Decisions are like a fundamental particle of management. Look carefully inside every managerial situation – financial investment, pricing policy, operations strategy, research priorities,  technology acquisition, negotiation and so forth – and you find decisions.

Decisions are central to every functional and executive role: no matter what else one is going to do, one must make decisions, and one must make them well! The dilemma is that our natural, instinctive decision making capabilities are well-suited for some types of decisions – yet disastrous for others.  Today’s decision making environment introduces risk, uncertainty, complexity, conflicting objectives, and  other complications. Further, we must interact with the decisions of others – our rivals, customers, suppliers, and partners – which often lead to complex games of bidding, negotiation, competition and cooperation.read more

The “Strategic Decision Analysis” program consists of two courses designed to help a wide range of executives, managers and analysts to a higher level of strategic insight and decision making competence. The first, 3-day course, “Principles of Decision Analysis,” is designed for those who seek to expand their toolkit with essential analytical and software skills for modeling complex decisions. The second, 2-day course, “The Game of Business,” aims at decision makers who constantly face other decision makers and need tools to sort out the complex interaction of the marketplace and other competitive arenas.

In both courses, participants will be exposed to a conceptually challenging program of theoretical foundations and practical application, complex problems and clarifying frameworks, cutting-edge ideas and real life case studies read less