Executive eBriefings
SDG's Executive eBriefings are one-hour online webconferences designed to help senior executives maneuver in today's environment. There is no charge to participate. Since 2000, SDG has presented dozens of Executive eBriefings to thousands of executives worldwide.
 | Decision Quality: The Art and Science of Good Decision-Making Successful business leaders know that decision-making must be fast, be effective, and maximize value. |
Strategic Innovation: The Power of Design Thinking in Business Innovation has become for many companies not only a priority, but also the driving force of expansion, exploration, and success. | |
Competition, Collaboration, Negotiation: Game Theory and Multiparty Decisions What are the best ways to approach decisions when there are multiple decision makers, each with different information, motives, and goals? | |
 | Strategic Risk Management in Healthcare: How to Manage Uncertainty and Make Better Decisions A new approach to risk management in heathcare allows hospitals and other organizations to better grapple with all the downside and upside risks and opportunities they face. |
Back From the Brink: How Strategic Risk Management Helped a US Manufacturer Avoid Bankruptcy Norman Chambers, CEO of NCI Building Systems, on how strategic risk management helped the business come back from the brink of bankruptcy. | |
 | Corporate Risk Appetite: How to Specify It Many organizations squander their attractive — but risky — opportunities, because they can't judge risks. Risk appetite can provide a universal yardstick for adjusting value for risk. Read More | Replay Now |
 | Value-Driven ERM: What CEOs and Boards Want Most Forward-looking corporate boards and top executives are asking a new question: How can Enterprise Risk Management create and protect enterprise value. Read More | Replay Now |
| Game-Changing Energy Storage: The recent DOE awards of $185 million for 16 grid-scale energy storage projects is evidence of the game-changing role storage is likely to play in the electricity industry. |
Prioritizing R&D at Baxter Healthcare To better assess the tradeoffs required in R&D decision-making, Baxter developed a portfolio system that captures technical and commercial uncertainty in R&D investments. | |
Smart Cost-Cutting: How to Emerge From Budget Pressure Stronger and More Secure An internal group at HP responds to corporate pressure to reduce headcount by measuring the "market value" of every resource. | |
Cost and Schedule Risk Management Large-scale capital projects face tremendous risk due to their long time horizons, complexity, and resource requirements. How rigorous analysis can reduce the risk. | |
| | Better - Cheaper - Faster Why Inspire Pharmaceuticals switched from a Balanced Scorecard approach to managing its product pipeline to a value-based portfolio management system. |
