When the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Business Analytics launched last year, it laid out its mission to connect industry partners with the university’s talented pool of students and faculty. The goal is two-fold: to help companies harness the power of big data and employ analytics tools to create value for their business, as well as to provide educational opportunities for students to build their capacity to manage and analyze data through real-world projects.
This summer the center secured its first large-scale partnership with Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., an Arlington, Virginia-based solutions specialist company focused on federal data—gathering, storing, cleaning, analyzing, visualizing, reporting on, and ultimately making it meaningful for stakeholders and their constituents.
The executive team, including Chief Operating Officer Jeff Spears, visited the center to kick-off the partnership and meet with the interns working on their projects, other students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders. In August, Synectics hosted the center for three days in Washington, D.C., to learn more about the company and the city, and to share their progress on the analysis projects. This was the first time the students interns had visited D.C.
