Decision school training courses in Chicago, IL (public, in-house or online)

During this seminar, you will learn to:

•Develop a systematic framework for improving negotiation outcomes
•Identify the key characteristics of a good agreement
•Identify common psychological pitfalls that obstruct optimal agreements
•Anticipate and defend against common influence tactics
•Identify personal tendencies to be overly cooperative or competitive in conflict

•Broaden the repertoire of negotiation approaches through practices
•Increase creativity and fl...

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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.