Who Owns our Personal Data? Personal information and data stored in the cloud have an inherent high ‘tradable’ value – they facilitate the discovery of patterns.  We trust the providers and processors and distributors of the data, they retrieve our personal data and they can and do use it. Our data is now a tradable […]

MEMO Re: Apple Inc: Play not to lose: Minimax strategy Dear Ms Ahrendts Congratulations on your recent appointment. We have been commenting on Apple for a number of years in this Blog, and from the perspective of game theory. You should challenge everything about the data – market share figures, consumer loyalty and the source […]

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 […]

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 […]

Patterns & Predictions – Playing to win v playing not to lose. Talk2013Patternsv01Asia.ppt