Overview of Prism Decision Systems, LLCSean Brady

607.771.5411sean.brady@prismdecision.com

Sean Brady’s work experience

• President, Prism Decision Systems, LLC• Board member, United Health Services Hospitals,

Inc.• Board chair, United Medical Management, Inc.• Manager-Strategic Planning, Generation - NYSEG• Teacher of English, grades 7 – 14• Presenter on planning and creativity

Mission

• Provide dynamic group processes and state-of-the-art systems to accelerate group decision-making

Vision• Maximize the human potential of collaborative

groups to make and implement decisions that achieve their preferred future

App Development

App development

• Looking to standardize your decision-making processes? To put your data to work to make informed decisions? To have access to the information you need via your iPhone® or iPad®? You can – using our custom application development services.

CohortTracker™

• An early warning web app that allows superintendents, principals, guidance counselors and other staff to track the real-time status of secondary students vis-à-vis New York State's graduation requirements.

• Tracking is by individual student, total cohort, and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) subgroup.

Budget Playground

• iPad® app built for Cornell University.

• “Data store” delivers up to 16 years of audited historical financial trend data.

• Allows school districts to create multi-year budget scenarios.

• They can then modify those scenarios in real-time to help boards of education agree to budgets that will be acceptable to district stakeholders.

schoolbenchmarking.com

• Find benchmark or best-in-class schools.

• Set and justify aggressive improvement targets.

• Seek the programs, strategies and practices necessary to achieve those targets.

• Allocate available resources.

Tools Overview

Prism’s Group Decision Support System™

• Let the group vote anonymously using radio response keypads.

• View the results immediately.• Minimize unproductive

discussion of disagreement.• Maximize productive discussion

of disagreement.• Make the decision.• Move forward aligned, with

consensus.

Frontier Analyst®

• Convert a unit's inputs and outputs into a single measure of efficiency.

• Identify units operating relatively efficiently and those that are not.

• Set realistic, peer-based improvement targets for lower performing units.

• Identify benchmark performers to guide "best practice."

The Concept System®

• Powerful, Internet-enabled idea mapping and rating tool.

• Brainstorm, sort and rate ideas on the Web.

• Web-based strategic planning, project management, surveys, focus groups, needs assessments and market research.

Solutions Overview

Strategic planning

• Build a rich information base.• Experience a dynamic, creative

planning process based on “future pull.”

• Using our full suite of decision support tools• Accelerate mission and vision

formulation.• Agree to performance targets.• Understand priority strategies.• Allocate resources.

Strategic Profile

Performance

Importance

1

2

3

45

6

7

8

910

Strategic profiling

• Helps distinguish among high- and low-leverage strategies -- and therefore identify immediate priorities.

• The planning team does not consider all strategies to be equal and does target limited resources at opportunities providing the “greatest bang for the buck.”

K-12 school improvement planning

• Set up an annual academic improvement process that is intentional, information-driven and repeatable.

• Ensure a clear focus on priorities.

• Allocate resources optimally at both the district and individual school level.

Collaborative decision support

• Identify and weight criteria.

• Assess options against weighted criteria.

• Complete cost-benefit analyses.

• Complete value analyses.

• Make a group decision-- in real time!

Strategic resource allocation

• Align or reallocate resources with newly prioritized strategy• Assess the degree to

which each function contributes to each strategy.

• Assesses the gap between the current and required resources to implement each strategy.

Needs assessments

• Gain insight into stakeholders' emerging needs and motivations.

• Speed creative strategic response.

• Face-to-face or web-based.

Sample engagements

• Arnot Medical Services• CCSD, Columbia-Greene,

DOT, First Heritage, GHS Federal Credit Unions

• Greater Boston Visitor and Convention Bureau

• Johnson & Johnson, Inc.• McDonalds, Inc.• Mercy Health System of

Philadelphia• National Institute for Health

• New & Improved, Inc.• Science Applications International Corporation• Standard and Poors, Inc.• Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Labs)• The Los Angeles Times• Times Mirror Corporation• Union Volunteer Emergency Squad• United Health Services• Washington, DC Metro Area Transit Authority• Westwood International

Sample education engagements

• Arizona State University• Arizona Department of Ed• Binghamton City Schools• Broome-Tioga, Erie 2, GST, Herkimer, SCT, SW, TST, WFL, BOCES• Chenango Forks Schools• City School District of Albany• Cornell University• Dryden Central Schools• Elmsford Central Schools• Greenburgh 7 Central Schools• Ithaca City School District

• Johnson City Schools• Lockport City School District• New York State Ed. Dept.• Rural Schools Association of NYS• Southern-Cayuga Central Schools• Syracuse City School District• Syracuse University• The Magellan Foundation• Union Endicott Central Schools• Whitney Point Central Schools