MBA Class, Fall 2023/2024 - Graduate School of Business
Professor: Prof. Dr. Riham Adel
Value Innovation:
The Strategic Logic of High Growth
Kim and Mauborgne advance the notion of a blue ocean strategy
which is a business-level strategy that successfully combines
differentiation and cost-leadership activities using value
innovation to reconcile the inherent trade-offs in those two distinct
strategic positions
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blue ocean strategy
Business-level strategy
that successfully
combines differentiation
and cost-leadership
activities using value
innovation to reconcile
the inherent trade-offs.
value innovation
The simultaneous
pursuit of differentiation
and low cost in a
way that creates
a leap in value for
both the firm and the
consumers; considered
a cornerstone of blue
ocean strategy.
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In a nutshell, Blue Ocean Strategy articulated a view of the market universe as composed of
two types of oceans -
and Blue oceans are all the industries yet to be created, where
profit and growth increasingly come from.
New market creation The best way to drive profitable growth?
Stop competing in overcrowded industries.
In those red oceans, companies try to out-
perform rivals to grab bigger slices of exist-
ing demand. As the space gets increasingly
crowded, profit and growth prospects
shrink. Products become commoditized.
Ever-more-intense competition turns the
Create new demand water bloody.
Make competition irrevevant
Disprove the value/cost
trade-off
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The Five Generic Competitive Strategies
Market Coverage
Presence in a Broad
Range of Market
Segments
Presence in a
Limited Number of
Market Segments
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Low-Cost
Provider
Strategy
Broad
Differentiation
Strategy
Best-Cost
Provider Strategy
Focused
Low-Cost
Strategy
Focused
Differentiation
Strategy
Value Creation Keyed
to Lower Cost
Value Creation Keyed to
Differentiating Features
Type of Competitive Advantage Pursued
A company's competitive strategy should be well
matched to its internal situation and predicated on
leveraging its collection of competitively valuable
resources and competencies.
CORE CONCEPT
A competitive strategy concerns the specifics of
management's game plan for competing success-
fully and securing a competitive advantage over
rivals in the marketplace.
CORE CONCEPT
Best-cost provider strategies are a hybrid of
low-cost provider and differentiation strategies that
aim at satisfying buyer expectations on key quality/
features/performance/service attributes and beat-
ing customer expectations on price.
Companies pursuing best-cost strategies
target value conscious buyers looking
for a good-to-very-good product or
service at an omical price. The
essence of a best provider strategy
s giving customers more value for the
money by satisfying buyer desires and
charging a lower price for these
attributes compared to rivals with
similar caliber product offering:
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Portfolio Strategy
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BCG Matrix - strategies for managing a product portfolio
Portfolio Level Analysis
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compared to competitors and brands and should be “milked” to low market share in fast growing markets and maintain high market share. Stars are
‘operate in a slowly growing market. provide as much cash as possible. consuming large amount of cash. both cash generators and cash users.
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10W Typology
When an organization falls into the category
Prospector Defender
of Prospector, they are expected to
consistently be on the forefront of
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innovation and development. MB
The advantages of the prospector strategy ar
» Expansion in market share due to first mover advantage in the new market
* Increased opportunities, higher sales and hence more profits and margins
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Prospector are innovators &
Organizations with a Strategy developers
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1 Snow Typology
Defenders they don’t invest time and Feten Defender
money into trying to develop new
products. They are satisfied with their Miles & Sno’
current place in the market and defend it.
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often are in a mature
market where less chance
to innovate, so seek profits
or revenue
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Snow Typolo;
Analyzers are blend of the first two
options. They have the capacity to
develop new products as well as defend M
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Prospector
are large corporations, often
market leaders that build on
others innovations & develop
new products
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Organizations
with an
Analyzer
Strategy
Reactors have no one specific approach
to their business, as this means that they
are simply trying to catch up with the —— rate
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market as things change over time. By
taking a reactive approach, organization
end up losing market share by time
Prospector Defender
have no specific approach
just react to market
changes
Organizations Reactor
witha Strategy
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Firms develop relatively patterns of strategic behavior in order to accomplish a good alignment with
perceived environmental conditions. Four unique strategies are used