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Getting Strategic About Skills
NOTE: This is the third in our recent “let’s share the findings from all those OECD reports with each other (and the world)” series. Again, the content is not likely scintillating, but it’s important to us, and we’re happy to let you in on it. The OECD Designing Local Skills Strategies Report (2009) focuses largely [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Community, Economy, Longform, Regions, skills, workforce Also tagged community, diadvantaged, governance, leadership, OECD, placement, policy, sectors, skills, strategies, talent, training, upskilling, workforce Leave a comment
Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills
NOTE: This is a continuation of the series we warned you about a few days ago. We are summarizing several large reports for each other (members of the Community Team at CSW), but we’re doing it here so you can benefit too – you know, if you are interested (since you found your way here [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Economy, Longform, skills, workforce Also tagged community, competitiveness, human capital, human rsources, jobs, labor market, labour market, local, national, OECD, policy, prosperity, skills, workforce, workforce development Leave a comment
Big Changes at Work
Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
Posted in Longform, Social Change, Work and Learning 2.0, Young People Also tagged diversity, growth, learning, millenials, recession, sustainability, talent, technology, trends, workers, workforce, workforce demographics Leave a comment
What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery
NOTE: We’ll be be posting findings from a few papers we’re reviewing with the intent of sharing with colleagues. We’re doing this here so that you might benefit from them too, but wanted to warn you before you read too far. We just reviewed Regions Matter (OECD, November 2009). It’s chalk full of bits and [...]
Posted in Economy, Longform, Regions, Resilience Also tagged Collaboration, economic growth, gorwth, governance, innovation, leadership, OECD, policy, Regions, workforce 2 Comments
Infographic: Why Buy Local?
Because it pays. Infographic: Why Buy Local? From Local First in Grand Rapids, MI. (These people have a sense of humor – they are on “Wealthy Street.”)
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