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Collaboration - Statewide

Kansas Center for Community Economic Development 17 th Annual Community Economic Development Conference Think Strategically Act Locally. Collaboration - Statewide. Wally Kearns State Director Kansas Small Business Development Center Network Growing Kansas Entrepreneurs.

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Collaboration - Statewide

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  1. Kansas Center for Community Economic Development17th Annual Community Economic Development ConferenceThink Strategically Act Locally

  2. Collaboration - Statewide Wally Kearns State Director Kansas Small Business Development Center Network Growing Kansas Entrepreneurs

  3. Collaboration - Statewide • What is collaboration? • Is there an emphasis on collaboration? • How do we go about it? • What are the potential outcomes and impacts?

  4. What is collaboration? Webster’s “To work together in a joint intellectual effort.”

  5. Is there an emphasis on collaboration? The Kansas State Legislature passed legislation to create the KS Center For Entrepreneurship (KCFE) in April 2004 to provide an integrated, collaborative, seamless system of services for small business and entrepreneurial ventures.

  6. How do we go about it?

  7. How do we go about it? Developing an integrated, collaborative, seamless system of for small business and entrepreneurial ventures means.. “Building Relationships”

  8. How do we go about it? “Business, like art and science, has been revealed and conceived through the intellect and imagination of people, and it develops or declines because of the intellect and imagination of people.” Love & Profit by James A. Autry

  9. How do we go about it? Knowledge Management Webster’s Knowledge “Familiarity, awareness, or comprehension acquired by experience or study.”

  10. How do we go about it? Develop an Inventory of the Knowledge 1) Resources 2) Knowledge within the Resources 3) Clients

  11. What are the potential outcomes and impacts? Connecting a client to the right resource at the right time Working with clients in a holistic rather than a piece-meal fashion Gap identification and filling

  12. What are the potential outcomes and impacts? Increase the survival rate of businesses Track the level of assistance provide to entrepreneurs by multiple resources Improve the ability to successfully identify and connect with growth firms Accurate accountability of actual jobs created and saved

  13. Questions?

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