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A PRESENTATION ON GAME THEORY

Presented By,
Aditya Kumar (17002)
WHAT IS A GAME THEORY?

Game theory is the study of how people behave in strategic situations.


Strategic decisions are those in which each person, in deciding what actions to
take, must consider how others might respond to that action.
What is a Game
A game is a situation where the participants’ payoffs depend not only on their
decisions, but also on their rivals’ decisions.
This is called Strategic Interactions:
My optimal decisions will depend on what others do in the game.
A GAME

Four elements to describe a game:


players;
rules: when each player moves, what are the possible moves,
what is known to each player before moving;
outcomes of the moves;
payoffs of each possible outcome: how much money each player
receive for any specific outcome.
COCA- COLA’S AND PEPSI ADVERTISING BUDGET: THE
PRISONERS’ DILEMMA

Small advertising Big advertising


Budget budget In each
cell the
Small advertising lower-
left
Budget 10 15 number
is the
PEPSI payoff to
10 -2 pepsi; the
upper
Big advertising right the
budget -2 4 payoff to
coke

15 4
IS GAME THEORY USEFUL?
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

Competitor Analysis : - Identifying the competitors and evaluating their strategies


to determine their strengths and weaknesses relating to those of their own product or
service .
Steps in Analyzing competitor
Identifying Assessing Selecting
.

.
competitors
the objective, which
company’s strategies, competitors
strengths and
competitor to attack or
weaknesses and
reaction avoid
patterns.
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
• Competitive Intelligence :- Competitive intelligence involves the systematic
collection and analysis of information about rivals for informing decision making.
Competitive Intelligence has three main purpose

To determine how
To forecast To predict
competitors’
competitors’ future competitors’ likely
behavior can be
strategies and reactions to a firm’s
influenced to make
decisions. strategic initiatives
it more favorable.


COMPETITOR ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE

• A Framework for predicting competitor behavior :- Competitive


intelligence is not simply about collecting information. The problem is likely to be
too much rather than too little information. The key is the systematic approach that
makes it clear what information is required and for what purpose it will be used.
Michael porter proposes a four part framework for predicting competitor behavior

Competitor’s current strategy

Competitor’s Objective

Competitor’s assumption about the industry

• Competitor’s resources and capabilities


COMPETITOR ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
A framework for competitor analysis
STRATEGY
How is the firm competing?
• OBJECTIVE
PREDICTIONS
• What are competitor’s current goals?
• Is performance meeting these goals? What strategy changes will
the competitor initiate?
• How are its goal likely to change?
ASSUMPTIONS How will the competitor
respond to our strategic
What assumptions does the competitor hold about the industry and initiatives?
itself?

• RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES


• What are the competitor’s key strengths and weaknesses?

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