Course
Professional Decision Management in an Agile Environment («H32591»)
Increase the quality of your decisions: learn how to make well-founded decisions with tried-and-tested tools and clear processes. Minimize risks and create agile solutions for sustainable success in your company.
Duration
2 days
Price
1'800.–
Please note:
This is a reseller course and as such excluded from any discounts (excluding promo codes).
Course information
This course is held in cooperation with Haufe Akademie. For the purpose of conducting the course, the participants' data will be transmitted there and processed there under their own responsibility. Please take note of the relevant Privacy notice.
Course facts
Key Learnings
- Learning how an individual manager and, above all, the «company system» can be enabled to make the right decisions in the long term
- Training how clearly defined decision-making processes can be achieved with the help of management tools and organizational requirements adapted to the situation
- Obtaining immediately applicable instruments and methods based on practical examples, tools, checklists and processes that help to achieve rapid improvements in your own company
- Learning how the quality of group decisions can be increased
- Gaining an outlook on where the journey of artificial intelligence and automated decisions will take us
Content
1 Introduction to decision management
- What makes a good decision?
- Typical shortcomings and sources of error in decisions
- Potential damage caused by wrong decisions
- The conditions for professional decision-making
- Ensuring the rationality of decisions
2 Decision-making tools – strategic and operational
- Which recurring strategic and operational issues require which decision-making tools?
- Strategic decision-making tools such as portfolio techniques
- Contribution margin accounting for product, customer, market and business unit decisions
- Criteria-based decision-making techniques
- Investment decisions
- Value driver models and simulation methods for sensitivity analysis
- Make-or-buy decisions
3 The decision-making process
- Decision-making process in 10 steps
- Anticipating decision-making situations
- Optimization of decision-making processes
- Who should be involved in decisions and how?
- Management of decision boards
- Legally compliant decision preparations according to the Business Judgement Rules
- Application of different decision-making modes – criteria-based / democratic / consensual / consultative / hierarchical
- Automated decisions
- Use of algorithms and simulation tools for decision-making
4 Decision-making skills – deriving the right decisions from available information
- Which skills are appropriate for decision-makers?
- Controller in the role of business partner and advisor in the decision-making process
- Dealing with cognitive biases and shadow objectives
- Lessons learned from wrong decisions?
Methodology & didactics
Training with workshop character, trainer input, group work on case studies, best-practice examples, software application, exchange of experience
Target audience
The training is aimed at entrepreneurs, managers and junior managers, board members, controllers and management consultants as well as other (co-)decision-makers and interested parties.
Requirements
There are no formal requirements for participation in this course.
Additional information
We recommend booking at least 14 days before the seminar date so that you can receive any documents by post in good time.
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Questions
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