a new metaphor for blue ocean strategy
Post on 13-Sep-2014
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The presentation offers a creative tool to widen the spectrum of Blue Ocean Strategy and its implementation. Visually, we may study products and differentiate them to stand out of the crowd.TRANSCRIPT
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Ali Anani, PhD
A New Metaphor for
Blue OceanS t r a t e g y ( B O S )
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Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is widely accepted as a venuefor Differentiation and adding value to products and services
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BOS has four building blocks. These are:
EliminateIncreaseReduceCreate
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It occurred to me that a visual metaphor would ease the process of performing the four blocks of BOS
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A suitable visual metaphor is relating BOS to a picture
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Let us start the correlation
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Recolor picture…. Recolor your problem, your product. What attributes to Create? Recolor creatively may add new thinking to the application of BOS
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Compress picture…. Compress your problem, to suit intended use and means of delivery. Compress might trigger different ideas than Reduce
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Brighten (or Dim) picture…. Brighten or dim the possibilities resulting from solving the problem of a product or service. Again, Dim and Brighten might trigger different ideas than Reduce or Increase
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Contrast picture…. Contrast the problem at hand. See it from both optimistic and pessimistic views. Contrast isn’t explicitly used in BOS, which might lead to different thinking paths.
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Rotate picture…. Rotate the problem to see it from different perspectives. Again, Rotate isn’t explicitly mentioned in BOS, which might trigger new approaches and ideas
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Reflect picture…. Reflect your problem and see things from the other side of the river. Reflect adds to the possibilities of applying BOS Strategy
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Reshape picture…. Reshape your problem and change your perspective of the problem. Reshape isn’t used explicitly in BOS, which might lead to the generation of new ideas
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Border picture…. Put your problem within defined borders.Defining problems results in framing their solutions
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Shade picture…. Shade your problem. Eliminate or reduce certain attributes of your product or service.The use of Shade would lead to new thinking and problem-solving approaches
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Blur picture… What attributes to blur? For example, to reduce or eliminate their advertising? The use of Blur instead of Reduce might lead to different thinking lines.
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Annotate picture… Annotate your product or service creatively to draw attention to them
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Highlight picture… What attributes to highlight and increase their exposure? Highlight may add to our thinking in producing improved BOS ideas
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Erase picture…. What parts of product or service to Eliminate or Erase.Erase is comprehensive as it opens new windows of thinking BOS. Erase not only from the market, but also from customers’ memory as well.
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Stepwise annotation of picture…What attributes to Increase, Reduce, Create or Eliminate gradually?
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Cut pictureWhat attributes to cut or Reduce of your product or service? Cut may open the mind to new possibilities