The Future, Present

The BOS process gave us totally new perspectives and insights. Apart from that, we were intrigued with the case examples shared by the BOS team which got us thinking and stimulated some great ideas in line with our business philosophy. The output of the BOS process was well received by our Headquarters in Europe during our last Global Summit.

The BOS process gave us totally new perspectives and insights. Apart from that, we were intrigued with the case examples shared by the BOS team which got us thinking and stimulated some great ideas in line with our business philosophy. The output of the BOS process was well received by our Headquarters in Europe during our last Global Summit.

I am very impressed with the initiatives developed by the team and very remarkable effort in transforming the Faculty of Business and Management into ASEAN College of Business through Blue Ocean Strategy. This is a big turning point and with the new direction we will be at the competitive edge and forefront in the Education Industry.

UCSI Consulting Group excellently guided us in our Innovation Journey for over 3 years. We have worked together in different aspects of our business, from enhancing SOPs, to supporting devising the master plan for a flagship development. As we move forward in our journey to be a catalyst of change, transforming Iskandar Malaysia into a strong, sustainable conurbation of international standing, we are confident that we are empowered with the proper tools, knowledge and insight of Blue Ocean Strategy to make our goals a reality. Thanks to UCSI Consulting Group.

Recently, we held our first ever Board and Management Offsite Meeting to chart our growth and development plans moving forward, using the tools of “Blue Ocean Strategy”. The Blue Ocean Strategy that we have charted for Integrax consists of plans to expand our port facilities and integrate our operations along the value chains of the many raw materials which flow through our ports. We are at the tip of Blue Oceans, ready to set sail into a vast sea of “Value Innovation…”.

We have attended previous workshops and had consultants coming in but it was all too complex and did not help us. We have been trying to create breakthrough ideas, products and opportunities with little success. With the tools we have learnt from BOS, it is practical, simple and a lot of it is common sense. The concept of looking to noncustomers is a great example on how we translate this tool quickly to our business.

The concepts of Blue Ocean Strategy provided useful analytical frameworks and tools for strategic planning especially in the context of a regional organisation such as SEACEN. We were able to utilise some of the BOS tools in our Strategic Business Planning exercise, creating added value to our stakeholders.

Despite the short time period and Business as usual demands, the BOS team helped to develop innovative ideas and also generate new creative concepts to grow in saturated markets. Our team has also gained a deeper understanding of the line of business and discovered the importance of “Voice” of customers and distributors during the interviews they conducted. This seems to be one the most significant added values of the BOS process. It gave us alternative points of view and other insights.

The BOS team has been able to take our business challenge and provide high level professional expertise in develop our plan encompassing multiple initiatives using the Blue Ocean Strategy framework and tools.

As a result of the engagement, Nitritex's revenue increased by double-digits in a little over a year. On top of that, the knowledge transfer from the engagement has also been invaluable. This helps us to continuously recreate our own Blue Oceans.

The most valuable gain from the BOS workshop was the willingness of the team to push the boundaries within such a regulated industry. I personally think the tools used were a powerful resource to systematically guide the team in exploring uncharted territories and come out with exciting innovative initiatives.

A big thank you to BOS Team for being truly customer focus in providing value added support, and really ploughed in extra effort to ensure the workshop was a success.

Guardian Malaysia embarked on a Blue Ocean journey with UCSI Consulting Group in 2013. The team introduced the BOS systematic approach to Guardian’s Senior Management team and apply the BOS tools on Guardian’s overall business in order to define high level BOS ideas.

This project helped us to break the silos between different departments by having cross departmental teams and tackle execution hurdles in a systematic way; improving productivity and communication inter and intra departments.

BOS team has done a good job in strategizing and coaching the growth team to generate game changing ideas and plans to execute them.

We have had the thought that BOS are meant for big companies and it’s going to be very costly to find and conquer Blue Ocean Market for small company like us. The BOS team are great guys armed with great tools that help us find our Blue Ocean methodologically.

It has completely changed my perspective of how to build and run a successful business. It’s literally a “Visual Awakening” to me as the title of the first module of this session suggests. BOS coaching session allowed us to redefine and rethink our business in a different perspective, sharpening our business skill as a foundation of the business. This session has also inspired us to think outside the box and to use effective, proven methods to innovate and differentiate ourselves from our competitors or rather create a brand new ‘blue ocean’ category.

