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Regionalism

Alignment of continuous improvement projects to corporate direction is key to making sure the efforts are value added. Further, long term growth only comes from linkage of the enterprise to growth patterns of the economy. Fortunately there is a good basis of research and strategic planning on which to build. Which means that getting the strategy right is the relatively easy part.

Executing the strategy is the complex effort, so we have set up a community focused on getting those actions arranged and sustained.

The following shows the basic issues of organizational productivity improvement in the context of national initiatives which may be addressed regionally.

The last piece below shows how actions to address Workforce improvements directly link to regional and national competitiveness.

Successful Transformation	Startlingly high ambitions Integration of different types of change Prolonged effort	Organizational Operational Commercial
National Innovation Initiative	Intersection of invention and insight leading to creation of social and economic value. Basic agenda	Past 25 years: Organizations optimized for efficiency and quality Next 25 years: Optimize society [region] for innovation Talent Investment Infrastructure
The Resilient Economy	Integrating Competitiveness and Security Regional support of Resilience - 7 practices leadership can push
Innovation: Contact Sport	5 Challenges to Regional Innovation	Promoting Talent Advanced Manufacturing Knowledge Assets Entrepreneurialism
Workforce Strategy	National Skills Agenda	Meet demand for middle skills Build service economy skills Compete for innovation advantage Create skills for sustainability

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