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Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management improvement methods and business analytics. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA with honors from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974. Gary is he in the Cooperstown NY Baseball Hall of Fame for the “Oldest Computer Baseball Game” which was result of his 1970 junior year operations research game theory course project at Cornell.



Realizing a Kid’s Dream of Computerized Baseball Realizing a Kid’s Dream of Computerized Baseball

Realizing a Kid’s Dream of Computerized Baseball

Growing up in the 1950s, we did not have PlayStations, Nintendos, or Xboxes—no video games at all. We did not have 150 channels on cable or satellite TV or VHS movies or DVDs. We had no surround sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, and no Internet. But we did have our imaginations, and we made up games. One game I played was dice baseball. In college in 1970, I programmed a basebal...[Read More]