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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

This book offers a strategic framework for businesses to identify and exploit new market opportunities, emphasizing the concept of 'blue oceans'—untapped market spaces with little or no competition. The expanded edition includes updated insights and case studies. more

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W. Chan Kim
W. Chan Kim

W. Chan Kim is a renowned business strategist and author. Born in 1952, he is known for his contributions to the field of strategic management. Kim, along with Renée Mauborgne, co-developed the concept of 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' which encourages companies to find uncontested market spaces to create new demand. His book, 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' has had a profound impact worldwide. more

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“Heterotopie möchte ich hier als Möglichkeitsraum für Widerstand und Neuentstehung hervorheben, der innerhalb eines Systems geschaffen werden kann. In Heterotopien wird es möglich, von der Auswahl des Kapitals in eine Idiotie zu gelangen und durch den asozialen Eigen-Sinn, die Scheinharmonie der unsichtbaren Machtstrukturen zu verderben.”

“The essence of things is not rationally knowable, and reality cannot be reduced to mechanistic frameworks. When realizing this, we can finally start to look for the essence of life where it truly can be found: in that which always escapes rationalization and mechanization, in that which dissapears from a conversation when you digitalize it, in the difference between the mother's womb and an artificial plastic womb, in the difference between the heat of an electric heater and that of a wood-burning stove, and so on.”

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