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Ed Morrison · BFD Learning moments: Links to the outside world
December 29th, 2008
Connecting with other communities and regions represents one of the best ways to learn about regional economic development. If you want to look ahead to see what’s coming, look around to see what others are doing.
Here are some of the recent developments we are following at the Purdue Center for Regional Development.
Maine sees economic value in its rivers, an insight into sustainability as a strategy: Rivers once again have potential to be key in Maine’s prosperity. Business leaders in Albany recognize that regions are going to be losing a lot of brainpower with the retirement of the Baby Boom. They are preparing: Business group pushes pre-K education. Leaders in Prague are stepping off with the official launch of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (the Czech president heads the EU): Prague kicks off European year for innovation. Visit the web site here. Civic leaders in Minnesota are applying their manufacturing heritage to health care. They are moving “lean” principles into hospitals: Lean Health brings manufacturing efficiency to health care. Indiana is doing the same through Purdue’s Regenstrief Center for Health Care Engineering. One of my favorite small campuses for innovative economic development is in East Stroudsburg, PA: ESU to break ground on home for startup companies. Civic leaders in New Zealand are connecting their events together to strengthen their regional brand: New strategy aims to entice.
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December 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Happy new year, Ed. And everyone else, too.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:48 am
I read the “lean hospital” article with interest. It’s a good article, I guess, and I do have to make allowances for journalists’ lack of knowledge of industrial methods but one comes away thinking that:
1.) Lean is all about improving efficiency,
2.) Lean is coming up with lots of ways to save a dollar here and a few minutes there,
3.) Lean like the old “quality circles” approach in which employees come up with ideas to save money or save time,
4.) Lean has elements in common with “assembly line” manufacturing methods.
None of these views is particularly accurate.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Do the councilperson’s in South Euclid need to learn from your internet skills so they can discover what other communities are doing?
http://southeuclidoversight.blogspot.com/search?q=orlando
Will Cleveland be as attractive for convention goers as Orlando?
December 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
John:
Thanks! Happy New Year to you, and our BFD readers!
Rick:
This approach has a lot of value. That’s why I put the Purdue link in. The folks at Purdue have been working, quite successfully, on projects such as reducing nurse turnover.
Susan:
I post BFD learning moments because (without being too negative, I hope, John) I have found the Cleveland leadership to be insular and generally unaware of developments taking place in other regions.
As a result, they are prone to making some mistakes: the Tower City bailout, casino gambling, Cleveland+, NorTech’s “strategy” exercise in scenarios, Team NEO (generally), and Voices and Choices.
Cleveland has exceptions — Baiju Shah jumps to mind — but generally the folks in charge of regional economic development are not taking full advantage of learning from other regions.
BFD Learning moments is a fast way to catch up to some of the new developments.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Yes, Ed, I know why you post these learning moments. In case you didn’t read through the South Euclid comment, basically it would indicate that “oh my gawd – you can read about this stuff online!!!” That exclamation might escape a SoEuclid councilperson’s mouth after they spent a wad traveling to Orlando to discover “what in the world to do with so many problems facing their fair city… goodness!” Uh… overspending seems to be one of the problems. (The video is worth its weight in gold… bored to death.)
So as I have asked with regard to the Breuer/County admin debacle and now the medmart bondoggle, when you can’t pay the mortgage on your current primary residence, it is a good time to be building that vacation dream home at Hilton Head?
I get it, Ed. I just don’t think elected officials in NEO are reading BFD at least not in SoEuclid, eh?
Happy New Year to you, too!
December 30th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Susan:
As elected officials start understanding the power of the Internet, they will recognize that their behavior needs to align with a shared sense of the common good.
In the spirit of BFD Learning Moments our local officials could learn a lot from the Nordic countries:
http://snurl.com/99rxx
Have a great New Year.