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Professional and Profession
Presented by Carl Spetzler (SDG), David Thompson (Eli Lilly) and H. Razavi (Kromite) at 2009 DAAG Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. Session 1- Professional and Profession. The content of this panel session included discussion of the Decision Professional Network, the Journal of Decision Analysis, pros and cons of certification and continuing education for DA professionals. Three slide sets are included that frame the discussions.
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Staying Relevant and Creating Enduring Value
Presented by Greg Parnell (Innovative Decisions) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Keynote address on the top 10 ways to maintain relevance and provide enduring value to your organization.
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Developing a Portfolio Management System: Values and Tradeoffs
Presented by Phil Beccue (Baxter) and Chris Dalton (Syncopation) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of development of portfolio process at Baxter, with tradeoffs inherent in designing the process.
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Evaluation and Decision-making
Presented by Jonathan Barzilai (Scientific Metrics) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Overview of Tetra software, which uses Preference Function Modeling to incorporate tradeoffs among objectives.
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Following a Lead: Analysis of in-licensing a follow-on oncology compound
Presented by Ajoy Chakrabarti (BristolMyersSquibb) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of a decision analysis applied to drug licensing problem.
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How to Convince a Large DoD Agency to Use Decision Analysis for Budgeting
Presented by David Caswell, William Hensley, Greg Parnell, Bill Klimack, Donald Buckshaw (Innovative Decisions) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of the use of multi-objective methods applied to complex defense budgeting problems.
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Metaphor Mapping
Presented by James Felli (Eli Lilly) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of the issues with analyzing and communication multi-dimensional data and results, and use of metaphors to simplify into manageable forms.
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Paired Value Comparison as a Consensus-building Tool for Multiparty, Multi-attribute Decisions
Presented by Dave Charlesworth (Chevron) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Application of multi-objective DA to an LNG problem in Angola, and illustration for using paired-value comparisons to achieve scoring and weighting of attributes.
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Portfolio Decision Quality Adds Value
Presented by Jeffrey Kiesler at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of portfolio process in terms of Decision Quality, including impacts of project estimation errors on selected projects.
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Quantifying and Mitigating Splitting Biases in Value Trees
Presented by Sarah K. Jacobi and Benjamin F. Hobbs (Johns Hopkins University) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of biases due to how objectives hierarchies are set up and assessed in multi-objective problems and how splitting the trees impacts results.
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Risk Analysis and Major Project Miscommunications
Presented by Paul McNutt (ConocoPhillips) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of communication problems that exist in many organizations that impact project implementation and value, and how to reduce those problems.
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Should You Trust Your Gut? Psychological weaknesses in human beings when we try to make decisions in the face of uncertainty
Presented by Pat Leach (Decision Strategies) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of some common biases and how to use your intellect and gut to sort it out.
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Using Decision Analysis and Behavioral Decision Making in Organizational Decisions
Presented by Rakesh Sarin (UCLA) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of how decision analysis and behavioral decision making are incorporated into the UCLA Anderson School programs.
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Valuing Information Plans
Presented by Ellen Coopersmith (Decision Frameworks) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Value of information analysis applied to gas discovery problem.
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Valuing Relevant Information When It May Be Ignored
Presented by Steven Greidinger at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Discussion of biases that can impact value of information analyses.
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Using Monte Carlo Simulations in Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis
Presented by George Huhn (Data Machines) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Application of Monte Carlo simulation to explore uncertainty in attribute weights and choice values.
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Who uses Decision Analysis, and Why?
Presented by Bob Clemen (Duke University) with Kelly See and Guy McCumber at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Survey results discussing psychological and organizational factors influencing decision process innovation, and the role of perceived threat to managerial power.
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Winning an Exacta: Want a Step Change in Investment Returns?
Presented by Jim Weller (Chevron) and Jerry Lieberman (Decision Strategies) at 2006 DAAG Conference in Baltimore. Innovating a step change in investment returns is no accident - key leverage point is project scope or opportunity in “pre-frame” which should include high value optionality.
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2 Stage Stochastic Programming Approach for R&D Project Selection
Presented by Krishna Chepuri (Johnson & Johnson) at 2005 DAAG Conference in Philadelphia. Application of a 2-stage stochastic integer programming approach to a 2-year portfolio selection problem.
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A Multi-Objective Market Assessment Process
Presented by Steve Mack (Whitney, Bradley & Brown) at 2005 DAAG Conference in Philadelphia. Multi-objective application to a market assessment at BFGoodrich.