MENTAL MODEL · M3665

Value Innovation

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Value innovation, the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy from Kim and Mauborgne, rejects the conventional trade-off between differentiation and low cost. By eliminating and reducing factors the industry over-serves while raising and creating factors buyers actually value, a firm reconstructs its own value curve and opens entirely uncontested market space.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

- Trade-off breaking: test whether cutting cost and raising buyer value can happen together. - Factor audit: sort industry factors into eliminate, reduce, raise, and create. - Offer redesign: rebuild the value curve around the resulting choices instead of copying rivals.

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Anchor fast decisions

Buyer value and cost are treated as separable rather than opposed. Removing factors the industry competes on but customers barely notice lowers cost, while adding factors customers genuinely want raises value, so the value curve diverges from rivals instead of running parallel to them.

MINIMUM ACTION

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Practice this model in one real situation:

Draw the four-actions grid: eliminate, reduce, raise, create. 2. List the assumptions your industry treats as fixed and challenge each one. 3. Find the levers that lower cost and raise value simultaneously. 4. Redesign the offering around those levers and plot the new value curve.

Check to track your progress (stored locally)

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