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20. Analysis: How Nintendo Created a New Market through the Strategic Innovation Wii

verfasst von : Jörg Ziesak, Thomas Barsch

Erschienen in: Die Blue-Ocean-Strategie in Theorie und Praxis

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

In the year 2009, Nintendo was placed fifth in BusinessWeek’s ranking of the world’s most innovative companies. This confirms Nintendo’s significant transformation into an innovative design powerhouse that redefined the predominant business value factors of the video game industry. However, a few years ago no analyst would have anticipated that Nintendo would develop in this direction.

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Metadaten
Titel
Analysis: How Nintendo Created a New Market through the Strategic Innovation Wii
verfasst von
Jörg Ziesak
Thomas Barsch
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15480-6_20