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User Guide Overview

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to become proficient with Bear Decisions and start going home on time!

Whether you're a planner, a budget analyst, a manager, an executive or just an excel power user, this guide will help you master scenario planning, decision analysis and risk analysis within your existing Excel workflows.

What's Covered

📊 Creating Analyses

Learn how to set up analyses in Bear Decisions, define decision and uncertainty areas, add variables, configure alternative values, set up tracked results, and their referenced goals.

📈 Interpreting Results

Master the art of reading Bear Decisions dashboards, and extracting actionable insights from your analysis.

⚙️ Settings & Configuration

Configure Bear Decisions for your specific needs.

✨ Best Practices

Learn techniques for creating accurate, reliable analyses that drive better decisions.

Key Skills You'll Develop

By working through this guide, you'll learn to:

  • Define Decision Areas: Identify and configure the choices you control in your models
  • Model Uncertainty: Represent unknowns with appropriate deterministic quantitiative values
  • Interpret Scenario Results: Read dashboards and extract insights from thousands of scenarios
  • Make Data-Informed Decisions: Use quantitative insights to improve outcomes and reduce risk
  • Communicate Findings: Present analysis results in clear, compelling ways to stakeholders

How Bear Decisions Works With Excel

Bear Decisions is designed to enhance your existing Excel work, not replace it:

  • Keep Your Models: Work with spreadsheets you've already built and invested time in
  • Add-In Integration: Bear Decisions runs as an Excel add-in, accessible from your Home ribbon
  • Scenario Generation: Automatically test hundreds of combinations of your decisions and uncertainties
  • Back-Population: Push your chosen scenario values back into Excel for detailed analysis
  • Dashboard Analysis: View results in interactive dashboards while keeping your Excel model intact

Next Steps

Ready to dive in? Start with Creating Analyses to build your foundation, or jump straight to an Example Analysis to see how it works.