by Mark Lautman | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Featured
Mark Lautman CEcD, Lautman Economic Architecture LLC For the purpose of discussion, it is helpful to think about the community or regional economy as having two kinds of jobs: income generating and income retaining. Income Generating – Economic base jobs or... 
by Mark Lautman | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog, Featured
Recalibrate your economic development plan Mark Lautman CEcD, Lautman Economic Architecture LLC Understanding how many and what kinds of jobs a community expects to have in the future is predicate to any discussion about a workforce development. Unless you are... 
by Mark Lautman | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog, Featured
Mark Lautman CEcD, Lautman Economic Architecture LLC It’s the flip of the causal dynamics in the job-creation game that will force most communities to look for a new business model. This doesn’t mean communities can back off funding their traditional program efforts.... 
by Mark Lautman | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog, Featured
The Changing Game of Economic Development Mark Lautman CEcD, Lautman Economic Architecture LLC A looming shortage of qualified workers is going to force many communities to rethink their business models for economic development. For the last 50-plus years, community... 
by Mark Lautman | Sep 28, 2013 | Blog, Featured
This blog is about two friends in Colorado Springs who might have developed the Silver-Bullet solution for two of the most wicked and intractable challenges communities face today: underperforming public schools and a growing shortage of technical talent. Their... 
by Mark Lautman | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog, Featured
Reinventing Economic Development: Less Action, More Talk If someone tells you that I am all talk and no action now, they would be right. After 30 years, personally on the hook for planning and executing job creation strategies, my job now is to talk about it. One... 