A decade after the publication of the first edition of the Blue Ocean Strategy (summary = get your Value Proposition right!),we have Red Ocean traps. • Two traps from assumptions about marketing, in particular customer orientation and niches; • The next two from economic lessons on technology innovation and creative destruction; • and the final two from principles of competitive strategy that regard differentiation and low cost as mutually exclusive choices. Join one of our workshops where we go deeper into the Red Ocean Traps, how to avoid them and build a competitive strategic plan office@alinea-partners.com