Modeling for Strategic Insight
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SDRM Elective
This 2½-day course develops skills needed to build useful models in strategic decision situations and harnesses those skills to draw powerful insights.
Modeling for Strategic Insight is an elective course in the Stanford Certificate Program in Strategic Decision and Risk Management, a joint program with SDG.
Learn the best practices for decision modeling and generating a deeper understanding of the opportunity for value creation. This course covers:
- How to structure a variety of generic business situations, such as capacity expansion, a new product launch, and investment in improved technology
- Best practices in creating and using decision models with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- Use of software to generate tornado diagrams, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulations and, ultimately, insight into how to make the best decisions.
Offered through the Stanford Center for Professional Development in partnership with SDG.
