?
Casella Wines
16. Reconstruct Market Boundaries
The six paths framework
Path 1: Look Across Alternative Industries
Substitutes vs. Alternatives
Focus on the key factors that lead buyers to trade across alternative industries
The case of NetJets - fractional jet ownership
Path 2: Look Across Strategic Groups Within Industries
Understand which factors determine customers’ decisions to trade up or down from one group to another
The Curves club experience
Path 3: Look Across the Chain of Buyers
The purchasers, the actual users, and influencers.
Redesign value curves to focus on a previously overlooked set of buyers
The Case of Novo Nordisk
Path 4: Look Across Complementary Product and Service Offerings
Rivals converge within the bounds of their industry’s product and service offerings
Define the total solution buyers seek when they choose a product or service
what happens before, during, and after your product is used
Talking about Philips Electronics
17. Reconstruct Market Boundaries
The six paths framework
Path 5: Look Across Functional or Emotional Appeal to Buyers
Simpler, lower-priced, lower-cost business model
Infuse commodity products with new life by adding a dose of emotion
The experience of QB (Quick Beauty) House
Path 6: Look Across Time
From the value a market delivers today to the value it might deliver tomorrow
Finding insight in trends that are observable today
Trends must be decisive to the business, they must be irreversible, and they must have a clear trajectory
The Case of i-Tunes
18. Focus on The Big Picture
Draw Your Strategy Canvas
Visual Awakening
Visual Exploration
Visual Strategy Fair
Visual Communication
Use the Strategy Canvas
Use the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler (PMS) Map
Overcome the Limitations of Strategic Planning
Reach Beyond Existing Demand
strategic profile of an industry
strategic profile of current and potential competitors
company’s strategic profile
Compare your business with your competitors
Go into the field and explore the
six paths to creating blue
oceans
draw a value curve
Get feedback
Eliminate-Reduce-
Raise-Create Grid
one-page picture
Samsung Electronics of Korea
Value Innovation Program (VIP) Center
plot the company’s current and planned portfolios
See where your strategy
needs to change
19. Reach Beyond Existing Demand
Think noncustomers before customers; commonalities before differences; and desegmentation
before pursuing finer segmentation
“Soon-to-be” noncustomers
“Refusing” noncustomers
“Unexplored”
noncustomers
Go for the Biggest Catchment
Don’tfindyourselfinapuddle!
20. GetTheStrategic
SequenceRight
Testing for Exceptional Utility
The buyer utility map
The Six Stages of the Buyer Experience Cycle
The Six Utility Levers
From Exceptional Utility to Strategic Pricing
Step 1: Identify the Price Corridor of the Mass
Step 2: Specify a Level Within the Price Corridor
From Strategic Pricing to Target Costing
From Utility, Price, and Cost to Adoption
Employees
Business Partners
The General Public
Philips’ CD-i
Merrill Lynch
SAP
Monsanto
23. Overcome Organizational Hurdles
cognitive
why rock the boat?
limitedresources
Motivation
politics
Tipping Point Leadership How?
disproportionate influence on performance
Break Through the Cognitive Hurdle
make people see and experience harsh reality
internally driven of people’s own accord
Meet with Disgruntled Customers
Jump the Resource Hurdle
multiplying the value of the resources
Horse trading
Redistribute Resources to Your Hot Spots
Redirect Resources from Your Cold Spots
Jump the Motivational Hurdle
Zoom in on Kingpins
Place Kingpins in a Fishbowl
Atomize to Get the Organization to Change Itself
Knock Over the Political Hurdle
Secure a Consigliere on Your Top Management Team
24. Build Execution into Strategy
Poor Process Can Ruin Strategy Execution
The Right Lubricant for Lubber
The Power of Fair Process
procedural justice
The Three E Principles
Engagement
Explanation
Expectationclarity
A Tale of Two Cities
Plants
Commitment, trust, and voluntary cooperation
25. The Sustainability and
Renewal of Blue Ocean Strategy
How easy or difficult is blue ocean strategy to imitate?
BarrierstoImitation
A value innovation move does not make sense based on conventional strategic logic
Brand image conflict prevents companies from imitating a blue ocean strategy
Natural monopoly blocks imitation when the size of a market cannot support new player
Patents or legal permits block imitation
The high volume generated by a value innovation leads to rapid cost advantages
Network externalities
Even large advertising budgets by an aggressive imitator rarely have the strength to
overtake the brand buzz earned by the value innovator.
When to Value-Innovate Again?
monitor value curves on the strategy canvas
swim as far as possible in the blue ocean, making yourself a moving target, distancing yourself from your early
imitators, and discouraging them in the process
Reach out for another value innovation to create a new blue ocean