Stop fighting for share in a bloody red ocean. Create a blue one where the competition is irrelevant because it doesn't exist yet.
About the book
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argue that the biggest strategic wins don't come from beating competitors at the same game, but from breaking the assumed trade-off between differentiation and low cost to create genuinely new market space. The Four Actions Framework and Six Paths give a concrete method for it — eliminate and reduce factors the industry takes for granted while raising and creating new ones — mapped onto a strategy canvas that should look nothing like your competitors' curve. It's a framework for finding non-customers, not fighting harder for the customers everyone else is already chasing.
Best used for
—Mapping a strategy canvas to see how divergent your offering actually is from competitors
—Running the Four Actions Framework to find what to eliminate, reduce, raise, and create
—Identifying non-customers a crowded market is currently ignoring entirely
“This is an especially thought-provoking book that, as have so many others, evolved from an article published in the Harvard Business Review.”
— Robert, Goodreads
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