We’ve been asking economic developers for the last several months how they are using AI. The answers range from not using it at all to using it every day to support a wide range of tasks. Those who say they are not using AI, quickly followed up that they want to learn how to use …
Dr. Marin Burton facilitated an engaging workshop on how to burn bright rather than burning out at the 2024 Women’s Economic Development Network Forum. The content resonated deeply and resulted in a lot of discussion about experiences with burn out and how to avoid it. Dr. Burton led off with an analogy that got everyone’s …
Empowering entrepreneurs isn’t just a goal—it’s a strategy for economic transformation. Developing a comprehensive toolkit to scale entrepreneurs was the 2023 Creative Give Back project for the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. The toolkit has strategies for resource navigation, incentives and capital access, data, and leadership. The 2024 Creative Give Back application opens in January. Apply …
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Updated in 2023, the Safety Guide for Economic Development Professionals remains the sole resource of its kind in our profession. Recognizing the need for comprehensive safety guidelines in our field, Creative EDC took the initiative to develop and publish the first Safety Guide exclusively tailored to the economic development profession. It is part of our …
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There is no topic more discussed these days than the current difficulties companies have filling jobs. This labor shortage is usually associated with the pandemic and is being analyzed in small businesses and corporate boardrooms, and especially at economic development organizations! We wanted to dig deeper into this topic, so we invited Dr. Laura Ullrich, …
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By Leigh Howe, Applied Marketing One of the best ways for communities to grow the regional economy, increase wages, and create new jobs is to support supply chain development. There are three legs to the cluster development stool – talent, innovation, and supply chain. Manufacturers rely on raw materials, components, and parts, as well as …
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There are many trends changing the way economic developers practice. They are changing the way we market a community, develop product, create policy, and measure results. We’ve been talking about trends with our clients, EDOs, and local governments. We summarize some of the trends here, what they are leading us to think about, and how …
It’s all about talent. It has been all about talent for a while, and it will continue to be all about talent for the foreseeable future. We compared MSAs in NC, SC, and VA, our primary consulting market, to see who has the most available labor, most skilled workforce, highest concentrations of manufacturing workers, and …
