Strategy & Foresight
Decision-Making
Better decisions, made and defended in the room
A practical programme on how managers actually decide: evidence, bias, group dynamics, and accountability for the choice made.
Placeholder: This is an outline page. Full programme detail, including session structure, indicative schedule and case material, is in preparation.
The challenge
What this programme addresses
Organisations invest heavily in analysis and comparatively little in the quality of the decision act itself: who decides, on what evidence, under what pressure, and how the reasoning is recorded and reviewed.
Audience
Who it is for
- Management and leadership cohorts
- Cross-functional teams that decide together
- Postgraduate and executive-education participants
Outcomes
What participants can do afterwards
- 01
Separate decision quality from outcome luck
- 02
Identify and counter common biases in group decisions
- 03
Structure a decision so that reasoning is explicit and reviewable
- 04
Decide under time pressure with incomplete information
Learning experience
How it is taught
Exercise-led sessions with short conceptual inputs, live decision tasks, and debriefs focused on the reasoning behind each choice.
- Live decision exercises under time constraint
- Group deliberation with observed dynamics
- Debrief on reasoning quality rather than outcome
- Transfer planning into the participant's own decision forums
Possible formats
- Half-day workshop
- Two-day intensive
- Module within a wider leadership programme
- In-house programme
Evidence & examples
Where this has been delivered
Draws on Dr Levermore's decision-focused teaching at AIT, HKUST and Liverpool, including the Management Game and responsible management decision-making courses. Full programme detail is in preparation.
Faculty
Who delivers it
Led by Dr Roger Levermore.
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Other programmes
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