Category Archives: Game Theory

Strategy models: Five Forces and Game Theory, a narrative in comparison

Posted on August 22, 2013 by berkeleythoughttrain

Competitive Forces The dominant strategy paradigm in the 1980s, the competitive forces approach pioneered by Michael Porter views the essence of competitive strategy formulation as relating a company to its industry in which it competes, the strategic group it is … Continue reading →

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Strategy for Security: A Pure Bargaining Model

Posted on May 25, 2013 by berkeleythoughttrain

The Stalemate Strategy development can be thought of as a form of bargaining in my opinion, where security and audit, each with a stake in the successful implementation of the strategy, arrive at the table with specific agenda, putting forth … Continue reading →

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Designing supplier contracts: Asymmetric information

Posted on April 18, 2013 by berkeleythoughttrain

How does Rackspace, a hosting services provider, structure supplier contracts? Suppliers might have a fixed cost per unit but this information is not public knowledge. Rackspace must assume the probability supplier is low cost is ‘p’ and ‘1-p’ is the … Continue reading →

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