One of the target ares for expansion in the NorCal Region of NJB is the Sacramento Area. As it is a metro area I know only in a cursory sense, and I have almost no preconceived ideas where NJB might do well, it provides a blank canvass for a metric based analysis. [1]
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Taking a Corporate Approach to NJB Expansion
Current Process
The Northern California Region of National Junior Basketball (NJB) has reached a point where expansion has come to a halt. The last chapter created was Sequoia, when the Redwood chapter was split in half, five years ago. And even that expansion was as more the result of political needs for section balance than for adding any significant territory. There are many factors which have led up to this condition, but the one which stands out the most is the current model for expansion.
Up until this day NJB has created chapters when organic demand welled up in an area and a group of parents organized to break off and serve an under served and often adjacent territory of an existing chapter. This could be called a passive approach. The result has been a hodgepodge of chapters which range widely in geographical size, constituent demographics, number of teams fielded, and organizational structure and internal processes. New chapters have not been uniformly successful, as many of these chapters are able to consistently field the full range of Divisional and All-Net teams, and several struggle with finding sufficient gym time and revenue to keep operations going year on year. And yet within that haphazard approach have emerged impressively organized full service chapters with solid balance sheets and even auxiliary programs.
The Northern California Region of National Junior Basketball (NJB) has reached a point where expansion has come to a halt. The last chapter created was Sequoia, when the Redwood chapter was split in half, five years ago. And even that expansion was as more the result of political needs for section balance than for adding any significant territory. There are many factors which have led up to this condition, but the one which stands out the most is the current model for expansion.
Up until this day NJB has created chapters when organic demand welled up in an area and a group of parents organized to break off and serve an under served and often adjacent territory of an existing chapter. This could be called a passive approach. The result has been a hodgepodge of chapters which range widely in geographical size, constituent demographics, number of teams fielded, and organizational structure and internal processes. New chapters have not been uniformly successful, as many of these chapters are able to consistently field the full range of Divisional and All-Net teams, and several struggle with finding sufficient gym time and revenue to keep operations going year on year. And yet within that haphazard approach have emerged impressively organized full service chapters with solid balance sheets and even auxiliary programs.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Starting: Derivatives are Easy, Integrals are Hard
Despite working over 20 years in Silicon Valley as a Software Engineer this is my first crack at a technical blog. I am not even fully sure what it is I will write about. If nothing else this will give me a break from my other hobby ... writing a blog about interpreting ancient religious texts.
What inspired me to start this was an incident last night going over my son's calculus homework.It was a relatively simple integral, as integrals go:
∫ x (x +2) dx / (x3 + 3x2 -4)
The answer is to sort of work backwards, since the derivative is easy, after setting the right value for u
1/3 ∫ (3x2 +6x) dx / (x3 + 3x2 -4) where u = x3 + 3x2 -4 and therefore du /dx = 3x2 +6x
this simplifies the equation to 1/3 ∫ du / u = 1/3 ln | u | + c
then substituting back again we get the final answer 1/3 ln | x3 + 3x2 -4 | + c
No big deal, but really all I did was simplify the equation to a form where I knew the derivative to the values in the integral. Derivatives are easy, integrals are hard.
I hope to use this blog to help simplify computing issues to simple doable ones. Just for fun here is a video on substitution for integral calculus
What inspired me to start this was an incident last night going over my son's calculus homework.It was a relatively simple integral, as integrals go:
∫ x (x +2) dx / (x3 + 3x2 -4)
The answer is to sort of work backwards, since the derivative is easy, after setting the right value for u
1/3 ∫ (3x2 +6x) dx / (x3 + 3x2 -4) where u = x3 + 3x2 -4 and therefore du /dx = 3x2 +6x
this simplifies the equation to 1/3 ∫ du / u = 1/3 ln | u | + c
then substituting back again we get the final answer 1/3 ln | x3 + 3x2 -4 | + c
No big deal, but really all I did was simplify the equation to a form where I knew the derivative to the values in the integral. Derivatives are easy, integrals are hard.
I hope to use this blog to help simplify computing issues to simple doable ones. Just for fun here is a video on substitution for integral calculus
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