The BOS coaching sessions made us identify areas of the business which we were clearly neglecting before and repositioned our business priorities effectively.

Raj Kumar’s foundation knowledge of and articulation in Blue Ocean Strategy and the processes are without doubt impressive. His visible trait would definitely be his friendly disposition.

Buyer experience cycle (one of the tools used in BOS) was another great insight for us to be customer centric, seeing the whole business idea from the customers’ perspective. Just by merely identifying the pain points, it did make us realize we can actually innovate and fine tune the processes in the customer’s experience cycle and makes a lot of difference. In fact, it is interesting for us to think how to improve and twist the pain point into some positive experience.

The BOS processes allow us to increase buyer value and reduce cost through the principle of value innovation and implementing them in the right strategic sequence. To distinguish our product from the offerings of competitors in order to make it more attractive to the target market, the conventional wisdom is that some of the businesses need to spend a lot of money to make the product unique. In BOS, however, if the value-cost trade-off is not broken down, competitors can easily duplicate our strategy and we will end up being in the red ocean again. To do this, we need to be bold enough to strip away or reduce any unnecessary costs that do not add value.

Raj is a passionate, knowledgeable, and engaging public speaker on Blue Ocean Strategy. Raj was a plenary speaker at the 2014 Diversity & Inclusion in Asia Conference in Hong Kong attended by over 300 individuals. At the Conference he helped to articulate the link between D&I and competitive advantage in a similar vein to the BOS approach. It was also a pleasure to moderate a insightful Q&A following his presentation. Afterwards many attendees approached Community Business with their positive feedback on Raj's plenary insightful presentation. I highly recommend Raj for his speaking ability and in-depth knowledge of the BOS.

Both Blue Ocean Strategy sessions organized by Octara in Lahore and Karachi received excellent feedback from all the participants from the leading organizations of Pakistan. BOS content, your presentation, knowledge on the subject and  overall facilitation capability were consistently of a high quality and best of all engaging. Importantly, each session provided an excellent review of the challenges and learning opportunities inherent in each simulation exercise, while challenging the participants to clarify and determine their own answers and finally to present professionally as a group reflecting a strong understanding about each framework. We feel that all the techniques used, the methods, the videos and slides were extremely engaging.It was great to have experienced the UCSI team delivering a high concept programme with so much energy. Thanks a lot! Blue Oceans Ahoy!

The BOS methodology gave us a new perspective. The tools introduced in the workshop are easy to understand. I could apply BOS and its tools together with my team members right away after the workshop.

The ability to conceptualize and visualize Blue Ocean Strategy into just a few graphical charts is amazing.

Raj made us think and took our strategies out from red ocean to the blue ocean.

BOS tools and Framework are excellent tools for planning purposes.

Excellent Experience. We can implement the learning in our day to day activities to create more blue oceans.

Not only thinking outside the box, but we are encouraged to think there’s no box. Sometimes what is impossible can be restructured to create new possibilities.

This was great learning experience as we are also in a phase where we want to expand.

BOS coaching spawned a lot of new ideas, and now we began to clearly see how we could devise our Blue Ocean Strategies for HighrisePro. By the time the session was coming to a close, we had a clear direction on the ideas and strategies that we wanted to implement to take HighrisePro to the next level!

I engaged the BOS Team to be a sounding board for my business. They were extremely helpful in providing useful information and strategic advice. They provided valuable research documents which helped us in our business. They also opened the door to some banks which helped us in our operations.

The reform agenda of USM under the APEX framework constitutes a radical revision of what education should be in the present day and provides encouragement to tertiary institutions confronting the challenging issue of being a world class university. Such a transformation entails engaging with and articulating how USM can truly transform itself and succeed in a global context that is competitive and often unequal. This is a testimony that the Blue Ocean Strategy can be effectively adopted in an institution of higher learning.

BOS is very informative, thought awakening & strategic approach, which would help to penetrate and/or create new markets to achieve better performance.

BOS tools are very strong tools for strategic business planning.

I think everybody should know & practice BOS – a game changer.

Friendly, knowledgeable and skilful facilitation that helps you dissect and understand BOS better.

The best part of Blue Ocean Strategy is that it gives in-depth knowledge of how to break away from the traditional way of doing business; do something which is changing the landscape of the business.