"We won because we had the right data," Flowers says. "The city's data is good and we used it in the right way."

"All we did was prioritize," he adds. "It was immediately actionable intelligence. That's why it works."

With the value of data-driven decision-making proven, Flowers says he has three goals to achieve before Mayor Bloomberg leaves office in January 2014:

-- Establish citywide analytics focused on leveraging agency resources more efficiently and effectively

-- Grow and enable the culture of data-driven resource allocation at the agency level