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A valuable tool to analyse business strategies
South China Morning Post Interview: Game theory is about understanding human behaviour. Individuals, including employees and managers, are curious by nature; they like to observe people in action, as well as to play games and win. And while business leaders are making decisions every day, they are also players in a game which requires them…
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New Decoding Strategy Book
Link to book on publisher’s website In his new book, Decoding Strategy, Patrick introduces the T/3 framework as a template for discovering patterns in company data and intelligence. With an emphasis on player type, game technology and time, the T/3 framework supports a narrative on rival interaction and observation. He argues that patterns do exist…
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Patterns & Predictions – Playing to win v playing not to lose.
Patterns & Predictions – Playing to win v playing not to lose. Talk2013Patternsv01Asia.ppt
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Drifting into a debt-recession trap
The despondency that has attached itself to the financial crisis is ‘taking shadows from the reality of things’. Dante would not approve. Europe is drifting into a prolonged recession as policy-makers worry about inflationary expectations and competitive devaluations. Households hope to be delivered from this agonizing crisis. Are there solutions? The following is a grand…
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Fiscal cliff and Kantian equilibrium
The fiscal cliff is the Nash Equilibrium [NE]..it is the best the Democrats can do given the reaction of the Republicans; they will debate big ticket items on spending asnd taxes but both know that neitherparty wants to go there – but it will happen if there is no compromise, according to game theory. The…
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Spin-0 for Apple in a French defence: from iPod to iNext or acquire a telco?
In our previous Blog entries, on the smartphone and tablet market, we referred to the market as a game, G. In G a new phenomenon has occurred, created by a convergence of technology coupled with rational consumers asking: is the iPhone5 = a mini iPad or is the new iPad mini = iPhone6? This line…
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i-Lag or Byte of the Apple
The smartphone has evolved from new gadget to just another gadget – it has become commoditized. The Razr i will indeed allow you to switch quickly between the web, play games, send texts and take photos. Will iOS 6 disappoint as consumers realize that it begins to slow down your iPad2 and is backward incompatible…
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Economic Damage & Spoiled Markets
Markets are spoiled when policymakers place greater worth on the value of a penny saved than on a pound spent on doing something. Consumers prefer to save instead of spend, as each fears to spoil the chance of getting a better price later. With a declining demand at a time of positive technology expectations, economic…
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Greek crisis is a sub-game
Europe is in the long game of a United States of Europe and the Greek crisis is one sub-game in the time continuum, but the sub-game to watch in order to define a Nash Equilibrium is a Euro currency crisis…such a crisis has not happended although the Euro at May 2012 is devaluing against Sterling and US dollar. I had…
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Simon en-cycling to SMIN!
In less than 10 years the smartphone game has eclipsed its humble beginnings of combining a PDA with a phone. The App-ing Generation T who communicate and share across technologies can have an ice cream sandwich in their operating system or a mountain lion or faster graphics performance with ivy. Poorer consumers across the developing…