See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303934593 ABCD Analysis of Red Ocean Strategy Conference Paper · May 2016 CITATIONS READS 0 4,303 1 author: Sreeramana Aithal Srinivas University 669 PUBLICATIONS 4,774 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Organizational Sustainability View project Private University View project All content following this page was uploaded by Sreeramana Aithal on 13 June 2016. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Managema 2016‐ National Conference on Changing Perspectives 2016 PAPER 20 ABCD Analysis of Red Ocean Strategy P. S. Aithal Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Pandeshwar, Mangalore - 575 001, INDIA E-mail : psaithal@gmail.com ABSTRACT Red ocean strategy developed by Prof. Michel Porter supports to compete in existing market space, beat the competition, exploit existing demand, make the value/cost trade-off, align the whole system of a company's activities with its strategic choice of differentiation or low cost. By using recently developed business model analysis framework by our group called ABCD analysis framework, in this paper, we have analysed the red ocean strategy which is also called competitive strategy. Based on four constructs Advantages, Benefits, Constraints and Disadvantages, of this system consider all determinant issues in key areas through analyzing the constructs ABCD of these issues and identifying the critical constituent elements. The result supported the logic of using ABCD analyzing technique in any System performance evaluation. Keywords : ABCD analysis framework, Red ocean strategy, Factors affecting red ocean strategy, Determinant issues of red ocean strategy, Critical constituent elements of red ocean strategy. Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangalore View publication stats Page 1