Growing New Jobs and Investment
Integrating an Entrepreneurial Development Focus in Your Community
Improving Existing Industry Programs
Analysis of Existing-Business Data
Integrating an Entrepreneurial Development Focus in Your Community
Economic
development boards and other community leaders want to understand how to
foster entrepreneurship as a development strategy - how to begin it and
strengthen it. We offer educational presentations and technical assistance
to empower community leaders and local economic development boards as to
the importance of entrepreneurial development to their economic development
programs and the local and regional economies. We provide assistance in
integrating strategies into local economic development plans. Benefits:
- Raising the capacity of your local boards to fully understand and integrate entrepreneurial development
- Becoming actively engaged in creating an entrepreneurial climate in your community
Improving Existing Industry Programs
Although
most new jobs come from existing businesses, many business owners and
managers feel neglected by their local economic development organizations.
Further, local development organizations frequently do not get valuable
information about its businesses' plans or insights into what is happening
in those businesses' industries.
We work with you and other members of your leadership
team to organize or reinvigorate an effective existing business program.
Based on our experience and knowledge, we can train those who will actually
make the business calls. We help compile the results of those calls and
recommend how to best utilize the information developed during those calls.
We can also assist in designing and organizing business recognition events
that are appropriate for your community/area.
Benefits:
- Quickly having a practical existing business program in place
- Securing information that may serve to identify your timely opportunities for critical business assistance
- Gaining foresight that
can help guide your future community and economic development actions
Analysis of Existing-Business Data
Busy
development professionals and volunteers may not recognize much of the useful
information that could be gleaned from existing-business data. We provide
question-development assistance and practical data analysis for users of
the Synchronist Business Information System® or for users of other suitable
survey processes.
In our analysis of your data, we first conduct a
trend review ansd assess potential future company investments within the
area served by your local development organization. Second, we develop
a template report for your local group to use in better understanding
the trends developed through our analysis of the data.
Benefits:
- Obtaining professional assistance with question development for existing-business surveys
- Having at your fingertips, with our assistance, the full potential offered by the Synchronist software or other suitable approach
- Saving your time for other activities
(Synchronist Business Information SystemŽ is a registered trademark of Blane, Canada Ltd.)
