Organizing
Goal: Lay groundwork for full project launch with a broad-based, shared understanding of principles, intended outcomes, and approach.
Activities Include:
- Build diverse cross-sectoral leadership and community engagement structure
- Educate region about evolving principles for Economic Development success
- Assess existing Economic and Workforce Development strategies and civic structure
May
2020
May ‘20
- Approved workplan
- Committees formed
- Existing Strategy Scan
- Preliminary Civic Landscape Map
Discovery
Goal: Develop a data-driven and community-informed Market Assessment – made up of the components listed in the activities below – that enables a cohesive agreed upon narrative about the regional economy, diagnoses challenges and opportunities for growth, and establishes findings to drive economic development.
Activities Include:
- Conduct Civic Landscape Assessment of regional organizations and capacity
- Develop understanding of programs and initiatives underway or proposed in the region
- Conduct interviews, focus groups, and other outreach to ground truth data interpretations
- Compile quantitative data profile including regional economic performance, job quality, the drivers of competitiveness, and more
- Field Countywide Public Opinion Survey
July ‘20
- Civic Landscape Assessment
- Quantitative Data Profile
- Survey Results
- Programmatic Inventory
October ‘20
- Market Assessment Deck and Key Findings
- Presentation of Findings to Steering Committee
Strategy & Governance
Goal: Develop a strategy with specific tactics, operational plans, and performance metrics and establish an ongoing governance structure that positions B3K partners to invest in and execute transformative initiatives.
Activities Include:
- Establish subject matter work groups for strategy formation
- Share models and receive input from peer practitioners across the country
- Build consensus-based strategic roadmap and investment plan
- Develop an ongoing governance plan and accountability
Nov ‘20 – Feb ‘21
- Work Groups operate
- Peer Practitioner input
March ‘21
- Work Group proposed strategies and tactics
- Draft Strategic Roadmap April ‘21
- Strategic Roadmap
- Governance and Operating Structure
- Investment Prospectus
Implementation
Goal: Advance strategy execution, refinement, and distributed implementation among regional partners, while identifying resourcing to execute on proposed strategies and initiatives.
Activities Inlcude:
- Continue refining indicators and metrics at the tactical levels
- Capacity-building to foster distributed implementation
- Identify investment opportunities
April
2021