Decision school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

This course weaves together individual and organizational perspectives on career management. It provides a framework for understanding adult development, career stages and transition, and explores how skills, values, and motivators influence work engagement, job satisfaction, and success. The class also examines the workplace context by looking at career cultures and systems, practices for developing staff, work/life integration, and the multigenerational workplace. (4 credits)

You Will Learn How To

Fully support your business decisions through proven statistical techniques
Manage contingencies and risks to enhance your business strategies
Optimize your decisions by applying measurements and tests to your data
Leverage survey techniques to effectively evaluate data
Prepare your organization for future trend fluctuations through statistical forecasting methods
Present information with precision and clarity

Course Benefits

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Applied Managerial Statistics stresses the practical use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Areas covered include descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, regression analysis, and time series analysis. Attention is devoted to the use of statistical thinking in improving the managerial decision making process.

This course focuses on the use and application of information systems to support the decision-making process. Knowledge-based systems, neural networks, expert systems, electronic meeting systems, group systems and web-based systems are discussed as a basis for designing and developing highly effective decision support systems. Data models, interactive processes, knowledge-based approaches and integration with database systems are also described. Theoretical concepts are applied to real-world app...

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The course examines intermediate-level price theory and surveys applications to public sector decision making. Topics include demand, supply, behavior of the market, and introductory welfare economics. Applications include forecasting, benefit-cost analysis, input-output analysis, and economic modeling.