Devil’s Advocate Auditor – Executive Decision Making 2014

Devil s Advocate Auditor Executive Decision Making 2014 is a conference that provides practical skills and tools that Devil`s Advocate Auditors can use, including

• Assessing Analogues and Antilogs
• Adopting Chain Analysis
• Calibration Curves
• Business Model Analysis Grid
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
• Competition Value-Added Matrix
• Positive Deviance
• James-Stein Estimator
• Risk Calculators and Risk Matrices
• Project Attractiveness Score Sheet
• Vulnerability Assessment
• SERVO Analysis

how to avoid falling into decision making pitfalls such as:

• Risk Homeostasis
• Confirmation Bias
• The Delusion of Single Explanations
• Illusory Correlation
• Conjunction Fallacy
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Shreckenberg`s Self-Destroying Prognosis
• The Illusion of Brian Plasticity
• Munchausen Management Syndrome
• The Hawthorne Effect
• Application of Learning
• Probablistic Contamination

Devil`s Advocate Auditors can enhance the quality of their employers decision making in terms of:

• Recommending methods to ensure that sufficient discussion and debate precedes proposed corporate transactions
• Determining the soundness of business models of contemplated business partners or investment targets
• Benchmarking the integrity of the data under review in the context of launching a new product
• Running business proposals through a gauntlet of risk management tools
• Assessing how much of the success of the person your client is considering partnering with, is due to skill versus luck
• Gauging the point at which the acquisition data represents diminishing marginal returns
• Ensuring that business plans are vetted with appropriate precedents, as well as, against both analogues and antilogs
• Pointing out decision making traps in consideration of contemplated acquisitions