Questions About Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

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What is the main theme of the book? And is there a common theme with Porter's 5 competitive forces that shape strategy? Thank you!

Mihai Rosca Since you are talking business models, yes, there is a connection.

But you can look at things like this: business is a limited environment with limite…moreSince you are talking business models, yes, there is a connection.

But you can look at things like this: business is a limited environment with limited factors acting upon it. They may be many of them, but still limited. If one business author treats in depth a bunch of them, another author will come and treat some other aspects and analyse another bunch. Along the way, some factors may overlap.

Taking this into account, the book treats the topic of getting out of your sector of activity and into a new one where some of Porter's five forces like existing competitors, new players and substitutes do not exist. Are these theories the same? No, but they work within the same space - the business environment.(less)

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Is this book a LARP?

Mihai Rosca If the below descriptions is what you mean, then you are not even in the ballpark. This is a business strategy book, more real and less fiction. But i…moreIf the below descriptions is what you mean, then you are not even in the ballpark. This is a business strategy book, more real and less fiction. But if you consider life itself to be an RPG...it might be! :)

Larping (or LARPing) is short for "Live Action Role-Playing". A live action role-playing game is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically act out their characters' actions. The players pursue their characters' goals within a fictional setting represented by the real world, while interacting with one another in character. The outcome of player actions may be mediated by game rules, or determined by consensus between players. (less)

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