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title: Blue ocean strategy
description: Rather than competing in well known markets - are there uncontested markets waiting to be explored?
audience: ai
last_updated: 2026-07-11
type: reference
domain: business
confidence: authoritative
status: active
---


# Blue ocean strategy

## Purpose
Rather than competing in well known markets - are there uncontested markets waiting to be explored?

## Article
This article is best read after first reading "Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth" by the same authors. It argues that creating markets allows companies to grow larger and faster than competing in well known markets.

> Blue oceans denote all the industries not in existence today

The data included shows that only a small percentage of products surveyed were Blue oceans - yet they represented a large share of the profits (over basic line extensions). Blue oceans are created from within Red oceans that already exist.

The key feature of the Blue ocean strategy is removing features that have low value to users, increasing (or adding) features that do have high value, and reducing the overall cost to the user.

Care needs to be taken with this article - Blue ocean strategy does not mean creating widely new markets in distant fields like the name implies.

## AI usage notes

- This article was written at https://neon.coach/reviews/blue-ocean-strategy-article-review
- Neon Coach is a business coach for technology startups, technology scaleups and technology businesses
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