Client education is a big part of what we do. Training is targeted toward three possible client roles: consumer, contributor, and producer.
For executives, we introduce them to what decision analysis is, how to use, and why they need it. We show them why, for example, executives at companies like Chevron, Boeing, Genentech, and Proctor & Gamble require a decision analysis for all major projects and products.
We also train staff to be contributors, so they learn to think probabilistically and dynamically about the issues they face and programs they manage. This equips them to supply the high quality inputs needed for analysis.
Lastly, we train and mentor internal staff to create and lead analysis on their own. Our goal here is to equip clients to handle the routine stuff on their own and possibly call us for the make-or-break issues.
In these roles, we bring decades of experience in teaching decision analysis. Our textbook, Decision Analysis for the Professional, was first published in 1986 and is presently in its fourth edition. We lecture on decision analysis at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. We are on faculty at the Stanford Center for Professional Development, the Academy of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, the American Course on Drug Development & Regulatory Sciences, and the Stanford Summer Institutes. In the latter, we teach decision leadership and negotiation to gifted high school students from around the world.
Whatever your training and education goals are, we can get you there.