Quotes About Differentiation

the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. Value innovation, not innovation per se

Attempts to imitate a blue ocean creator conflict with the imitator's existing brand image.

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

Blue ocean strategy does not see competition as bad. However, unlike traditional economic thought, it does not see competition as always good.

They reveal that for major product and service categories, brands are generally becoming more similar, and as they are becoming more similar, people increasingly select based on price.

to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

When exceptional utility is combined with strategic pricing, imitation is discouraged.

Organizations that pursue differentiation to stand apart from competitors tend to focus on what to offer more of. Those that pursue cost leadership tend to focus on what to offer less of. While both of these are viable strategic options, which a great many organizations currently pursue, both will keep you stuck in the red ocean, operating on your industry's existing productivity frontier.

By focusing on the key factors that lead buyers to trade across alternative industries and eliminating or reducing everything else, you can create a blue ocean of new market space.

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant. Instead of dividing up existing—and often shrinking—demand and benchmarking competitors, blue ocean strategy is about growing demand and breaking away from the competition.

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant.

The general environment is the same for every player. What differentiates the successful ones are their insights, perceptions, and abilities to detect patterns of change and relate them to their landscape, industries, competition, and business.

I can't remember the first game but I know you were assigned to different teams, the red team, the yellow team, the blue team, all different colors. There were 26 different colors. Also, if you had a sore arm, you wore a gray cap. If you had a bad leg, you wore white socks. This way, if you're hitting the ball and you didn't hustle, they would know it's because you had a bad leg.

Though hardly a revolutionary insight, the comment set Pigafetta apart from sages such as Pliny and Marco Polo

Now, when Marilyn says this—If she were a white girl—it proves what James has feared all along. That inside, all along, she'd labeled everything. White and not white. That this thing makes all the difference in the world.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Even after California became part of Mexico upon the country's independence from Spain, the region's inhabitants thought of themselves differently from their fellow Mexican citizens—they were gente de razón (people of reason), a term that distinguished them from the Indians or those of mixed blood, frequently called cholos.

The point is that being a minority isn't only about the color of your skin or your religion. it's about not fitting in, being on the outside.

I wouldn't really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it's all a uniform.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.