Strategy
Play the competitive game
When a rival's move unsettles the market, read the interaction through co-opetition; solve the equilibrium with player analysis and game theory, and change the game in your favor with commitments and price leadership.
Your learning route
The program order
Complete the programs in order to finish the route. Each one brings short lessons, applied practice and a realistic business case together.
Plus and Pro members can create a verifiable Stratify certificate when the route is complete.
- Program 01
Strategic Interaction and Co-opetition
Foundational: you learn how competition and cooperation run through the same relationship at once. By the end of this program you can place a business relationship in the four types of strategic interaction, recognize complementors and co-opetition, measure your own added value with the acid test, and assess bargaining power through scarcity.
- The Game of the Pie: Four Types of Interaction
- Co-opetition and Complementors
- Added Value: The Acid Test
Apply it: Applied: Anka Textiles at the Negotiating Table
4 lessons · ≈3 hours
- Program 02
Anticipating the Game: Interdependencies and Player Analysis
Intermediate: you learn to read a rival's next move through the rival's own eyes. By the end of this program you can map the interdependencies between two business models, run a player analysis with Porter's four boxes, build bounded-rationality biases into your predictions, and gather competitor intelligence inside ethical limits.
- Seeing the Game in Advance: Three Tools
- Wintel: Two Models, One Cycle
- Porter's Four Boxes
Apply it: Applied: Toros Gazoz Meets a New Rival
5 lessons · ≈3 hours
- Program 03
Game Theory: Equilibrium and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Intermediate: you learn to anticipate a rival's decisions with numbers. By the end of this program you can set a competitive situation up as a matrix or a game tree, find dominant strategies and Nash equilibria, reason backward through a tree, and design a way out of the prisoner's dilemma with repetition, reputation and contracts.
- Players, Actions, Payoffs
- Dominant Strategy: The Entry Game
- Backward Through the Tree: The Advertising Game
Apply it: Applied: A Season for Lodos and Poyraz
5 lessons · ≈3 hours
- Program 04
Changing the Game and Price Leadership
Advanced: you learn to rebuild the game in your favor instead of taking it as given. By the end of this program you can build deterrence with irreversible commitments, design capability and scope moves such as blue ocean and judo, link and separate games, and calculate the payoffs of price leadership from reaction curves.
- Commitment: The Move You Cannot Take Back
- Capabilities and the Scope of the Game
- Linking and Separating Games
Apply it: Applied: Meltem's Leadership Decision
5 lessons · ≈3 hours