Contents
Introduction to decision management
- What makes good decisions?
- Typical shortcomings and sources of error in decision-making.
- Potential damage due to wrong decisions.
- The conditions for professional decision-making.
- To ensure the rationality of decisions.
Decision-making tools - strategic and operational
- Which recurring strategic and operational issues require which decision-making tools?
- Strategic decision-making tools such as portfolio techniques.
- Contribution margin accounting for product, customer, market and business unit decisions.
- Criteria-based decision-making techniques.
- Investment decisions.
- Value driver models and simulation methods for sensitivity analysis.
- Make-or-buy decisions.
The decision-making process
- Decision-making process in 10 steps.
- Anticipate decision-making situations.
- Optimization of decision-making processes.
- Who should be involved in decisions and how?
- Management of decision boards.
- Legally compliant preparation of decisions in accordance with the Business Judgement Rules.
- Application of different decision-making modes - criteria-based/democratic/consensual/consultative/hierarchical.
- Automated decisions.
- Application of algorithms and simulation tools for decision-making.
Decision-making skills - deriving the right decisions from available information
- Which skills are appropriate for decision makers?
- controllers in the business partner role and as a consultant in the decision-making process.
- Dealing with cognitive distortions and shadow goals.
- Lessons learned from wrong decisions?
Learning environment
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Your benefit
The participants this seminar ...
... learn how an individual manager and, above all, how the "company system" can be put in a position to make the right decisions in the long term.
... train how to achieve clearly defined decision-making processes with the help of control tools and organizational requirements adapted to the situation.
... are provided with practical examples, tools, checklists and processes, instruments and methods that can be used immediately to help them make rapid improvements in their own company.
... learn how the quality of group decisions can be improved.
... get a glimpse of where the journey of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making will take us.
Methods
Training with workshop character, trainer input, group work on case studies, best-practice examples, software application, exchange of experience
Recommended for
The training is aimed at
- Entrepreneurs, managers and junior managers.
- Advisory board members and supervisory board members.
- controllers and management consultants.
- Other (co-decision makers and interested parties.
Previous knowledge required?
Several years of professional experience in a decision-relevant function/role are an advantage but not a requirement.
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Start dates and details
Thursday, 05.06.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.06.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 05.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 06.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 05.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.