Month: January 2019

Spencer Project Complete

Post author By dkendellto
Post date January 8, 2019
Categories In Business Retention & Expansion, Clients, Completed Projects, Consulting, Economic Development, Micgrowpolitan, Micropolitan, Project Management, Strategic Planning
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On Monday (Jan 7, 2019) we presented the Spencer City Council (Spencer, Iowa) with a final draft of their Economic Development Strategic Work Plan. The plan, developed in conjunction with the city’s Grow Spencer Commission, covers a range of economic development initiatives for the next five years. Check out the plan. In accepting the final […]

Understanding How City Plans Fail

Post author By dkendellto
Post date January 3, 2019
Categories In Consulting, Economic Development, Government, Management, Planning, Project Management, Strategic Planning
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In my experience a City’s successful implementation of a plan depends greatly upon a their reaction to and investment in the actual elements of the plan. For successful implementation to occur, a city must be mindful of the tendency for its performance to ‘default’ to status quo (generalization and avoidance), substitution (solving a less complex […]