Leading in a Data Driven World – Developing Quantitative IntuitionTM
Speakers:
Christopher Frank
– VP of Global Advertising and Brand Management Team at American Express
Paul Magnone
– Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Google
Oded Netzer
– Vice Dean for Research and Professor of Business
at Columbia Business School and Amazon Scholar at Amazon
Abstract:
What distinguishes a person who makes smart, confident data-driven decisions? It is not exceptional analytic skills or rare expertise. Instead, successful leaders balance data, experience and intuition. They quickly sort through information, apply judgment, and are fierce interrogators who cultivate sharp insights. They apply first-order principles to understand what the decision really is, why it must be taken, by when, and to what end. In short, they make intelligent decisions with incomplete information.
In this presentation Frank, Magnone and Netzer – three seasoned executives and renowned educators – deliver a pragmatic blueprint to frame issues and navigate to data-informed answers. They marry original and insightful research with frontline experience to put forward a set of techniques called Quantitative Intuition (QI)TM. The presentation is based on a new book co-authored by the three presenters called Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance Between Intuition and Information.