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Economic Developers Need a Shared Foundation

Economic Developers Need a Shared Foundation

by | May 7, 2026 | , , , ,

๐—˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ'๐˜€ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ. I brought in a professor who ran a vocational course on local economic development, and commissioned a bespoke three-day programme for the team. It worked. Not...

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Create high-performing organisations with a high impact: lessons for the new Combined Authorities in England

by | Jul 21, 2025 | , , , ,

๐™‡๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™—๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™™ ๐˜ผ๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ก๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™€๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐Ÿญ. ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€. CAs were completely new, untested in their local areas, given new funds, powers & responsibilities. ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜†. Many CAs struggled to establish this on the rapid timescales involved. A challenge, I know, but the [โ€ฆ]

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