Growing the Economy in a Region – The benchmark of success in today’s dynamic global marketplace is flexible management.

The benchmark of success in today’s dynamic global marketplace
is flexible management. We conclude that while technical
competencies—information and communication technology,
optics/imaging and others—are important to the success of many
Finger Lakes firms, it is management competencies that set the
outstanding companies apart from the rest. Also important—and
the particular responsibility of economic development initiatives—
are enabling competencies, competencies that encourage the
dissemination of both management and technical competencies
and encourage the growth of the region as a whole.

Workforce development must be the centerpiece of the community’s
economic development strategy, although the “workforce”
includes the managers and entrepreneurs just as much as the
employees on the shop floor, in the office, or in the laboratory.

Stephen M. Mitchell, PhD
Project Director

Full Report: http://www.fingerlakeswired.com/docs/CGRReport_GrowingtheEconomy_07.pdf