Contemplating recursion and why test and trace isn't working
Back in the day I was involved in a couple of projects that modelled the financial strength of local and national governments for a rating agency. We built a system that on the face of it looked like Excel but did a lot of other stuff in the background to produce a detailed assessment of each entity. The system used something called a recursive algorithm to calculate the formulas.
A recursive algorithm effectively calls itself over and over again to process data. So in the case of formula calculation it would find all the components of a formula, then look for the components of the components, then carry on down the tree until the final set of components that don’t have other components is reached.
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5 Ways to turn your training budget from a waste of money to a brilliant investment
How many of us have been on a dodgy training course? As a very experienced training professional I am happy to confess to being really rather fussy when I attend other people training. I am probably your typical nightmare attendee, sitting at the back, or these days in the corner of a Zoom meeting carping away about how I could have done it better. And in the current climate, why would a savvy business want to waste money on training that fails to hit the mark or improve performance?
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Is your recruitment really 100%?
The right franchisees will generate higher sales, and if you are charging a percentage of those sales this directly improves your return. Weaker franchisees just don’t generate the same sales performance, but also don’t run their franchised business as well as they could – leading to higher staff turnover, lower customer satisfaction and more of their time spent firefighting and not enough spent on growing their and your business.
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