ADVEN T U RE S I N C O NS U LT I NG
What’s a defense
consulting company
doing in sports?
BY STEPHEN CHAMBAL
he Perduco Group is a small
defense consulting company in Dayton, Ohio, near
Wright Patterson Air Force
Base (WPAFB). The company specializes
in high-end data analytics with core competencies in data architecting, business
intelligence and business analytics. Perduco was formed in 2011 and has grown
rapidly to 21 employees. Twenty of those
employees are working in the defense
space, and one, Dr. Jacob Loeffelholz,
is the lead for a strategic push into the
sports domain. Now, what is a defense
consulting company doing with a director
for sports analytics? The easy answer is
simple: sports are fun. However, the real
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answer is more tied to core capabilities,
business opportunity, two chance encounters and a willingness to believe in
what you’re doing!
BIG, UGLY DATA
Perduco’s data competency is tied
to integrating and aggregating big, ugly
data. This includes the use of enterprise
data architecting to build the data infrastructure required when solving client
problems. On the analytics side, the company specializes in advanced or predictive
analytics and has broad-based expertise
and experience in the field of operations
research (O.R.). This core capability in
O.R., coupled with an ability to visualize
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