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A wide variety of organizations (i.e. Marvel, Skype, Zappos, Salesforce, and Wikipedia) have used the Blue Ocean Strategy. This suggests that companies can succeed, not by battling competitors, but by creating ″blue oceans″ of uncontested market space
Discuss.how digital transformation can help capitalize on the Blue Ocean Strategy
The Blue Ocean Strategy involves simultaneous doing of
differentiation and also of low cost to in-effect open up a new
market space. This in turn creates new demand.
The organization which does so captures uncontested market space
thus helping itself with the first mover advantage of a new market
space. This is basically done when there are a lot of competitors
in the same segment. Also the competition is made irrelevant.
Digital transformation can be of help in terms of creating the
demand as well as capturing a wider customer base and ensuring that
no other competitor can get a major share of the new market hence
created. While it is impossible to sustain 100% of the share of new
market as me-too products and new innovations would continue, but
digitization will help in at-least retaining and also expanding to
a larger base of customers in the new market by the new
entrant.
Digitization will also be of help in case of price competitiveness
i.e. if there is a new competitor who launches a similar product in
a particular price point, then digitization will help the space
creator to start a price war if deemed necessary to retain its own
clientele.