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ShoreTrends™
Tracking Business, Economic, Workforce,
and Community Development Trends
Designed by the
Business, Economic, and Community Outreach
Network
of the
Franklin P. Perdue School of Business
at Salisbury University
Good planning requires
good information. However, as a region, the Lower Eastern Shore currently has no centralized repository of information pertaining
to our most urgent business, economic, workforce, and community development concerns. The result is missed opportunities for
business and economic growth and a service system that is continually playing “catch up” to market realities.
ShoreTrends™,an
automated regional information base currently in pilot testing, is being fine-tuned to become a very strong “missing link” tool
for supporting better economic, workforce, and community development planning on the Shore. At the conclusion of the pilot
test phase (by the end of 2004) the Lower Shore version of ShoreTrends™ will be publicly launched as a fully-functional
web-based decision support resource. The use of this valuable resource will enable our region’s decision-makers and advocates
to be proactive, rather than reactive. It will help us become better equipped for developing our true potential for economic
prosperity and quality of life.
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ShoreTrends™, as a one-stop resource for economic, workforce, and community development
information, will
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Be web-based and automated
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Be tailored to the information needs of
participating organizations, as well as able to produce customized reports to meet their particular requirements;
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Tap into a wide
range of information sources, including quantitative national/State/local data and qualitative
inputs from a very powerful regional online panel of opinion leaders
and key informants
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Organize and integrate information in a way that is relevant
to the economic realities of the Eastern Shore, e.g., according to
our unique industry clusters and economic/workforce issues
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Be regularly updated
In short, ShoreTrends™ will give regional
business and public policy leaders a critical tool for developing the products, policies, and programs needed to position the Eastern
Shore of Maryland for prosperity in the 21st century.
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