Blue Ocean Shift cover art

Blue Ocean Shift

Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Blue Ocean Shift

By: Renee Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
Narrated by: Christian Steiner
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £11.99

Buy Now for £11.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

The New York Times bestseller.
#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Blue Ocean Shift
is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth.

Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process.

With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.

Business Development Business Development & Entrepreneurship Leadership Management Management & Leadership New Business Enterprises Marketing Business Customer Service Inspiring Success

Listeners also enjoyed...

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition cover art
Your Next Five Moves cover art
$100M Leads cover art
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy cover art
The Innovative Sale cover art
Key Person of Influence cover art
$100M Offers cover art
Outliers cover art
MONEY Master the Game cover art
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime cover art
Playing to Win cover art
Entrepreneur: Warren Buffett cover art
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2 cover art
The Lean Startup cover art
Driving Innovation from Within cover art
The Change Maker's Playbook cover art

Critic reviews

Kim and Mauborgne have followed one blockbuster book with another. BLUE OCEAN SHIFT takes the groundbreaking principles of their original work and offers a smart, systematic plan to help any organization move from competing in existing markets to creating new markets altogether. You needn't be an entrepreneur or techie to take advantages of these insights. You just have to be willing to challenge the assumptions of your industry, ask fresh questions, and - get this - embrace your humanness? (Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human)
The challenge of any business is to grow in markets that are crowded and competitive, and to do it in a way that is intelligent, effective, and humane. In BLUE OCEAN SHIFT, you will find all of that and more as Kim and Mauborgne guide you on a journey that will open your eyes to the untapped growth opportunities in your business, whether you are a startup, small business, or Fortune 500 company. (Ram Charan, CEO and board advisor, New York Times bestselling author of Execution)
BLUE OCEAN SHIFT is great: Practical, useful, real-world. (Inc.)
An exciting new book that synthesizes their experience in assisting with the implementation of Blue Ocean strategy....BLUE OCEAN SHIFT provides us with a comprehensive guide to enable any organization with the right mindset to launch and implement a Blue Ocean initiative. (Forbes)
A] stirring business primer...[BLUE OCEAN SHIFT] includes powerful real-life examples....This invaluable guide will be empowering to business-minded readers. (Publishers Weekly)
Starred Review: While [Blue Ocean Strategy] helped to identify new avenues for strategic success, it fell short on providing the actual steps needed to jump from a crowded marketplace into the fabled blue ocean of the title. [BLUE OCEAN SHIFT], however, provides a clear process for business identifying opportunities and developing plans for change...This tide provides a course of action for readers of the authors' previous books and should find a large readership among all organizational levels. Highly recommended. (Library Journal)
BLUE OCEAN SHIFT proves to be worth the wait. It is a practical, well-written guide to finding and exploiting blue ocean markets, informed by the experiences of companies and other organizations that have chosen to seek them out rather than compete toe-to-toe in established markets. (Strategy + Business)
All stars
Most relevant
very welleritten, read, will help us grow our organisation
we will use all the learnings

blue ocean comming soon

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I'd recommend this book in its printed form to organisations looking to, in old terminology, think outside the box and look for new ways to prosper. There are a lot of steps, exercises and references out to secondary material that needs physical study over listening.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

I found the narrators speed a little slow.

Any additional comments?

If you're following the book, it mentions a bonus PDF which you would need to contact the publisher for as it's not included in the download. I'd still recommend a physical/digital copy over the audio.

It's really a Business Workbook

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Blue Ocean Shift is basically a shift in, not so much in business process or activity, but rather persoective in how employees and customers are involved in business/strategic planning.

That said, the authors offer some practical frameworks including templates in which to put into practice these, not so new, thoughts on how engaged employees and customers should be in the change process.

You'll note that I stated 'not so new', this is because the theory of engagement of both employees and customers throught business activities is well known and has been shown to provide many benefits. What the authors have done in this book is to develop their own perspectives and represent them formally in some usefull templates and theory.

Overall, this book offers the reader another way in which to address change, and while the information may not be cutting edge it does provoke thoughts on how to work more productively through the empowerment of employees and perspectives of customers...which is never a bad thing.

The book performed very well, great narration and the structure is well laid out, I am, however, a little dissapointed by the templates since they open with Kindle via the authors website making them less usefull than say opening as a word document.

A Sensible Shift to People Engagement

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I have a renewed drive to pursue my dreams knowing that I am fully equipped as a Blue Ocean Strategist. I feel the sky in the limit to my Entrepreneurial exploits. Wow, what a book!

Empowerment and Liberation

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Good book, good subject.
Could have been structured a bit different in my opinion to increase readability / easy listening. Not very engaging audio (monotone)
A bit to many references to their own website and other resources which could have been handled differently.
All in all a decent listen, not terrible, not Great.

Informative but repetative

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews