by Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Reflect for a moment on how effective leadership is in your organization. Is there a gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of your people at work? If yes, how big do you imagine the gulf is – 10 percent, 20 percent, 40 percent or more of talent...
by The Blue Ocean Team | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 2017, Wired magazine described Estonia as ‘the most advanced digital society in the world’. But how did the former Soviet Republic on the edge of the Baltic Sea achieve such an accolade? It created a blue ocean of high differentiation and low cost through its...
by The Blue Ocean Team | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Conventionally, market creation has been seen as the result of a trial-and-error process and the domain of entrepreneurs with certain traits like animal instinct and single-minded determination. The economist Joseph Schumpeter, known for his concept of ‘creative...
by The Blue Ocean Team | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Did you know that 66% of millennials want to start their own business and Generation Z (those born after 1995) are predicted to be even more entrepreneurial than that? But there’s one fact that gets in the way of these youthful ambitions: only 45% of new businesses...
by Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne | Sep 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Most leadership programs are generally designed to hone the cognitive and behavioral skills of leaders with the implicit assumption that this would ultimately translate into high performance. Leaders are accordingly called on to develop traits like self-awareness,...
by The Blue Ocean Team | Sep 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
The first thing you need to know as an entrepreneur or a small business owner is that to grow your business, you have to move away from competing. Don’t try to go up against big established players with huge financial and marketing resources. Instead, to grow your...