Decision Analysis & Multi-Criteria Methods
Structure complex decisions with trees, weights, and utilities.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Data arrives in abundance, but decision analysis decisions still travel by opinion. The meetings are longer, the decks are thicker — the judgement is no better. The talent you hired leaves, the data you hold decays, and the gap between your decision analysis ambition and your capability widens every quarter. The programme teaches the craft behind decision analysis: asking the right question, demanding honest evidence, and landing the change.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Price the build, buy and partner options for decision analysis capability with real economics.
- Distinguish decision analysis automation opportunities from decisions where human judgement remains strategically important.
- Commission decision analysis work and interrogate its outputs with an operator’s confidence.
- Defend a decision analysis investment case before a board that has been disappointed before.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Decision Analysis Pilot at the Crossroads
A a multinational insurer has run a decision analysis pilot for eighteen months. Back-testing flatters it, the frontline disputes it, and the audit committee has begun asking who approved the spend. The pilot’s sponsor resigns the week before the board meets; the vendor offers a discounted scale-up contingent on signature this quarter.
Your decision: Scale the decision analysis pilot group-wide, rebuild it under new governance, or stop it and redirect the budget — knowing each option trades capability, credibility and careers differently.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a national revenue authority suspects its decision analysis spending is aimed at the wrong customers — and the intuition cannot yet be defended in the boardroom.
Dataset: Synthetic decision analysis panel for a national revenue authority: the tables, formats and quality gaps your team would find on day one.
Your task: Structure the data, segment and score it, and translate the model into one operating decision about where the money should go.
A decision analysis decision memo backed by an analysis you built and can defend.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build a twelve-month analytical and AI roadmap for your organisation: the value case, the data foundations, the governance, and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Value-versus-feasibility portfolio analysis
- • CRISP-DM analytical lifecycle
- • Model risk management principles (SR 11-7 adapted)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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