CEDTP Course Outline

1-Day Course

Business Retention & Expansion©

• The big advantage of small business
• Retaining and expanding business (BR&E)
• Establishing and maintaining a BR&E program
• Import replacement
• Business development
• Business incubators
• Home-based business
• Learning environments
• Overview of CEDTP seven-course series 

      Table of Contents Business Retention and Expansion.pdf

Business & Investment Attraction©

• Introducing business and investment attraction
• Marketing your community
• Selecting target markets in segmented industries and geographic areas
• Selecting the best marketing message and method
• Tracking suspects, prospects, and projects
• Using technology to enhance business investment information
• Foreign investment
• Analysis and evaluation of your business and investment activities
• Learning from the ones that got away 

      Table of Contents Business and Investment Attraction.pdf

Opportunity Identification©

• What is opportunity identification?
• The steps in opportunity identification
• Engaging community in a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)
• Idea generation - creating a list
• Filtering ideas for viable projects
• Deciding how to proceed
• Components valuable to nurturing opportunities
• Overview of CEDTP seven-course series

      Table of Contents Opportunity Identification.pdf

Project Management in Economic Development©

• Project management in economic development
• The value of project management
• The five stages of project management:
• Initiation
• Planning 
• Execution
• Control
• Closure
• Selection of projects
• Building a project team
• Creating a work breakdown structure
• Funding options for a project
• Monitoring, controlling, and evaluating the progress
• When to give up 

      Table of Contents Project Management in Economic Development.pdf

The Site Selection Process©

• Defining the site selection process
• Who are site selectors?
• The different roles of site selectors
• Why companies use site selectors
• How site selectors 'select' communities
• The phases of site selection
• Preparing to work with site selectors
• Speaking their language
• Building a business climate that is attractive to site selectors
• Incentives
• Deal killers
• Overview of CETP seven-course series

      Table of Contents  The Site Selection Process.pdf

Supporting Agriculture through Community Economic Development©

• The role of agriculture in the economy
• The role of economic developers in supporting agriculture
• Researching the agricultural community's opportunities and challenges through a farm visitation program (FVP)
• How to establish a community collaboration process relevant to both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors
• Topics to broaden the vision of the challenges and opportunities available for agri-businesses
• Considerations on how to 'partner to survive' through value chains and new generation co-ops
• Emerging trends for future market development
• Connecting agri-businesses to available resources
• Overview of CEDTP seven-course series

      Table of Contents Supporting Agriculture through Community Economic Development.pdf