Turn changing evidence into decisions that can be tested, delivered, and recovered.
In development. Courses, assessments, and awards are not yet available.
A RANGE WITH A CLEAR STANDARD
Each Advanced Specialist credential names one field. Tall In The Saddle recognizes expert practice across the larger decision system.
Depth in one named field, demonstrated through practical work.
Original work that connects the fields and holds up when the problem changes.
THE RANGE CREDENTIAL
Expert practice across a consequential decision system.
Candidates show depth in three specializations across three clusters, then prove they can connect all four clusters in original work. Equivalent evidence may satisfy the entry requirements. Every candidate completes the same synthesis, unfamiliar disruption, and defense.
Three specialist standards met.
Three different clusters represented.
All four clusters connected in one original system.
A new failure examined through evidence and defense.
Grid-issued and assessed. Not academic credit, licensure, external accreditation, or a benefit conferred by purchase.
Choose three specializations from three clusters. The final synthesis must connect all four. This illustration does not enroll or assess you.
THE SPECIALIZATION CATALOG
Start with the decision you need to make. Each field stands on its own and leads to a scoped Advanced Specialist assessment.
What is happening?
Evidence, uncertainty, and the signals behind a decision.
Evaluate demand signals, reconcile forecasts, and state what the evidence can support.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Baseline forecasts, top-down reconciliation, calibration, and bounded experiments
Operations Decision Systems: Forecasting & Demand
Design reproducible scenarios and experiments that compare policies under uncertainty.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
A/B experiments, staged choices, queues, and resource behavior
Operations Decision Systems: Simulation & Experimentation
What should we do?
Constraints, tradeoffs, and a defensible course of action.
Turn resources, calendars, constraints, and disruptions into reviewable operating plans.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Product mix, project loading, and appointment capacity
Operations Decision Systems: Capacity & Scheduling
Choose and defend allocation methods, including feasible, optimal, and bounded results.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Portfolio selection, perishable allocation, blends, and cutting plans
Operations Decision Systems: Optimization & Allocation
How does work move?
Inventory, networks, timing, and connected resources.
Model inventory identity, timing, availability, replenishment, and controlled transitions.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Balance projections, policy, cycle counts, uncertain demand, and cutover
Operations Decision Systems: Inventory & Replenishment
Connect routes, capacity, geography, and shared dependencies to operating decisions.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Lane contribution, freight audit, supplier dependencies, and facility choices
Operations Decision Systems: Logistics & Network Decisions
How do we stay sound?
Reconciliation, disruption, recovery, and governed change.
Reconcile records, surface conflicting evidence, and keep proposed corrections governed.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Cash, inventory, intercompany, payroll, and evidence-based correction
Operations Decision Systems: Operational Control & Reconciliation
Inject disruption, repair plans, recover state, and defend decisions after facts change.
Field guide · Labs · Assessment · Team delivery
Supplier stress, cash gaps, product cutover, and network disruption
Operations Decision Systems: Resilience, Disruption & Recovery
Source mappings reflect the current book outlines and prepared recipe catalog. Final editions, labs, and assessment blueprints remain subject to editorial and pilot review.
THE BOOKS ARE THE SOURCE
Mount Up provides the foundation. High Tail supplies the advanced methods. Blaze The Trail brings them into recognizable business cases.
THREE BOOK LAYERS · ONE SPECIALIST LIBRARYThe shared discipline for reading, explaining, structuring, and handing off a model.
The advanced methods for evidence, planning, simulation, optimization, logistics, and recovery.
Recognizable business cases that move those methods into work people already understand.
A future focused publication that makes one field independently useful and teachable.
FOUR WAYS IN
Choose the support that fits the work. The credential standard stays the same.
A focused introduction to one field, shaped from the larger library and made to stand on its own.
Worked cases, controlled variations, and checks that turn reading into repeatable practice.
Structured learning, feedback, and project support leading to a separately governed assessment.
A private cohort around shared operating problems, with individual evidence and assessment.
Qualified practitioners may apply with equivalent evidence. Payment can buy access, support, lab capacity, and review time. It never buys the credential. Formats and pricing will follow the pilots.