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Virtual Decision-Modelling Workshops for Creating the Future
SDP Free Webinar co-sponsored with DAS
Speakers: Larry Phillips, Prof. Emeritus, London School of Economics, & Director, Facilitations Ltd.
Patrick Sharry, AGSM Fellow, Business School, UNSW, Australia.
Paul Gordon, CEO & Technical Director, Catalyze Asia Pacific.
Edward Poot, Director New Zealand, Catalyze Asia Pacific.
Moderator: Associate Dean (Teaching) and Prof. of Management Science, Loughborough University, UK.
Feb 10, 2021 at 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET
Abstract:
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 will conclude the Webinar.
Speakers: Larry Phillips, Prof. Emeritus, London School of Economics, & Director, Facilitations Ltd.
Patrick Sharry, AGSM Fellow, Business School, UNSW, Australia.
Paul Gordon, CEO & Technical Director, Catalyze Asia Pacific.
Edward Poot, Director New Zealand, Catalyze Asia Pacific.
Moderator: Associate Dean (Teaching) and Prof. of Management Science, Loughborough University, UK.
Feb 10, 2021 at 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET
Abstract:
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 will conclude the Webinar.
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Feb 10, 2021
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM |
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Speakers
Dr Lawrence Phillips is an Emeritus Professor of Decision Science, at the London School of Economics, and a Director of Facilitations Limited. His research publications span behavioural decision theory, decision and risk analysis, Bayesian statistics, cultural differences in dealing with uncertainty, group processes, and the benefit-risk balance of drugs.
For organisations facing difficult decisions, he works as a process consultant, assisting individuals and teams dealing to arrive at an agreed way forward. He applies a wide variety of approaches to issues of strategic and operational management, option evaluation, prioritisation, resource allocation, and crisis management, with organisations in the public, private, and voluntary sectors.
Patrick Sharry 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 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.
Moderator
Prof. Alberto Franco 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 Research, Group Decision and Negotiation, The Leadership Quarterly, and Risk Analysis.
