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Performance and Metrics: Approach and Framework
by Brian Flannery. 
Posted in Talent, Innovation. Tagged with bioscience, biotech, blogging, metrics, strategy, sustainability, universities, wired explanation.
Mary Ellen Clark, WIRED Bio-1 and Aaron Fichter, Ph.D, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development take a look at how to measure the effectiveness of your implementation strategies.
Some of the key questions addressed include:
- Are you feeling any pain over the time/resources it takes to collect data and report on it?
- Are you confident the data you report is accurate
Bio-1 is in Central New Jersey, and comprises 5 counties and 4 workforce investment boards. Some initiatives they have focused on include: life science career campaign, career academies, residential programs, increasing bioscience workforce development with the 'Flak Jackets to Lab Coats' program to reintegrate returning vets into the workforce, enhancing linkages between education and industry via the web.
Metrics Steps:
Plan and Prepare (critical few, leverage/impact), Develop a Framework (strategy/alignment, balance, data collection), Development (Strategy ALignment,Balance, Op. Definitions), Deployment (Vertical alignment, accountability transfer), Collect and Analyze Data (Review Process, Actions, Project ID), Review Process (status, opportunities, projects), Plan and Prepare (Strategic Objectives, Development Team).
Operational Definitions:
Measure Owner: Who will report on this metric
Data Owner: Who will collect and summarize data
Formula: How is this derived?
Benchmark/Goal: What is the target? If you have benchmarks from comparable regions include them here.
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New Mexico looks to Bring Home its Talent
by Gardner Carrick. 
Posted in Collaboration, Talent. Tagged with community colleges, sustainability, universities.
There was a nice article in this week's New Mexico Business Journal about one component of the WIRED Initiative in that region.
A new initiative aims to address the looming work force shortage by helping connect New Mexico students and graduates who have left the state with job opportunities here.
The initiative is obtaining funding from a $50,000 seed grant from the French Family of Cos. and $400,000 that is part of a larger $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The program was initiated with a decision by French to donate $100,000 to the community in honor of its 100th anniversary, Swan said. The idea was to improve what he calls the "AIR quality" in Albuquerque -- shorthand for access, innovation and relationships.
The full article can be found here .
