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Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
The metaphor of red and blue oceans describes the market universe. Red oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of [...]
SMART Acronym Goal Setting
When Alice was lost in Wonderland she came to a fork in the road. At the fork was a tree and in the tree the Cheshire Cat. Alice asked the cat, which way she should turn. The cat asked “Where do you want to go?” Alice responded: “I don’t know.” The cat responded “Then any [...]
Competitive Advantage Examples
Competitive advantages are a very important factor in today’s economy. Global market is so filled with so many different companies that you need something that will put you in front of other companies. We have to make sure we have something to offer to our customers that our competition does not. There are many sorts [...]
Management Consulting
Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.
Organizations hire the services of management consultants for a number of reasons, including gaining external (and presumably objective) advice, access to the consultants’ specialized expertise, [...]
Strategic Management
Strategic management is the art, science and craft of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives. It is the process of specifying the organization’s mission, vision and objectives, developing policies and plans, often in terms of projects and programs, which are designed to achieve these objectives, [...]