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Community Visioning SPH has built on our expertise, skills and experience of community research gained in a variety of projects including bench marking ten different communities in Canada, and international comparative cities to contribute to municipal and regional economic profiling. We believe that the economic and social structure of municipalities large and small primarily begins with establishing a clear vision of your community. Community visioning is the term that we use to describe the processes and techniques used assess and assist communities and stakeholder groups to communicate a visually presentation information about your community. These can include factors that are unique to your community such as location, people, history, natural resources and barriers and challenges that you may face. The outcome of learning from the Community Visioning process can be used towards decision making and developments such as strategic planning, branding and marketing your community. - Strategic positioning as a Business City Strategic positioning in the area of workforce development was one of the key approaches used by the City of Leeds. They focused on developing a workforce with the skills to attract high level investors and at the same time create opportunities for many people who were losing their jobs in the traditional manufacturing industries. The position of the business service sector in Kamloops, and their position in the national and international economy would indicate that a stronger branding of Kamloops as a Business Service Centre in the Thompson/Okanagan region would leverage the strengths of this sector, and the lifestyle factors attributed to this geographic location. (Kamloops Workforce Development Study, 2009, p71)
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