Our consulting services group has the experience and expertise to help regions and communities grow their economies, enhance their quality of life, and create jobs by determining which business sectors they should focus on and what community improvements need to be made. Garnering community and stakeholder input, leveraging assets and overcoming weaknesses to achieve their vision is the foundation of a great comprehensive economic development plan. On an ongoing basis ESI Corp researches market trends, best practices, and tracks the economy in order to understand sources of new ideas, economic catalysts and potential challenges to economic development.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Comprehensive economic development plans (CEDS)
- Sector strategies
- Labor market assessments
- Employment center studies
- Targeted industry analysis/industry cluster identification
- Socio-economic and SWOT analysis
- Asset inventory
- Community benchmarking
- Best practice research