blue ocean strategyImplementationHere you will find a range of next generation teaching materials relevant to blue ocean strategy formulation. We recommend reading the Implementation Teaching Module to get started. Please note that access to most of these materials is restricted to professors only.
 The case entitled, ‘Making a Blue Ocean Strategic Move that Discourages Imitation’ illustrates how the alignment of value, profit and people propositions around both differentiation and low cost makes a blue ocean strategic move very difficult to imitate. Using the strategic move of Wikipedia, this case examines the three strategy propositions for the online encyclopedia industry and how key factors from one proposition can support and reinforce the other two propositions. 
Interactive Exercise How to Implement Blue Ocean Strategy challenges participants to apply key concepts of blue ocean strategy implementation to overcome key organizational and management hurdles while leading a strategic shift. The case, which comes with an interactive, fun flash game to be played in class, lays out how Braynesbridge Industries, a fictional conglomerate in the steel industry, recently launched a new strategy to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition in the industry and the organizational challenges it had to overcome.
Scenario Case Scenario Case: Tipping Point Leadership and Fair Process in Action Case. This 90-minute exercise presents five scenarios from different industries to illustrate the organizational and management risks faced when implementing a blue ocean strategy. Sectors include health insurance, manufacturing, government, banking and politics. Includes an answer template for breakout discussions.
Tipping Point Simulation Leading the City of Los Rios into a Blue Ocean is a challenging hands-on case and class-based simulation exercise, which drives participants to execute a strategic shift fast and at low cost using the key concept of tipping point leadership. Situated in the fictitious city of Los Rios in Central America, the newly elected mayor has just announced a new strategy for Los Rios that would bring new life to the city and let it stand apart again. The students are challenged to make this happen in the simulation.
Development Tool Self-Diagnostic Development Tool: Tipping Point Leadership and Fair Process in Action Workbook. This 30-minute diagnostic leads a participant to reflect on the organizational and management risks that exist in his/her organization as they set out to execute a blue ocean strategy. This tool provides a template for participants to put tipping point leadership and fair process to work in executing their strategy.
Implementation Teaching Module This teaching module outlines how to build a half-day program on blue ocean strategy implementation with the supporting teaching materials noted below. The teaching module can be broken down as well into two robust MBA or executive class sessions. The module uses lectures and innovative teaching materials noted below that come with comprehensive teaching notes.
Supporting Materials Lecture Slides on Tipping Point Leadership and Fair Process in Action
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