the evolution of skill capacity
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MARQUETTA COMPANY HUMAN PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND SKILLS ASSESSMENT
THE EVOLUTION OF SKILL CAPACITY©
The flexibility built into Skill Capacity© can truly be considered the result of that old rule, “necessity is the mother of invention”. Skill Capacity actually evolved from a need to be able to approach multiple segments of the athletic industry, and it now has the opportunity to blossom into a very significant research, data gathering and learning/teaching tool for many extremely vital industries.
During the development phase of Skill Capacity as an athletic skills evaluation tool, it became evident that the rules and logic being created and applied in the athletic talent selection process were similar in scope, and in many cases more detailed, to the logic being applied and utilized in the commercial, government and healthcare skills assessment and performance evaluation markets.
The tangible products of a company and how they perform, or the tangible performance aspects of a human being can be identified and graded relatively easily, provided that objective evaluation criteria is prevalent.
The intangible aspects that may affect performance are more difficult to identify, define objectively and then grade. People are dynamic by nature, like the stock market, etc. Market speculators, health care providers, HR recruiters and athletic coaches can have a difficult time with the extremely subjective nature of this process, and in many cases make the final decision on a “hunch”, with limited supporting data based on their requirements.
In order for Marquetta to be able to sell-into multiple “vertical” markets (athletics, commercial HR, military recruitment, law enforcement training, etc) with one product, we were forced to re-create Skill Capacity as a scalable template that allowed our consumer to pro-actively identify and define the criteria they required for their decision making regarding personnel. Why should the consumer be forced to evaluate personnel based on the functionality dictated in a software program developed by a third party?
The template concept is unique and now provides our customer with the ability to identify, define and grade the intangible or tangible performance criteria they require, and allow for both the subjective and objective criteria to be considered and quantified.
By tangible, we are referring to more of the technical and tactical disciplines, motor skills, muscle performance, etc., that can affect performance. By intangible, we’re referring to the barely negligible qualities, i.e., behavioral, physical or physiological characteristics that may have an effect on all of the other criteria being graded, i.e., desire, maturity, ability to identify characteristics, etc. How does physiology affect the psychological and technical performance of a candidate? Can emotional control be defined? Skill Capacity addresses these requirements directly.
Skill Capacity allows these disparate characteristics to be evaluated on the same scale, objectively, as per your requirement in a decision support role.
The resultant database of information created by our consumer after years of research and data gathering is now a valuable historical archive that can be mined and randomly evaluated and analyzed for generations.
BARRY M. [email protected]
MARQUETTA COMPANY HUMAN PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND SKILLS ASSESSMENT
Data mining uncovers patterns in data and allows for predictive techniques and metrics to be formulated. These patterns play a critical role in the decision support process because they reveal areas for process improvement. Using data mining, regression analysis, etc., organizations can increase the profitability of their interactions with customers and improve risk management using their own unique criteria. The patterns uncovered using data mining help organizations make better and timelier decisions.
Data mining software can be viewed in two categories: data mining tools and data modeling applications. Data mining tools allow for a number of techniques that can be applied to any business problem to locate data. Data modeling applications, on the other hand, embed techniques inside an application customized to address a specific business problem.
Both data mining tools and data modeling applications are valuable however, and an increasingly large number of organizations are using data mining tools and data modeling applications together in an integrated environment for predictive analytics. Skill Capacity© utilizes both processes by creating a consistent but flexible methodology for collecting and analyzing data in a mobile/remote and customizable application format to aid in the decision support process.
BARRY M. [email protected]