Advanced Certificate in Strategic Decision Principles

• Advanced Decision Analysis: This unit covers the theoretical foundations and practical applications of advanced decision analysis techniques and tools, including decision trees, influence diagrams, and simulation models.
• Strategic Risk Management: This unit explores the principles and practices of managing strategic risks, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring. It also covers the use of risk management frameworks and tools in various industries and contexts.
• Multi-Criteria Decision Making: This unit introduces the concepts and methods of multi-criteria decision making, which involves making decisions that involve multiple, often conflicting, objectives and criteria. It covers techniques such as weighted scoring, AHP, and PROMETHEE.
• Behavioral Economics and Decision Making: This unit examines the role of psychology and cognitive biases in decision making, and how these factors can impact the quality and effectiveness of strategic decisions. It also covers strategies for overcoming these biases and improving decision making processes.
• Game Theory and Strategic Thinking: This unit provides an introduction to game theory and its applications in strategic decision making. It covers topics such as strategic interactions, Nash equilibrium, and cooperative games, and how they can be used to analyze and predict the behavior of competitors and other stakeholders.
• Data Analytics for Strategic Decision Making: This unit covers the principles and practices of using data analytics to inform strategic decision making, including data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization. It also covers the use of machine learning algorithms and predictive models in strategic decision making.
• Strategic Decision Making in Practice: This unit applies the concepts and methods covered in the previous units to real-world case studies and scenarios. It provides students with the opportunity to practice and apply their strategic decision making skills in a variety of contexts and industries.
• Ethics and Corporate Governance in Strategic Decision Making: This unit examines the ethical and governance considerations that are relevant to strategic decision making, including issues such as corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory, and decision making transparency. It also covers the role of boards of directors and other governance structures in strategic decision making.