Seminar Overview:

Executives contemplating choices around how to grow their companies face a myriad of difficult choices. These decisions include whether and how to forge alliances, make acquisitions, or invest. At the same time, they are faced with a number of uncertainties about the competitive landscape. This seminar shows executives how to use game theory to peer into the future in the rapidly changing game of business to gain a clear perspective on the long-term implications of their alternatives. Executives learn to develop a resilient strategy that can best influence others and manage uncertainties, and that can enable quick adaptation to changing circumstances.

In this course, negotiators will:

• Learn the fundamentals of the most powerful and practical game-theoretic approach, Strategic Gaming^®:
• The five key questions required to frame and evaluate any gaming situation:
• Strategic Gaming^®’s three-stage process:

1. Dynamic Framing
2. Strategy Evaluation
3. Execution Planning

• Apply the fundamentals to a case study

About the Instructor

Dr. Paul Papayoanou (Founder, Strategic Gaming Group) developed Strategic Gaming^® and was awarded registration of a service mark for the powerful application of game theory by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2005. Dr. Papayoanou has been using game theory approaches in academia and the business world for twenty years. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a professor at the University of California, San Diego and at Harvard University before going into consulting. As a consultant, Dr. Papayoanou has helped numerous companies in a wide range of industries to make and execute important business decisions that have saved or added billions of dollars of value.

Dr. Papayoanou is the author of Power Ties, co-editor of New Games, and has published numerous articles for business and academic publications. His newest book, Strategic Gaming^®, will soon be published.

Seminar Schedule

Seminar Length: Approx. 3.5 hours

Kansas City, Missouri - December 29, 2010 - Location:
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 West 12th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Requests to cancel your registration must be made in
writing one month before the date of the seminar. Your refund will reflect a $95
processing fee. No refunds will be granted within one month of the course for which
you are enrolled. You may send a substitute for an additional $55 processing fee.