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Creating Blue Oceans. Jills slides. Blue Ocean?. Guy Laliberte. Cirque de Soleil. Created a new market space New target audience Eliminated star performers and animals Blended opera and ballet. Impact of creating blue oceans.
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Jills slides Blue Ocean?
Cirque de Soleil Created a new market space New target audience Eliminated star performers and animals Blended opera and ballet
Are there lasting “excellent” or “visionary” companies that continuously outperform the market and repeatedly create blue oceans? In Search of Excellence- published 20 years ago 2 years of publication, several companies slipped 2/3 firms had fallen
Built to last • sought out the “successful habits of visionary companies” • followed same foot steps
How to Have a Strategic Move • Managerial actions • Managerial decisions
Examples • Ford • GM • CNN
Analysis of Becoming a Blue Ocean Company • No distinction between the two groups • Achieved by small and large companies • Young and older managers • Attractive and unattractive industries • The analysis failed
The Cornerstone • Value Innovation • Equal importance of value and innovation • Value Creation • Creates value without innovation • Does not stand out in marketplace • Innovation Without Value • Technology-driven, market pioneering, futuristic • Product that is more advanced than what consumers are ready for.
Value Creation • Used Jordan’s Image • Created Value on Shoes
Innovative Technology • Little value created • Market pioneering
Value Innovation • Aligns innovation with • Utility • Price • Cost • Ignores value-cost trade-off • Pursues differentiation and low-cost • Not just about innovation • Whole system approach
Atari Corporation: PONG • Tennis Sports Game • Led to the start of the video game industry
Value Innovation: Cornerstone of Blue Ocean Strategy • Cost savings are made by reducing the factors an industry competes on • Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered
Circus Market • Shrinking circus market • Circuses used benchmarking to compete • Best clowns and lion tamers • Pushed up costs • No increased revenue • Resulted in drop in demand for traditional circus
Cirque du Soleil • New form of live entertainment • Attracts adults and kids • Kids - circus market • Adults - theater market • Great combination for families • Circus/Theater • Combined excitement of circus with the “intellectual sophistication and artistic richness” of the theater
Cirque du Soleil Circus Theater Created theme • Story line Different productions • Included original and unique score Featured dance • From theater and ballet • Clowns • More sophisticated • Less slapstick • Tent • Prettier outside • More comfortable inside • Acrobats • Made more elegant and artistic
Cirque du Soleil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5MvTy-JTk
Blue Ocean • Cirque du Soleil created a blue ocean • Drew from circus market • Drew from theater market • No direct competitors • Priced against theater tickets • Aligned innovation with utility, cost and price
Importance of Blue Oceans • Accelerated technological advances • Improved productivity • Wide range of products and services • Supply exceeds demand • No evidence of demand increase • Brands are becoming similar • Hard to differentiate • Select based on price
Formulating and Executing Blue Ocean Strategy • Always involves opportunity/risk • Red Oceans continue to dominate • Playing field is unbalanced in favor of tools and analytical frameworks
Can anyone give an example of a company that used blue ocean strategy?