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Making DAMN Good Decisions is a full academic year of university courses on how to use decision analysis to improve both the process and content of decision making in business enterprises, non-profit entities, educational and health-care institutions, and government organizations.

Developed at Stanford University, these courses can be added to the curriculum of any institution of higher education.  The sequence of courses covers the 32 modules that are essential in making good decisions.  Each module covers a decision-making concept and its associated tools, and comprises four one-hour classes:  a lecture and discussion, an exercise or demonstration, an application example or case study, and a practice session.

The 32 modules are naturally grouped around four focal points:

  1. People -- how individuals, groups, and organizations build commitment, communication, creativity, challenges, and changes
  2. Process -- how leadership, management, and culture are used to develop values, visions, frames, decisions, and plans
  3. Models -- how choices, consequences, and preferences are captured in strategies, scenarios, structures, systems, and sensitivities
  4. Analysis -- how investments, enterprises, and portfolios are related to rewards, risks, uncertainty, evaluation, and appraisal