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Fireside Chat: Decision Analysis and Data Science in Pricing
Fireside chat by Thomas Seyller of Google at 2019 DAAG Conference in Denver. This talk explores how Decision Analysis and Data Science inform pricing decisions.
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Keynote Presentation: AI is Decision-Making at Scale
Keynote presentation by Cassie Kozyrkov, Google at 2019 DAAG Conference in Denver.
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Facilitating Choices: Teaching the System to Change Without Resistance
Presented by Sharon Drew Morgen (Morgen Facilitations) at 2013 DAAG Conference in Austin. These talks explores the human side of decision-making and introduce perspectives that are complementary to decision analysis and have a proven record for success in business.
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Facilitating Choices: Teaching the System to Change Without Resistance
Presented by Gerald Bush at 2013 DAAG Conference in Austin. These talks explores the human side of decision-making and introduce perspectives that are complementary to decision analysis and have a proven record for success in business.
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DA Implementation Planning: DAAG 2012 Breakout Results
Presented by Ellen Coopersmith (Decision Frameworks) at 2012 DAAG Conference in Chicago. The session enabled dialogue and understanding of key elements necessary for successful DA implementation and how DAAG companies are progressing.
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Everything We Know is Wrong - Leach
Presented by Pat Leach (Decision Strategies) at 2012 DAAG Conference in Chicago. All of the logic, intuition, and metrics humans have for making decisions were developed during a time when resources were abundant, populations were relatively small, and we could focus on maximizing returns today because tomorrow always held new frontiers. None of this is true anymore.
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Decision Analysis Without Jargon or Models or DA as a Natural Act
Presented by Rob Kleinbaum (RAK) at 2012 DAAG Conference in Chicago. Applications of decision analysis in which monetization and jargon were deliberately avoided. These interactions were intentionally designed to help decision makers gain clarity of action through a quality decision process without monetary rollbacks, NPVs or fancy, highfalutin, special language.
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Soft Skills are DA Skills Too: Overview of Soft Skills Workshop
Presented by Paul Wicker (Decision Strategies) and Jack Kloeber (Kromite) at 2011 DAAG Conference in Houston. Notes from a workshop on soft skills, including an example of eliciting risk attitude from decision makers.
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The Art of Making the Right Thing Happen
Presented by Rob Kleinbaum (RAK) at 2011 DAAG Conference in Houston. If DA practitioners want to become more effective at changing their company, they must become more adept at creating a culture of profitability.
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Discretization, Simulation, & Swanson’s (Inaccurate) Mean
Presented by Eric Bickel (University of Texas) at 2011 DAAG Conference in Houston. Discussion of errors that can occur from discretization of continuous distributions using common approximation methods.
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I love decision analysis. I just wish it didn’t involve people. Examples, Lessons, and Anecdotes about DA Communication
Presented by Stuart Harris (Decision Frameworks) at 2011 DAAG Conference in Houston. Examples of communication that we see as reasonable as DA practitioners, but which often had to change to successfully get the buy-in those in need of a decision/solution.
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Strategy, Portfolio & Risk Management: A Value-driven ERM Perspective
Presented by Strategic Decisions Group at 2010 DAAG Conference in Orlando. Overview of the key factors and challenges in Enterprise Risk Management.
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Insights from the Brain Sciences for Decision Professionals
Presented by Carl Spetzler (Strategic Decisions Group) at 2010 DAAG Conference in Orlando. Recent technological advances in brain imaging and insights into brain functioning provide new opportunities for uncovering the neurological underpinnings of mental functions including decision making.
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Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan and Decision Analysis
Presented by Jack Kloeber (Kromite) at 2010 DAAG Conference in Orlando. Discussion of Black Swan phenomena and how to incorporate into Decision Analysis.
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Building Organizational Decision Quality
Presented by Carl Spetzler (Strategic Decisions Group) at 2010 DAAG Conference in Orlando. Discussion of building and measuring organizational decision quality (ODQ), including survey results of leading companies.
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Convince or Persuade?
Presented by Ron Howard (Stanford) at 2010 DAAG Conference in Orlando. Discusses how a decision analyst's job is to provide people with an argument that will allow them to convince themselves
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From Discovery to Successful Implementation Predicting Organizational Change Preparedness
Presented by Phillip Decker (University of Houston) with Pat Leach, Christie McCormack, and David Skinner (Decision Strategies) at 2009 DAAG Conference in Indianapolis. Discussion of organizational change management and its relationship to the success during implementation of projects.
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IT Investments can be Compared to Other Investments
Presented by Jerry Lieberman (Decision Strategies) at 2009 DAAG Conference in Indianapolis. Discussion of how to capture the value of IT, comparable to other business investments.
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Using Decision Analysis to Improve Efficiency
Presented by Steve Uhl (Macway Uhl) at 2009 DAAG Conference in Indianapolis. Examples of using DA in project execution, applied to project scheduling issues.
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Best of Breed Portfolio Management -- Organizational Characteristics
Presented by Carl Spetzler (Strategic Decisions Group) at 2009 DAAG Conference in Indianapolis. Description of what it takes to execute effective portfolio value management.