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August 21, 2009
Boulder County Business Report: Ten companies receive IQ Awards
By Business Report Staff
Ten companies received IQ Awards Thursday evening, Aug. 20, at the Boulder
County Business Report's 10th annual IQ (Innovation Quotient) Awards held at the Lionsgate
Event Center in Lafayette. Full text >>
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July 21, 2008
Diversity insight: The path to diversity: through the computer?
Could software solve your diversity problems? The National Science Foundation thinks so. The federal agency awarded a $450,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant to the Boulder, Colorado, tech firm OptTek Systems, which plans to build a software application that can improve an organization’s ability to strategically plan and manage its workforce.
Issues such as limited talent or an aging workforce "are changes companies are going to have to contend with so they can plan out how their workforce is going to evolve and better strategize how to meet their financial goals," says OptTek chief development officer Jay April. He says the benefits of the software, called OptForce, include integration of strategic business planning with workforce planning, cost-effective achievement of diversity goals, and increased confidence in forecasting business performance. Full text >>
May 30, 2008
Denver Post: Boulder-based OptTek focuses on workforce
The small firm uses grants to create "holistic" software solutions.
By Kimberly S. Johnson
Companies contending with an aging workforce and looking for new ways to attract and retain a diverse workforce may one day turn to a tiny Boulder software company for help. Full text >>
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The War For Talent Is Real: OptTek Launches Workforce Planning Software; Completes Successful CH2M Hill Pilot
Denver, CO, July 12, 2010 – Workforce planning is becoming increasingly important as baby boomers head into retirement and the much smaller Generation Y enters the workforce. Even in a slow economy, workforce planning is essential to mitigating risk and making sure that long-term business plans provide the appropriate context to make the right short-term business decisions. Full text >>
OptTek Receives NSF Award to Assist Native American Reservation Communities In Planning Economic Development Programs
Boulder, CO, June 17, 2010 – OptTek Systems, Inc. a Boulder optimization technology firm announced it was awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovative Research grant by the National Science Foundation to create a robust economic development software planning tool and entrepreneurial education curriculum to improve economic development on the Native American Reservations. This model will help the reservations achieve both their economic and their community goals. With our partner, Spirit of the Sun, and selected representatives of the reservations, OptTek will build a time-based simulation model to closely represent economic and community dynamics. OptTek will establish specific metrics in collaboration with tribal leaders to be used to evaluate investment and economic development scenarios simulated with the tool. Full text >>
OptTek Systems, Inc. Receives $750,000 NIH Small Business R&D Award
To Develop Data Security Software
Boulder, CO, March 29, 2010 – OptTek Systems, Inc., was awarded a $750,000 R&D grant by the United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The objective of this grant is the development of an innovative technique to avoid disclosure of confidential data in public use tabular data. The proposed technique, to be delivered through a combination of software and services, called Optimal Data Switching (OS), overcomes the limitations and disadvantages found in currently deployed disclosure limitation methods.
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