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Effective Decision Making: Dealing with Business Complexity
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
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Week 1: Scenario analysis
Introduction to Complexity
Apply to your own case
Reflecting on your application
Adapting your case
Accompanying reading for this course
Week 2: Stakeholder analysis
Introduction to Actors and Power-Interest
Apply to your own case
Reflecting on your application
Adapting your case
Week 3: Goal analysis and criteria
Introduction to Goals and Criteria
Apply to your own case
Ask the Professor
Reflecting on your application
Adapting your case
Leadership in practice: Interviews with managers about their experience with the analytical mindset
Week 4: Multi criteria decision analysis
Introduction to Scenarios and System Interventions
Application to your own case
Reflecting video on your application
Adapting your case
Leadership in practice: Interviews with managers about their experience with the analytical mindset
Week 5: Formulate a sound business strategy
Introduction video to Multi Criteria Tables
Apply to your own case
Reflecting on your application
Adapting your case
Ask the Professor
Leadership Pitch
Managerial Summary Assignment
Next Steps in the Leadership Series
Bonus week: Leadership Pitch
Prerequisite
The course is designed for individuals who are in a leadership position or preparing for such positions in the future. A few years of experience in an organizational setting will be an advantage, but is not a requirement.
Instructors
Alexander de Haan
Business Analyst and Strategic Consultant
Hans de Bruijn
Professor of Public Administration in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
Els van Daalen
Associate Professor of Policy Analysis
Delft University of Technology
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Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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