Strategies & Gameplays
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📄️ Alliances
Alliances are a formal, structured form of cooperation, designed to pool resources and coordinate action for ecosystem-level impact. All alliances are cooperation, but not all cooperation is an alliance.
📄️ Ambush
Surprising competitors with significant and unexpected technological advances.
📄️ Artificial competition
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📄️ Brand and marketing
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📄️ Bundling
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📄️ Buyer / supplier power
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📄️ Centre of gravity
Centre of Gravity
📄️ Channel Conflicts
Channel Conflicts & Disintermediation
📄️ Circling and Probing
Testing the waters in a competitor’s territory through small-scale incursions.
📄️ Co-creation
Co-creation
📄️ Co-opting
Adopting or mimicking aspects of another group or competitor to neutralise threats, gain influence, or draw converts—without full alignment.
📄️ Confusion of choice
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📄️ Cooperation
Working with others, even competitors, to achieve a goal.
📄️ Creating artificial needs
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📄️ Creating constraints
Creating Constraints
📄️ Defensive regulation
Defensive Regulation: Using Government to Protect Your Market
📄️ Designed to fail
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📄️ Differentiation
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📄️ Directed investment
Directed Investment
📄️ Disposal of liability
Disposal of Liability
📄️ Education
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📄️ Embrace and extend
Embrace and Extend
📄️ Experimentation
Experimentation
📄️ Exploiting constraint
Exploiting Constraints
🗃️ Exploiting Network Effects
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📄️ Fast Follower
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📄️ Fear, uncertainty and doubt
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📄️ First Mover
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📄️ Fool's mate
Fool's Mate
📄️ Fragmentation Play
Splintering a rival's market to erode their stronghold.
📄️ Harvesting
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📄️ Industrial policy
Industrial Policy
📄️ Insertion
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📄️ Land Grab
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📄️ Last Man Standing
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📄️ Licensing play
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📄️ Limitation of Competition
Limitation of Competition
📄️ Lobbying
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📄️ Managing inertia
Managing Inertia: Countering Resistance to Change
📄️ Market enablement
Market Enablement
📄️ Misdirection
Deliberately sending false or misleading signals to competitors to obscure your true intentions.
📄️ Open approaches
Open Approaches
📄️ Patents & Intellectual Property Rights
Patents & IPR (Intellectual Property Rights)
📄️ Pig in a poke
Pig in a Poke
📄️ Playing both sides
Playing Both Sides
📄️ Press release process
Press Release Process
📄️ Pricing policy
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📄️ Procrastination
Procrastination: Do nothing and allowing competition to drive a system to a more evolved form.
📄️ Raising barriers to entry
Raising Barriers to Entry: Increasing Expectations within a market for a range of user needs to be met in order to prevent others entering the market.
📄️ Refactoring
Internally reorganizing and repurposing components of a legacy system to salvage value or reduce toxicity. Refactoring means breaking the old asset into parts, reassigning useful parts to new roles, and eliminating the rest. Akin to code refactoring in software, but applied to business assets.
📄️ Reinforcing Competitor Inertia
Exploiting a competitor's reluctance or inability to change.
📄️ Restriction of Movement
Limiting a rival's ability to maneuver or adapt.
📄️ Sapping
Attacking a competitor on multiple fronts simultaneously to weaken their capacity to respond.
📄️ Sensing Engines (ILC)
Sensing Engines (ILC)
📄️ Signal distortion
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📄️ Standards game
A strategy focused on making your technology, process, or specification the dominant benchmark in a market, thereby disadvantaging competitors who use alternatives.
📄️ Sweat and Dump
Sweat & Dump
📄️ Talent Raid
Removing or absorbing key talent from a rival organization.
📄️ Threat acquisition
Threat Acquisition: Buying Potential Competitors
📄️ Tower and moat
Tower and Moat
📄️ Two factor markets
Two Factor Markets
📄️ Undermining barriers to entry
Undermining Barriers to Entry
📄️ Weak Signal (Horizon)
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