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Transforming Local Government (TLG) 2024: Are You Ready?

Envisio

Next week, one of the foremost conferences in local government innovation returns. Transforming Local Government 2024 (TLG), hosted by the Alliance for Innovation, is a seriously inspiring event. Keynote Sessions: Prepare to be inspired by thought leaders and visionaries shaping the future of local governance.

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Design Thinking Driven Problem Solving and Innovation

Flevy

Brainstorming: Generating a wide range of ideas and solutions. Government: Design thinking can be used to improve public services, create citizen-centric policies, and design better public spaces that enhance people’s lives. Some of these include: Empathy Mapping: Understanding the user’s needs and wants.

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Be more strategic – PESTLE, Positioning and Plans

Red Star Kim

Instability in Government/Future Governments. Work with other stakeholders to share ideas and brainstorm . Here are some of their thoughts although typically a lot of research would be undertaken for such an analysis. It would be a good activity for a group discussion. Instability in some international markets. Delegate polls.

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It’d Be a Mega-Mistake Not to Consider the Pandemic’s Megatrends

OnStrategyHQ

Identify megatrends from the last year in these categories: Political Forces – The forces brought on by the government. Examples include the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program, the unemployment benefits programs, and the other forms of government assistance, and policies (even if they are temporary).

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How to Become an Entrepreneur With No Money or Experience

Hubspot Sales

Have a brainstorming session: If you need to get your creative juices flowing, invite three to five other entrepreneurial-minded people to a brainstorming session. Federal, state, and local governments have programs to help small businesses, including low-interest loans , venture capital, and grants.

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How To Identify External Factors That May Affect Your Strategic Plan

ClearPoint Strategy

Something as common as a shift in government policy could have a significant effect on a business. This model is an external factor evaluation matrix that focuses on six spheres of data: (P)olitical: The extent to which a government may influence the economy and thereby impact organizations within a certain industry.

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Key issues in Marketing and Business Development Planning: Engage, Analyse, Expand, Innovate and Measure

Red Star Kim

Delegates reported a range of issues preventing an improvement in the quality of M&BD plans – from the difficulty in obtaining the necessary data at the outset, through time to conduct structured analyses of the data and the identification of opportunities and threats as well as brainstorming creative ways to address them.