A Leader's Guide to Better Decisions - The Key Competitive Advantage

Today's marketplace differs from yesterday's in several important ways. Faster market cycles, more complex technologies, and leaner operations have all combined to make the margin of error very small on strategic decisions. The result of this has been greater demands on today's decision maker as well as magnified consequences of poor decisions.

The Opportunity to Learn Real-World Skills that Create Value for You and Your Company

In business today, exciting new technologies provide you with effortless access to almost unlimited quantities of raw data. Companies with the ability to convert this raw data into meaningful, actionable information will gain a valuable competitive advantage. In this dynamic, 2-day seminar, you'll examine strategies for gaining the information needed to make effective decisions in the time frame required. You'll look at the best of recent research, gain advice from leading thinkers and examine key decisions from real situations faced by real leaders. Specifically, you will :

• Practice strategies of data analysis to gain an accurate view of a situation
• Craft visual displays of evidence and information that compel action
• Learn from Nobel Prize winning research on ways to detect & prevent delusional optimism
• Inventory measurements used to track progress and identify holes in our views of the future
• Use decision trees to map alternatives and understand potential payoffs
• Examine ways in which judgments are made and decisions are reached