After moving into our new offices in Maridalsveien 15e we now hold all our courses in Oslo at Mathallen. There we have spacious classrooms and it is an inspiring environment for both learning and making new contacts with fellow participants. We believe that great learning is also associated with great food in a pleasant environment. Therefore, we usually serve a small snack from Handwerk during the breaks. For lunch we get served food from Barramon, Norway's only Pintxos bar or Scandinavia, which is a Nordic food concept. On our 2-day course, we invite you to dinner at Hitchhiker where they serve street food-inspired food that is both exciting and filling. Food and soft drinks are always included in our course fee.
Read more about our most popular course here (the next course dates are 20-21 June and 23-24 August) or see the complete course overview at the bottom of this page. We also arrange courses on request and can of course also hold courses in other premises if it is more practical.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Vulkan is centrally located in Oslo between St. Hanshaugen in the west, Grünerløkka in the east and Alexander Kielland's place in the north. The area is a fusion of culture and creative business with lots to experience within culture, education, nightlife, food and drink.
Trams 11, 12 and 13 stop at Schous place. Here you can easily go down to Nordre gate and across the bridge to Vulkan. Bus 54 and 34 stop in Møllerveien. Go down Møllerveien and turn into Dansens Hus. Subway / train: If you want to take a subway or train, it is only a 15 minute stroll from the Railway Market.
If you come by car, you can park in Vulkan P-house, with over 450 parking spaces. Here are also charging offers for electric cars with 100 safe and modern charging stations. The entrance to the P-house is from Maridalsveien, at Westerdals.
Do you need accommodation? We recommend the Scandic hotel - it is clean, nice and you look straight down at Mathallen where the course is held. Remember to state the discount code you receive when signing up.
DecisionNodes is located here - you may have visited us earlier? In the floor below us you will find Handwerk, serving wonderful pastries and our regular sweets supplier for our courses.
Here the course is held, in well lit rooms on the second floor inside Mathallen. Enter the main entrance and take the stairs (or the elevator) onto the second floor. The staircase is in the middle of the corridor once you have entered the outside glass door. Upstairs on the second floor you will see signs giving further directions. Are you out early? Take a look inside Mathallen first.
OUR COURSES
General courses
S01 – Combine experience, intuition and analysis
6. October 20152-day course: Learn the fundamentals of decision analysis. How to structure different types of decision problems. Identify key aspects, main value drivers and relevant risks. Optimise sequences of decisions and possible outcomes. Evaluate costs and benefits of data gathering programs. Identify real options, non-linearities and strategic values. Present and communicate decision alternatives. … Read More
SC01 – Framing and problem structuring
6. October 20151-day course: Learn different framing and problem structuring techniques to increase the likelihood of capturing what is important early on, align team members and maximise value creation. Learn how to identify key decisions and relevant risks and uncertainties as early as possible. Present and communicate decision alternatives, main value drivers, risks and recommendations. … Read More
SC02 – Decision modelling for insight
6. October 20151-day course: Learn how to build decision models to increase the likelihood of capturing what is important early on. Construct models to reflect the problem structure for various decision problems. Course participants are guided through the process of building a simple decision model using Excel by Microsoft and @Risk by Palisade*. The model is used in team exercises to illustrate the value of proper modelling, insightful result plots and best practice workflows. … Read More
SC03 – Evaluating real options
6. October 20151-day course: Learn how to use a structured approach to identify real options in different types of projects. Incorporate the real options into the initial problem structure and estimate the value of the options. Weigh the cost of incorporating flexibility into the project against the probability and value potential of capturing upside. … Read More
SC04 – Decision analysis for managers
7. October 20151-day course: Learn how to interpret and gain insight from decision modelling results, establish best-practice workflows, use different types of economic indicators, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant project risks and optimise projects and portfolios under capital constraints. Examples are used to illustrate how high quality decisions derive from the right combination of thought, collaboration, computation and communication. … Read More
SC05 – Evaluating new technologies
5. October 20151-day course: Learn how to utilise technology readiness levels, technology novelty categories and decision/governance processes to evaluate and compare relevant technologies. Calculate key technology risks and incorporate them into the problem structure. Communicate main value drivers for the technology options as well as for the project as a whole and compare competing alternatives in a consistent way. Learn to differentiate between enabler and enhancer technologies and value potential on project and portfolio level. … Read More
Oil & energy courses
F01 – Multi-disciplinary field trip
9. January 20165-day field trip: Learn how to extract critical geological information and understand its implication for volume estimation, producability, drainage strategy, drilling strategy, development concept and value. Identify key value drivers and contribute to constructive multi-disciplinary discussions at the intersection between geo-modelling and project modelling using decision models and decision analysis methodology. … Read More
E01 – Exploration and appraisal projects
10. October 20151-day course: Learn how to estimate the economic value of a prospect based on an optimised sequence of decisions and possible outcomes. Adapt a fit for purpose approach given the incomplete data availability and the fact that many of the assumptions made are often conceptual and based on analogues. Estimate geological and commercial risks and evaluate the costs and benefits of appraisal and other data gathering programs. … Read More
E02 – Early phase projects
10. October 20151-day course: Learn how to bring a discovery from appraisal to concept selection and development. Learn how all elements from reservoir to market can be included in the analysis and how different appraisal programs, development alternatives and drainage strategies can be compared. Present and communicate decision alternatives, main value drivers, risks and recommendations. … Read More