SDG’s online webinars, each less than one hour, focus on topics related to decision making and risk management. Here are our latest sessions. For a complete list of all webinars available for replay, visit our Resource Hub. To be notified of future events, join our email community.
Hydrogen Scenario Planning
July 14, 2022
Hydrogen can play a pivotal role in achieving net zero goals, given its abundance and versatility. Realizing the commercial-scale use of clean hydrogen will require technological breakthroughs across the hydrogen value chain and advances in other low-carbon technologies such as CCUS and renewable power. These requirements present enormous uncertainty in how the hydrogen economy will …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Rising to the Challenge in Aerospace Today: Better Decisions in a Rapidly Changing Environment
May 18, 2022
The aerospace industry is facing change that extends across technologies, systems, and organizations. The volume of business opportunities is growing dramatically, and new technologies are maturing faster than ever. The explosion of new companies and the capabilities they are offering is changing the competitive landscape as never before. The space development goals and objectives now …Read More…
Read More | Replay
The Importance of Portfolio Strategy in an Era of Real-Time Portfolio Management
March 16, 2022
Today, many pharma companies are investing in capabilities and tools to enable real-time portfolio management, in the belief this will help find the best portfolio for their company. However, real-time portfolio management is no substitute for a clear, forward-looking portfolio strategy. Using the portfolio management tools to guide strategy is like using your car’s steering …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Navigating the Complex Landscape of Energy Transition Decisions
November 17, 2021
The current transition to reduce—and conceivably eliminate—carbon emissions is a transformational socio-economic event at an unprecedented scale. This movement can be viewed as a complex interaction of players and the decisions they make. In this webinar, our speakers discuss how the decisions made by and available to these players are highly interrelated and will shape …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Reinventing Capital Project Delivery
October 21, 2021
Embedding Decision Quality to Improve Project Success Large capital projects are a great place for building in decision quality—from beginning to end—to achieve organizational congruence and deliver maximum value. In this webinar, you will hear how decision quality helps organizations and multi-party ventures achieve greater value and reduce cost and schedule uncertainty in major capital …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Harnessing Conflict to Fuel a Healthy Decision Culture
September 22, 2021
Every healthy corporate culture has a set of common components—values, strategy, vision, people, practices, narrative. At its core is the culture around how decisions are made. A healthy decision culture not only generates measurably better decisions but also harnesses conflict to fuel productive decision making. View this webinar to gain a better understanding of how …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Embracing Uncertainty to Sharpen Scenario Planning and Forecasting
July 7, 2021
Scenario planning can help you broaden your strategic thinking about the future; design better, more robust alternatives; and harness data analytics and modeling to develop more-effective forecasts and better long-term decisions. View this webinar to gain a better understanding of how to use the tools of scenario planning to create a vivid, compelling vision of …Read More…
Read More | Replay
A New Approach to Early-Stage Portfolio Decision Making
June 9, 2021
Comparing investments with long lead-times can be an exercise in futility. Trying to obtain credible inputs for outcomes 15 to 20 years hence is fraught with challenges and conventional methodology, such as modeling net present value, is of limited effectiveness. As a result, portfolio decisions—in industries from genomics to technology to energy—often skew toward low-risk …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Three Cheers for Simple Models: What COVID-19 Taught Us About Decision Modeling
May 20, 2021
Over the last 15 months we have witnessed policymakers grappling with how to respond to the spread of COVID-19 across the globe. In the United States, policymakers at local, state, and federal levels have faced difficult decisions regarding the degree to which citizens should interact with each other, how much of the economy should be …Read More…
Read More | Replay
Putting a Value on Data and Information Before Your Gather It
March 17, 2021
Organizations spend billions of dollars each year gathering and analyzing data. Is it worth it? Does more information always improve decision making? Can we place a value on something as abstract as information? In this webinar, our speakers explore the concept of the value of information (VOI) using the framework of decision quality. We define “perfect” and …Read More…
Read More | Replay