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Robert specializes in strategic planning, project selection, planning & risk management, and project portfolio analysis & management. He provides solutions to clients’ complex problems by employing creative thinking and advanced quantitative business, engineering, and systems analysis. His client experience spans diverse industrial and commercial fields. Robert delivers analysis, decision support tools and systems, and training in decision-making and risk management with the goal to help his clients measure the value and the risk associated with the important decisions they face in order to make informed trade-offs and choices. He has also been a regular Analytica training resource for Lumina for decades. Robert graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering.

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01/08/2015 | Blogs, Risk & uncertainty

An interesting Christmas gift

Over the holidays, the New York Times delivered an unusual juxtaposition of headlines and content, and apparent lack of self-awareness, to illicit such a hearty chuckle from…

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07/11/2014 | Blogs, Business & finance, Portfolio management, Risk & uncertainty

The value of knowing what you don’t know

Few of us really like uncertainty. It fills us with dread. It frustrates our planning efforts. It makes analyzing its effects complex. After all, where in a spreadsheet do you put uncertain…

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03/07/2013 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Risk & uncertainty

Never tell me the odds?

In my last post, I discussed the meaning of expected value (EV) and how it’s useful for comparing the values of choices we could make when the outcomes we face with each choice …

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02/08/2013 | Blogs, Risk & uncertainty

A brief explanation of expected value

When helping people analyze the risks they face in complex decisions, I frequently receive requests for an explanation of expected value, as expected value is a measure commonly …

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