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CCDC Annual Dinner January 17, 2009
Trisha Mason, Executive Director
East Central Illinois Development Corporation
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East Central Illinois Development Corporation
Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Jasper, Moultrie, Shelby counties
Provide Support & Assistance to ED Orgs.
Promote Region Globally
Provide Educational Opportunities
Facilitate adoption of Open Source Economic Development in the Region
Recognize Leaders & Businesses
nonprofit, membership driven, regional economic development consortium
Members range from local businesses, nonprofit organizations, utility and telecom providers, communities and counties
What we do:
Provide Support & Assistance to ED Orgs.
Promote Region Globally
Provide Educational Opportunities
Foster adoption of Open Source Economic Development
Recognize leaders & businesses
Membership Benefits
Networking opportunities
Regional advertising and exposure
Presence on regional website
Having a voice in regional economic
development issues and building regional
relationships which could lead to potential partnerships
Utilize relationships and partner to provide educational opportunities in region
Access to internet-based GIS application and many other resources
-through functions such as annual meeting and boat outing
-promote the region through our website, bimonthly e-newsletter which is sent to over 2,000 recipients throughout the country, some of which are site selection companies, offer cooperative advertising in other publications-such as the IL Tourism Guide
-website displays LOIS link to available sites and buildings, county demographics, incentive information, ED contact information, telecom, utilities and transportation listings and if you are a member of ECIDC, it will also display links to your website. This year the website will be expanded to house the individual municipality data as well. The website also links up the Central IL Tourism site
-through Board of Directors meetings, Eds and community representatives are invited to attend B of D meetings and join the Advisory Staff
-Provide educational opps to our membership, leaders, and governmental units
-latest service is access to ESRI BAO and other resources-aid in projects, data harvesting, grants, contacts with other local, state, and federal agencies and resources
Benefits of Regionalism
Present a united front to the state, nation and world
Never-ending networking opportunities and space to share experiences and challenges
Shared expenses: marketing, education, networking functions
Greater access to resources to perform at a higher level
Why do organizations such as ours exist?
…Because of the many benefits of regionalism especially in the rural areas where funding is short and the demand for development and sustainability in our communities is high.
An example of how regional relationships can benefit your communities is the partnership between Clark and Cumberland County to develop a Leadership Training Program.
Regions struggle to overcome the “power”
of the invisible fence
With Great Benefits always comes challenges
Greatest Challenge to Regionalism is the power of the invisible fences.
We have all heard of the underground electric fence you can use for your pets. Did you know that you only have to use it for 30 days and then deactivate. The pet will still never try to cross its boundaries. For years, we have been caged by the invisible fences our predicessors put up. They felt at the time these boundaries were for protection. Now these boundaries are just hendering our momentum to keep up with the global economy.
Regionalism is more important then ever
We now compete in a global marketplace where boundaries are no longer relevant.
We are currently in the mist of a shift in our global economic structure.
But we must move past the fences and begin working together because that is how we will stay strong through this shift from our Grandfather’s Economy into our Grandchildren’s Economy.
I wish to go into further explanation about this shift because this is the basis for Open Source Economic Development.
* Our grandfather’s economy created a lot of wealth with vertical business models
Our Grandfather’s Economy generated enormous wealth
We can see this wealth all around us in the libraries,
courthouses, great colleges and world-class research universities.
This economy experience dramatic growth during the early decades of the last century and during this period entrepreneurs across the country planted seeds…many of these withering but some took root. The successful ones grew into large and prosperous companies that built our communities with high income jobs and increasing philanthropy.
The S-Curve caught up to our
grandfather’s economy Global markets integrated
Costs collapsed
The Internet exploded
Our strong industrial growth continued into the years after WWII but then the climate began shifting.
The forces of globalization collapsed costs and integrated markets causing this economic model to become less and less efficient. This process began in the 1960s, and continued to accelerate through the 80’s as Fortune 500 companies were closing down factories in the United States and moving production to lower-cost countries like
Mexico and Singapore. And in the 90’s, something many deemed impossible happened, the Internet exploded accelerating the process of globalization even more.
Momentum and growth favor businesses on the Second Curve
And globalization led to the creation of the Second Curve…
You can see where we are in moving from our First Curve Economy to the Second Curve.
