If your company is navigating the crosscurrents of a turbulent business environment, you understand the need for creativity, clarity, and speed in strategic decision-making across all functions and at every level. Critical strategic decisions must be made under tremendous time pressure, and they must be right the first time - decisions about capacity investments, international market entry, marketing programs, pricing policy, major customer and supplier contracts, acquisitions, new products, R&D investments, enterprise risk management; the list goes on.

These decisions shape the direction of your organization, and their quality shapes its success.

New Thinking and Best Practices

This two-day seminar addresses these challenges. The Stanford Center for Professional Development, in partnership with Strategic Decisions Group, shares new thinking about and best practices in strategic decision-making and risk management. Topics to be covered include:

• The greatest sources of value destruction in the last decade
• Fostering innovation as a means of more creatively addressing strategic business problems
• Making sure you are presented with meaningful strategic choices
• Organizational governance design principles that enhance decision quality
• The benefits of viewing enterprise risk management from a value-driven rather than compliance-driven perspective
• Using complexity and uncertainty to your business's advantage
• Balancing the needs and desires of diverse stakeholders
• Participative dialogue as a process to generate more easily implemented, value-creating decisions.

The complete syllabus is available here.

Conceptual, Practical, Interactive

Leave the seminar with new concepts and practices to

• Make more creative, better quality long-term decisions faster
• Better protect and grow shareholder value
• Enhance your effectiveness as a leader and customer of decision teams.

Benefit from the opportunity to interact with and learn from both the presenters and your peers from a cross-section of industries. The seminar is intended for senior executives with significant strategy responsibilities - chief executive officers, chief operating officers, corporate development officers, and decision-makers with major line-of-business responsibilities.

This seminar is a companion program to the three-week Stanford Certificate Program in Strategic Decision and Risk Management. It distills and tailors the content of the certificate program for senior decision-makers.

Registration

The fee for the seminar is $3,500.
* this fee includes a reception and dinner

Registration Deadline: October 3, 2008

To register, please click the "enroll now" button located on the upper right of the page.

The seminar will be held on the Stanford University campus on November 13 - 14, 2008. It will run from 1:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on November 13 and from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on November 14.

For more information, contact us by phone (1-866-234-3380 or outside the US +1-650-475-4490) or by e-mail at SDRM_reg@scpdinfo.stanford.edu.

This seminar is intended for senior executives with significant strategy responsibilities-chief executive officers, chief operating officers, corporate development officers, and decision-makers with major line-of-business responsibilities.