Strategic Decision Making for Management

Sharper judgments, stronger decisions, and immediate impact for you and the organisation you lead.

Programme Content

During the highly interactive five days, participants will apply the Decision Canvas™ to strengthen their strategic decision-making capabilities across several key topics:

• Framing decision problems strategically and identifying hidden objectives
• Making better judgements and understanding the impact of cognitive bias
• Implementing powerful, targeted debiasing and choice architecture techniques
• Building bias-proofed decision scorecards
• Leveraging AI-augmented decision tools to enhance the quality of strategic decisions
• Learning from real-world cases of successful and failed decisions
• Improving organisational decision making by building processes, culture and capability

How you learn

Learning on this programme is immersive, interactive and deliberately challenging.

Over five days, you work through the Decision Canvas™, applying each stage to live decision challenges drawn from your peers' and your own professional context. You will also use AI-augmented decision tools throughout, exploring how emerging technology can strengthen your decision processes.

Faculty combine world-class academic expertise with extensive applied experience across the private and public sector. Sessions integrate decision simulations, role-play, group exercises and case studies, moving concepts from theory to practice in real time.

You also receive personal feedback on your decision-making competency, identifying your individual bias-susceptibility profile and areas for development.

Drawing on insights from management, economics, cognitive and decision sciences, the programme offers a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective on strategic decision making that no single-discipline business school can match.

This programme is designed for senior executives who carry responsibility for high-stakes, strategic decisions. Participants come from across the private, public and third sectors, representing industries and organisations from around the world.

Whether you lead a global corporation, a government body or a fast-growing enterprise, you will join a diverse cohort of peers navigating the same challenge: making better decisions in an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

At LSE we understand the complex interconnectedness of the challenges facing our world. As Europe’s foremost social science university, we know that it is only by managing this interconnectedness that you can secure sustainability and success in business. All of our world-class programmes are enriched by our renowned, interdisciplinary expertise. They integrate the understanding of economics, finance, social science and the interplay between disciplines that underscore business in our modern world. You emerge with a fully rounded understanding, and the leading-edge strategic tools to navigate complexity and spearhead meaningful change.  

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Entry requirements

All LSE executive education participants are required to have:

• Fluency in English, proficiency level or working knowledge of the language is essential
• A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s)
• Minimum five years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience, but we will consider those with less experience who have enjoyed an accelerated career path to a senior level.

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