And unlike the First Curve economy where wealth was driven by vertical, command and control business models, the Second Curve wealth is driven by networked business models causing us to rethink all of the First Curve
assumptions: about how work should be organized;
about how intellectual property should be protected;
about how anti-trust laws should be enforced;
about how financial markets should be regulated.
At the same time that the Second Curve economy
emerges, the First Curve economy will not disappear.
But momentum and growth favor businesses on the
Second Curve.
2d Curve strategies are based on “linking and leveraging”
Increasing returns on the Second
Curve
But in order to manage this transition to the Second Curve economy we will need to “link and leverage” our First Curve assets to our Second Curve Opportunities. To do that, we will need new models of economic and workforce development, new approaches, based on networks. We will need new collaborations across organizational and political boundaries.
The reason is simple: In a networked world, no one has the resources—or is smart enough or fast enough – to go it alone.
Expanded networks will drive innovation in the Great Lakes
Innovation is key to this shift in curves. Innovation drives productivity and prosperity. But in order for innovation to thrive on the Second Curve, we need to build and promote open networks of collaboration. Through these
networks, entrepreneurs and high growth companies find their resources that they need to Grow.
Successful regions will move civic thinking from hierarchies to networks
Moving to the Second Curve requires new approaches to strategic thinking
Imposing old models of strategic planning on an increasingly networked economy leads to frustration. The
chief reason these strategies fail is lack of alignment. It is no longer possible to impose a vision from above.
Ultimately, moving to the Second Curve requires fundamentally new ways to thinking and acting....
• A new commitment to civility and collaboration
• A new commitment to transparency and open information sharing
• A new commitment to continuously learning -- finding out “what works -- from experiments and
Successful regions will
take the “Shanghai perspective”
Our View Their View
When we look at the world this is what we see but if you are on the other side of the globe this is what you see...We as a region must be willing to look at all challenges from diverse prospectives and be willing to accept that there is never just one right way or answer.
Open Source ED Basics
Based on open information sharing and building relationships of trust through “doing”
Building collaborative partnerships between education, workforce development, economic development, and business/industry
Wealth is created by tying together extraordinary assets in your communities and the region
And this shift in curves is the basis behind Open Source Economic Development, the economic model that will be successful in the global economy
And with Open Source Economic Development comes a new method for strategy planning called Strategic Doing
Unlike traditional strategic planning, strategic doing focuses on coherence and alignment and invites everyone to share in developing the plan
Essentially what you are trying to do is to derive strategies on how you can link and leverage your current assets in these five areas: Brainpower, Innovation, Quality Places, Branding and Civic Collaboration.
And why these areas…Because to be globally competitive, any community/region needs to cultivate high quality brainpower. Next, the region needs to convert this brainpower into wealth through innovation and entrepreneurship networks (“clusters”). The region needs to be able to retain and attract talent by building quality, connected places and the region needs to tell its story through effective branding. And most importantly, because without it none of the rest is possible—the region needs to cultivate civic habits of collaboration through an organized process of “strategic doing.”
Thank you!
Learn more
http://www.ecidc.com
Strategic Doing is different from Strategic Planning in that it is a discipline rather than a process. It is also much different because Strategic Doing is the networked approach to strategy which is more fluid, adaptive and flexible. It combines open participation with leadership direction as in strategic planning the process is often controlled by a handful of people which creates weak commitment from below. Strategic Doing promotes strong commitment because more have a hand in shaping the plan.
The goal of strategic doing is to articulate a clear direction and then define initiatives that align with that direction.
One of the best ways of utilizing this strategy to find new and innovative ways of linking and leveraging assets is through hosting open public forums. Gives everyone a chance to participate and greatly increases participation because everyone has ownership in the plan!!!!
The four steps of strategic doing are based as transformative questions:
1.What could we do together? Exploring the assets mapped previously to explore new possibilities
2. What should we do together? Narrowing down the possibilities to only those few that align with our chosen strategic outcome
3. What will we do together? Launching the steps taken to achieve the 3-5 chosen possibilities to focus on
4. What are we learning together? Reconvening at a set date to evaluate progress and approaches up to this point and then tweaking things that are not working and building upon things th
East Central Illinois Development Corporation
Trisha Mason, Executive Director
(217)540-3517 office
tmason16617@lakeland.cc.il.us
www.ecidc.com
The material on Open Source Economic Development is copyright Ed Morrison and distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution license. That means you are free to modify, copy and use this material for commercial purposes provided that you attribute it as follows:
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