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Goals

  • Identify the ins and outs of decision-making.
  • Discover the main principles.
  • Experiment most common decision-making techniques.
  • Make optimal group decisions by using the contributions of each one.

Target audience

Managers. Anyone willing to improve own decision-making techniques.

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Introduction to decision-making

  • What’s a decision? What does decision-making involve?
  • Characteristics and frequent mistakes of decision maker
  • Make decisions: individually or in a group?
  • What can we learn from past experiences?

Principles of decision-making

  • Ockham’s (Occam’s) razor
  • Pareto principle
  • Parkinson’s law
  • Importance against urgency
  • Game theory
  • The tragedy of commons

Decision-making techniques

  • Trade-offs analysis
  • The pair-wise comparison
  • Force fields analysis
  • PMI analysis (pros and cons, impacts)
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • The decision tree

Make a group decision

  • Benefits and complexity of a collective decision
  • Put oneself in conditions of success
  • Support; allow everyone to contribute; facilitate and moderate the group
  • The ladder principle
  • The DELPHI method

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