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Are Blue Ocean Strategies Prescriptive or Descriptive?
Edward Tufte Redesigns the Sentence
Edward Tufte has redesigned the sentence. He did it in his new book, Seeing with Fresh Eyes, which was published last week. Here’s my hot-take review.
50,000 Data Chiefs
The Panera Pandemic Pivot
Too Many Fields of Dreams
The Panera Bread Blue Ocean
A critical question about Blue Ocean Strategy is whether its ideas are prescriptive or merely descriptive. That is, is there a recipe to find, define, and attack an uncontested market space? Or are they only visible after they appear, like a field of dreams? Au Bon Pain’s metamorphosis into Panera Bread shows how one blue ocean was built.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy is one of the best-selling business strategy books of all time, but it is often misunderstood. Panera Bread is a great example of how to discover and execute a blue ocean strategy:
Presence and Pioneers
Failure Builds Growth, Mastery and Trust
Fix It
Be Micro-Ambitious
Entrepreneurial Tribes
Decisive Moments
Keep Trying the Next Wave
Fight Through Barriers
Dive In
Panera Bread Body Surfing
Panera Bread’s story is pure entrepreneurial inspiration. On NPR’s How I Built This, Ron Shaich, founder and CEO, compared building Panera to body surfing waves in the ocean. I loved that metaphor, and, 10 days, I’m going to share each element of his story, wrapped in the body surfing metaphor and images from some of the world’s best surfing photographers to illuminate each idea.
IoT Market Myopia
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Analytics
RBG taught us many things. But did she have anything to say about analytics and digital transformation? I think so!