Structure & Topics Covered
1. How can managers make good decisions?
- Biases, fallacies, and the most common pitfalls in managerial decisions
- Kahneman’s thinking fast and slow
- A simple representation of the decision-making process for innovation, start-ups, or new projects
2. A scientific method for managerial and innovation decisions
- The notion of a “scientific” approach to managerial decisions
- Decision-making approaches to handling uncertainty
- Design thinking
- First principles thinking
- Discovery by design
- Real options
- Entrepreneurial experimentation
- The lean start-up method
3. Basic tools for analyzing and interpreting managerial and innovation data
- Random variables, probabilities, distributions
- False positives and false negatives in managerial and innovation decisions
- Correlation vs. causality in managerial and innovation decisions
- Regression analysis to interpret managerial and innovation data
- Practical session
4. A scientific approach to framing and validating customers’ problems and solutions
- Innovation as problem solving
- Antecedents and components of the scientific approach to innovation
- Theory: Thinking and reasoning approaches and templates for problem-solution framing and validation
- How to formulate hypotheses
- Evidence: how to pick data analysis methods and metrics
- Evaluation: judging evidence to reduce improper inference
- Decision: setting thresholds and debiasing
5. Running experiments in your organization
- Causality in data analysis
- How to set an experiment and A/B tests
- Difference-in-difference analyses
- Practical session
6. Big data, artificial Intelligence, and machine learning for managerial and innovation decisions
- What big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning can do for managerial decision-making
- Examples of the use of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning (pattern recognition, predictions)
- Practical session
You will have the chance to examine your own journey in light of the experiences of those who are dealing with the same professional challenges.
Networking Aperitivo&Dinner. The Networking aperitivo & dinner is an informal chance to get to know other people in the course
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Why Join Us?
Benefits for the Participant
- Acquire systematic methods and approaches for strategic decision-making
- Increase your ability to lead amid uncertainty
- Leverage the outstanding international expertise of the program’s faculty.
Benefits for Your Company
- Use data to solve problems
- Develop the right mental approach and critical mindset to make the most of interrogating data
- Update to the cutting edge of data-driven decision making to boost performance.
Certificates
Digital Badges
The digital badges are an innovative and immediate way to share your achievements. They are verifiable and associated with an individual user. They allow you to update your network of contacts by highlighting the different steps reached in your SDA Bocconi journey.
Certification of partecipation
The certificate – presented in both print and digital forms – is a useful way to enhance your CV and portfolio of educational experiences. It is granted to participants who have attended at least 80% of the lessons.
Information
Program Agenda
The program lasts 3 days (24-hour time equivalent), from 18 to 21 November 2024.
18 Nov 2024
14pm-18pm
19-20 Nov 2024
9am-18pm
21 Nov 2024
9am-13pm
Program Location
On-campus training will take place at:
Bocconi School of Management: Via Sarfatti 10, 20136 Milan (Italy)
Fee
€ 3.500 (+ VAT) fee includes educational materials and working lunches, but not VAT. A maximum number of participants is pre-determined. You can reserve and register online on the program’s web page.
Special Payment Terms
A 10% reduction on the program fees offered to applications sent in by the 19st of September 2024. The final deadline for enrollment is 29th October 2024.
For further information and details on discounts, please refer to:
www.sdabocconi.it/special-payment-terms
Apply ASAP
You can apply for the Program until the day before it is due to start. For organizational reasons, we encourage you to complete your registration process 10 days before the Program begins.
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