Community Economic Development
Task: Improve the community economic status by further instantiating the community business environment.
Challenge: Ownership and buy in of the methodology from both the community and business leaders.
Solution: Use a mixed method approach of assessing the community and business environment; determine where the least amount of resistance with the most amount to gain existed; build trust and alignment through effective outreach.
Results: Increased business performance and profits with increased recruitment and retention rates.
