From Boardroom to Resource Room:

Translating Strategy

Production to Design to Administration:

ClientJob Counselor / DeveloperPlanner & Program DesignEconomic Development

WIB

Over past 26 years:What has worked?

What hasn’t, and why?

Perspective….

JTPAWIA

“Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it.”

Problems: Culture (deal vs. social); Funding (regs); Goals

(high wage vs. low labor costs); Timeframes (Eco

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together…..

…. There it begins.” Mies van der Rohe, 1959

Local Strategy based on Local Partnerships and Local Strengths

Self Interest, Need, Champions, Funding,…..

Does it Make Sense? Is it “natural” for your area? Can it be sustained?

Forced partnerships, forced cluster development, false assumptions,

unrealistic scale

SWOT: Cost Allocation Methods, BAR, Documentation Processes, Staffing, Assessment, Tools, Outreach, Training Formats and Platforms, Customers (small business?), Partner Roles, Data & Information

Tactics: The Bricks….

“God is in the details.”

Mies van der Rohe, 1959

Workforce Boards are the logical “common space” for Convening, Collaborating and

Coordinating vested partners in leveraged

Primary Role:

Workforce Development MANAGES the Mining, Manufacture, Processing, Q.C., Inventory and Distribution of

regional Talent and Skills

“We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on

the material itself. We must be as familiar with the

functions of our buildings as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also

what it must not be.”

Mies van der Rohe, 1938