Decision Mechanics, in partnership with Prism Decision Systems, have just completed a benchmarking mobile web-app for the New York Center for Rural Schools. The app, SchoolBenchmarker, allows school leaders to benchmark their schools against similar, but higher performing, schools. SchoolBenchmarker is an HTML5/CSS3/jQuery Mobile application that draws data from a RESTful ASP.NET MVC 3 … [Read more...]
CohortTracker™ deployed by the Central New York Regional Information Center
The Central New York Regional Information Center (CNYRIC) has now deployed CohortTracker™ to help their schools identify students who are at risk of not graduating. CNYRIC serves 50 school districts and four Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) across eight counties in the central region of New York State. … [Read more...]
BetMachine 1.1.0 released
An update to BetMachine has just been released. You can download it from the App Store now. Enhancements include: Probability conversion added to the Odds Converter Graphics updated for Retina displays Place terms of 1/1 are now supported in the Returns Calculator … [Read more...]
Living in a "Vuca" world
In the March 2012 edition of Director magazine, Kevin Roberts, CEO of advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, is quoted as saying, We live in a ’Vuca’ world—a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous but British companies keep having strategy meetings! What the f***? Indeed. And it's not just British companies. Organizations need to stop having strategy … [Read more...]
When spreadsheets go bad
In the late '90s, I had a colleague who was fond of saying, "When an operations analyst encounters a problem, he opens a spreadsheet. Now he has two problems..." Indeed. If you are responsible for a project that has a spreadsheet as a deliverable, go and suspend it now. Yes, now. Go on. When you return I'll explain why you had to do it. Done? OK, I'll continue. First, let … [Read more...]