Brian Cole on Arizona Economic Development April 27th 2010

More AZ Town Hall Notes.. Brian Cole talk.

Calculating your top economic development strategies.  Statewide policy.  Community focused strategic plans.

Where are we?

Where do we want to go?

How we gonna get there?

Traditional Approach

  • Vision statement
  • SWOT analysis
  • Demographic analysis
  • What have we been doing
  • What do most influential people want
  • brainstorm action steps
  • consultant collects data

What should you do?

  • Business Development
    • Business retention and expansion
    • Business recruitment
    • Business cultivation (import substitution/industry clustering)
    • entrepreneurial development
    • transportation distribution center
    • energy development
    • environmental restoration
    • telecommunications business
    • value add agriculture
    • value add forest products
    • value add fisheries
    • value add mining
    • destination tourism
    • cultural tourism
    • regional/local tourism
    • pass through visitor service
  • Community development
    • downtown development
    • education development
    • healthcare
    • bedroom community
  • Other strategies
    • infrastructure development
    • attracting retirees
    • attracting lone eagles
    • attracting government jobs
    • attracting government funding

Determine what you want to do.  Define what you can do.

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