Question

The author reflects on the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy. He explains that this concept delivers an instinctive framework for developing uncontested market space and making competition irrelevant. The author remarks that Blue Ocean Strategy is about having the best mix of attributes that results in the creation of uncontested market space and high growth, and not about being the best.

The above paragraph appears to be an attempt at

• A. defining Blue Ocean Strategy.
• B. developing the framework for Blue Ocean Strategy.
• C. reviewing an article or a book on Blue Ocean Strategy.
• D. highlighting how Blue Ocean Strategy leads to better returns.

Hint:

Notice how many times the paragraph says 'the author'; that tells you whose work is being reported on, not created.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Step 1: Read the paragraph for who is speaking and about what.
The paragraph opens with 'The author reflects on the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy' and later says 'The author remarks that...'. These are third-person references to someone else's writing, not the passage's own original explanation of the strategy. That distinction decides the answer.

Step 2: Separate what the paragraph does from what it merely reports.
The paragraph is not itself defining Blue Ocean Strategy from scratch, it is telling us what 'the author' (some other writer) said about it. So it is a step removed from the strategy itself, it is commentary on someone else's explanation of the strategy.

Step 3: Test each option against this reading.
Option 1, defining Blue Ocean Strategy, would be true only if the paragraph itself laid out the definition directly, but here the definition is attributed to 'the author', so the paragraph is reporting a definition, not giving one on its own authority.
Option 2, developing the framework, would need the paragraph to build out or extend the strategy's framework; instead it just summarizes what another author already said the framework does.
Option 4, highlighting how the strategy leads to better returns, does not fit either, since 'uncontested market space' and 'high growth' are mentioned only as part of describing the author's view, not as the paragraph's own argument for returns.
Option 3, reviewing an article or a book on Blue Ocean Strategy, fits best: repeatedly citing 'the author' and his explanations and remarks is exactly what a review does, it reports and reacts to someone else's written work.

Step 4: Final Answer.
Because the paragraph consistently frames its content as what 'the author' says, rather than presenting the idea in its own voice, it reads as a review of an article or book on Blue Ocean Strategy. \[ \boxed{\text{Option 3}} \]