Dear colleagues
I would like to invite you for the next free SDP/DAS Webinar: Virtual Decision-Modelling Workshops for Creating the Future
Summary:
The aim of this Webinar is to describe how a group of experts can work collaboratively and virtually on contentious issues to create a decision-analytic model that will help individuals facing the issues in deciding what to do next.
All four of us will report on how we are facilitating virtual workshops by building on our experience of decision conferences. Larry will begin by illustrating a face-to-face decision conference using a case study about the benefit-safety balance of pain-killer drugs. Over two days, a group of experts identified and structured eleven criteria representing the benefits and risks of taking the drugs, assessed probabilities and preference values of the drugs' effects, judged swing-weights associated with the criteria, and explored the results, including sensitivity analyses that deal with imprecision in the data and differences of opinion about the inputs.
Patrick, Paul, and Edward will then show how they are developing decision conferencing processes that consist of several shorter virtual meetings over several days, weeks or months. These effectively achieve the goals of a single decision conference: a shared understanding of the issues (though not necessarily consensus), a sense of common purpose (while preserving individual differences of opinion) and a commitment to the way forward (though accepting participants' differences in the paths). In short, everyone pulling in the same direction. A final period of questions and answers, followed by Alberto's summing-up, will conclude the Webinar.
Larry Phillips, Prof. Emeritus, London School of Economics, and Director, Facilitations Ltd.
Larry is an Emeritus Professor of Decision Science at the London School of Economics and a Director of Facilitations Limited. He works as a process consultant, helping individuals and teams facing difficult decisions to arrive at an agreed way forward. Larry's expertise is in decision and risk analysis, and teamworking, which he applies to issues of strategic and operational management, option evaluation, prioritisation, resource allocation, and crisis management.
Patrick Sharry, AGSM Fellow, Business School, UNSW, Australia
Patrick is an expert facilitator with extensive experience working with senior executives across a diverse range of industries including financial services, internet technology and international trade. He is regularly engaged to assist with complex workplace and leadership issues for organisations in Australia, Asia, the USA, the UK and Europe, as well as being involved with development programs in places such as PNG, East Timor, and Myanmar.
Paul Gordon, CEO & Technical Director, Catalyze Asia Pacific
Paul is the CEO of Catalyze APAC – a niche consulting firm that transforms decision making in private & public sector organisations – & is a trusted adviser to executives & senior leaders across many industries. For more than fifteen years, Paul has helped some of the largest & most influential organisations in Australia, New Zealand & the United Kingdom make hard decisions that involve budgets in the billions & impact millions of stakeholders.
Edward Poot, Director New Zealand, Catalyze Asia Pacific
Edward has worked in or with the public sector for his entire working career and has spent the last seven years at Catalyze consulting primarily in New Zealand's public sector in a wide variety of departments and agencies. He has also consulted for Catalyze's private sector and not-for-profit clients. Edward facilitates key decision points for major programmes and strategic planning activities and brings previous experience working in government Central Agencies and Ministers' offices.
Moderator:
Alberto Franco,
Associate Dean (Teaching) and Professor of Management Science,
Loughborough University, UK.
Alberto is a decision scientist with more than 20 years of experience as a researcher and consultant to organizations such as Bombardier, Whitbread, Network Rail, Defra and the World Health Organization. His research examines how human behaviour affects, or is affected by, the use of designed decision processes and tools, and his work has been published in, among others,
British Journal of Management, European Journal of Operational Researc
h,
Group Decision and Negotiation, The Leadership Quarterly
, and
Risk Analysis
.
Please register here:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7767964297984247311Best wishes and keep safe,
Gilberto
(SDP Program Council Chair & DAS Representative in the Council)
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Professor of Management Science, Loughborough University, UK
Senior Research Fellow, CREATE, University of Southern California, USA
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