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.
Data Science for Decision Professionals
September 16, 2019
The past few years have seen broad cross-industry adoption of data-driven decision making. Big data, artificial intelligence, and data science have taken center stage. This webinar provides decision professionals with an introductory understanding of the data science philosophy and an overview of how to integrate data focused techniques into decision models and processes. Build the …Read More…
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Scenarios & Forecasting: Planning for Uncertainty
July 10, 2019
Gain a better understanding of the tools of scenario planning to create a vivid, compelling vision of how the future might unfold. Learn how to test strategic alternatives against your scenarios to find the best path forward. Scenario planning can help you broaden your strategic thinking about the future; design better, more flexible alternatives; and …Read More…
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How Game Theory Can Help Us Make Better Decisions
May 15, 2019
Game theory can provide useful insights into the competitive and cooperative kinds of strategic decisions regularly made by businesses today. In addition, game theory can support negotiations, where different points of view and preferences can provide the opportunity both to create greater value and to allocate that value in a mutually beneficial way. Speaker Dr. …Read More…
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Climate Change: A Decision Quality Approach to Policy
April 24, 2019
The polarizing issue of climate change intertwines science, geopolitics, economic trends, and the complexity of assigning a value to things that are hard to assess in economic terms. Scientists fear that human activities—specifically actions that increase the emission of greenhouse gases—have set the Earth on a path of significant, possibly catastrophic, change. Then there is …Read More…
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Accelerating the Journey to DQ with Distracted and Dispersed Teams
February 13, 2019
Successful Applications at Whiting Petroleum Today’s decision professional faces challenges like never before. Decision makers whose time is severely limited. Team members juggling competing demands for their attention. Subject matter experts scattered across multiple time zones. Decision professionals must guide these distracted and dispersed teams to a quality decision on ever shorter timelines. Traditional approaches …Read More…
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Toward Superforecasting®: Lessons from the Eli Lilly Probability Assessment Panel
January 30, 2019
Accurate forecasts can make or break a business. But as we learned in our September webinar with bestselling author Dr. Phil Tetlock, who wrote Superforecasting®: The Art and Science of Prediction, most predictions – even those from so-called experts – frequently miss the mark. How can we know if our probability assessments are as good as they can – …Read More…
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Premortem 3.0 – The Best Prevention for a Postmortem
November 15, 2018
Rethink the Premortem as a critical digital tool for today’s complex world in this webinar hosted by our friends and colleagues at Powernoodle. CLICK TO VIEW REPLAY Join us to gain valuable insights on how the premortem can save organizations like yours from the financial and reputational loss associated with failed implementations. Premortems are one …Read More…
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The Great American Pastime: What Baseball Can Teach Us About Decision Making
October 10, 2018
Baseball is a highly strategic game, with important decisions being made both on and off the field. In this fun and interactive webinar, we use the lens of decision quality to analyze a half-inning of play between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves. We will show how the DQ framework can both improve on-field …Read More…
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How to Build a Superforecasting® Team
September 19, 2018
Some forecasters are able to outperform the so-called experts – again and again. What sets these “superforecasters” apart, and how can managers nurture and develop a team? Wharton Professor Philip Tetlock, coauthor of the bestseller Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, shares some ideas.
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Creating Value from Flexibility and Uncertainty
August 8, 2018
Although an increasing number of companies use decision and risk management methods to deal with complex and uncertain decisions, most still underperform according to typical business metrics and are unable to deliver the value they had estimated. Uncertainty per se is not the culprit; rather, it is a failure to make the—often counterintuitive—best decisions under …Read More…
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