Blue Ocean Château
Value Innovation & Engaging Non-Customers
Blue Ocean Château
Value Innovation & Engaging Non-Customers
Description
This immersive VR experience takes learners on a journey to Fontainebleau, France, home to one of the country’s most significant heritage sites—the Château de Fontainebleau. A place where history, art, and architecture converge. The château offers visitors a rich and intimate experience of French heritage.
Yet, beneath its grandeur lie critical strategic challenges. The château’s management would like to rethink their business model, redefine their target audience, and reimagine services in an evolving tourism landscape.
This learning journey applies the Blue Ocean Strategy - Value Innovation perspective to answer the following question:
Who are the non-customers of the organization, and how can management develop a strategy to attract them?
Learners adopt the role of strategic agents tasked with developing an innovative strategy to attract new customers and ensure long-term relevance and growth.

Learning objectives
- Differentiate Red Ocean vs. Blue Ocean strategies—competing in saturated markets versus creating new demand.
- Identify and categorize non-customers using the Three Tiers of Noncustomers framework.
- Analyze pain points through the Buyer Utility Map and Buyer Experience Cycle as two fundamental tools in the Blue Ocean toolbox
- Propose bold, creative value innovations by tapping into latent demand.
Unique Features
- Exploratory investigation learning - Individual & group work synergies
- Gamification & high engagement
- Site visit to remote location
- Perspective taking and anthropological experiences
60-120
Experience segments - 2

