Open Options combines extensive experience, a structured process, and strategic modeling software built on proven game theory principles to help organizations better understand how to utilize other players' fears and desires to determine the best course of action in a given situation.

Our People

Open Options' strategic team has more than 40 years experience in game theory research and its real world application. Our team combines executive level business experience with deep technical understanding of game theory and operations research.

Our Process

Open Options' unique approach to strategic decision making is based on the principles of game theory -- a well-developed field of mathematics and economics used to:

1. Predict the behavior of people and organizations in business situations that comprise both similar and conflicting objectives.
2. Assist management in making better decisions in those situations.

Through years of working with leading organizations around the globe, Open Options has developed a unique process that focuses discussion, reveals hidden assumptions and captures the group's knowledge in a structured manner. Then using game theory based, proprietary software we help companies identify the sequence of actions that will maximize results.

The success of our powerful and time-efficient process has led to significant results for our clients, including gaining key advantages over their competitors, improving strategic positioning, and saving millions or even billions of dollars.

Our Technology

Open Options' proprietary strategic software solution was originally developed to help government agencies model complex political, economic, and military conflicts during the Cold War to predict the most likely results of these crises and to search for superior possible outcomes.

From that base, we have adapted and refined our technology to address hundreds of real-world corporate decision dilemmas. Our proprietary software takes game theory to a new level by analyzing company and industry information through a series of algorithms. The algorithms operate at both the tactical and strategic level. On the tactical level, the software reveals insights that help characterize the players and the interactions between them. On the strategic level, the software helps sort through millions of possible paths forward -- impossible to identify through human brain power alone -- and develop the most effective strategy for your organization's specific situation.

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