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This hands-on Introduction to Decision Analysis gives you the tools to make better, more informed and justifiable decisions. The focus is on thinking creatively about issues and then applying structured, formal analysis to spur action. A range of tools are considered, providing a comprehensive toolkit for those willing to enhance the effectiveness of their organizational or personal decision-making.
This course focuses on lightweight, rapid, "agile" modeling ---cycling rapidly between problems, definitions, analyses, conclusions and actions. Emphasis is placed on structuring assumptions, as opposed to mathematical modeling.
The course does not provide a "deep dive" into the techniques presented. Instead, it will give you an overview of the field and form a foundation for a deeper study of the most appropriate techniques for your current and future decision-making needs.
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In this Decision Analysis training, you will learn how to:
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and a basic understanding of mathematical concepts at a high-school level are prerequisites for participants.
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Anyone who is involved in decision-making! Including those looking to make important personal decisions or those who support decision-makers.
Executives (decision-makers), project managers, strategy analysts, business analysts, are data scientists are all formal job roles that would benefit from the course. Still, everyone is involved in making decisions at some level. Participants should be familiar with Microsoft Excel.
Decision analysis is a formal, structured, systematic and visual approach to evaluating problems that leads to decisions and action. It utilizes a range of methods, models and tools to aid in the capture, analysis and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative information that is germane to the issue at hand.
You can utilize decision analysis at different scales---from personal decision-making to long-range international policy planning. Tools commonly used by decision analysts include decision trees, game theory, statistical modeling and simulation.
Decision analysis removes the need for crucial business decisions on "gut feel." Formalizing the decision-making process fosters collaboration and allows decisions to be reviewed and audited before irreversible decisions are taken.
Showing a clear decision path can be invaluable in highly regulated industries. Companies such as Chevron have made decision analysis a core competence.
Participants should be familiar with Microsoft Excel and understand basic mathematical concepts (high-school level).
Yes. There are various opportunities to build models and analyses issues throughout the training.
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