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Strategic Decision and Risk Management Practicum

XSDR420

Delivery Options: At Stanford

Course Description

This workshop integrates the concepts, tools, and skills learned in the three other required courses. A comprehensive case exercise provides a realistic setting, giving participants the experience of working on a moderately complex decision problem from start to finish.

Students work on the case in teams of up to six members, coached by an experienced decision consultant, in a high-feedback environment.

Please note: this course is only available on campus at Stanford.

Sample Course Syllabus

Topics Include

  • Framing a moderately complex problem
  • Generating creative alternatives and discovering hybrid strategies through analysis
  • Assessing information using probabilities and ranges
  • Conducting analyses to produce tornado diagrams, waterfall diagrams, and probability distributions
  • Drawing insights from the analyses and synthesizing them to form a clear understanding of the best strategy
  • Planning and conducting a decision dialogue to communicate with decision-makers.

Course Notes

Laptop Computer

Please bring a laptop computer equipped with the following:

  • Microsoft® Windows (no earlier than Windows 98)
  • Microsoft® Excel (no earlier than Excel 97)
  • CD-ROM drive or USB portMicrosoft® Excel Skills

We will use Microsoft® Excel 2002 during the course. Prior participants have suggested that if you do not consider yourself to be an experienced Excel user, you might want to brush up on the skills listed here. We will use each of the skills in the workshop.

Degrees and Certificates

Accrediting Associations
Project Management Institute 20.0 Units

Prerequisite(s)
These courses are required

Requires an accepted application.


Applications may be submitted online at anytime.

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COURSE SECTION

XSDR420 - 004 At Stanford Available Winter 2009-10

Enroll in this Section

Day Date Time Location
Wed   Mar 24 1:30PM to 5:00PM Stanford, Skilling Bldg
Thu   Mar 25 8:00AM to 5:00PM Stanford, Skilling Bldg
Fri   Mar 26 8:00AM to 5:00PM Stanford, Skilling Bldg

Required Software/Technology: Laptop Computer Please bring a laptop computer equipped with the following: Microsoft® Windows (no earlier than Windows 98) Microsoft® Excel (no earlier than Excel 97) CD-ROM drive or USB portMicrosoft® Excel Skills We will use Microsoft® Excel 2002 during the course.

Course Materials:
You will be mailed a confirmation kit 1 – 2 weeks before Stanford campus start date. Pre-reading materials, if any, will be included.

Attendance Requirement:
An absence of up to 30 cumulative minutes may be excused by the Program Manager. For any absence greater than this, you will be required to view the online version of the course and pass an exam before the completion certificate is awarded.

Video-taping:
We frequently video-tape courses, and you will be asked to sign a waiver when you check-in for each course providing SCPD permission to use any comments, photos, or video footage of you.

Units: 2.0 CEUs

Instructor(s):
Bruce Judd, Jennifer Meyer, Steven Tani, Hannah Winter

Tuition Options:
At Stanford Coursre $2,600.00 ?

Section Fee(s):
Stanford University Transcript (CEU) $75.00 ?

Potential Price Adjustments: Early Registration Discount




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