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2008 Southern Business Expo. One Region — One Vision. Today’s Message. Good News and Bad News Connect SI — Blueprint for Success What You Can Do Sense of Urgency. What is Different About Connect SI. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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2008 Southern Business ExpoOne Region — One Vision
Copyright © Wondershare Software
Today’s Message
• Good News and Bad News
• Connect SI — Blueprint for Success
• What You Can Do
• Sense of Urgency
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What is Different About Connect SI
• Collaborative 20-county economic and community development strategy — measurable, transforming and sustainable
• Positions SI to compete globally against country strategies• Views neighbors as resource partners rather than competitors • Understands that knowledge based, small, & innovative firms
are the growth engines of our future…not industries of our past• Broadband strategy focus enables all 20 counties to benefit• Sees economic development as the job of every citizen• Collaboratively funded rather than grant dependent• Business plan based, action driven, results oriented• Bottom up — grass-roots driven
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Big Disconnect: Youth Brain Drain vs. Real Opportunity
• SI is losing its most employable youth due to the perception & reality that there are not sufficient job opportunities here
• Yet, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says: – “There will be a shortfall of 10 million workers by 2010”– “A demographic crunch is coming and will be exacerbated by a
talent crunch that threatens to stall the very engines of economic growth”
• SI can become a thriving global-hub if it:– Focuses on reversing the brain-drain – Builds its base of skilled manpower – Leverages its strategic mid-country location & unique quality of life
environment to grow KBE workers
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