Community Services - Overview

Each community’s opportunities, assets and challenges are unique.  That’s why we customize our services to fit your community – so you can maximize your opportunities.  Here are some of the approaches that we have successfully implemented in communities.

Accelerator Program™

Accelerator acts as an incubator for communities that are beginning a strategic planning process.  Our team helps communities accelerate during the start-up stage:

• guiding a community’s leaders and citizens to work together
• developing a game plan
• implementing that plan for long-term quality growth

Our team works with you to:

Step 1 - evaluate your community


Step 2 - organize community-wide meetings to shape the community’s vision and strategic goals.


Step 3 - accelerate the strategic planning process (with the help of your Enterprise Innovation Institute coach)

Learn more about Accelerator.

Questions?  Contact Joy Wilkins, CEcD

Calibration Program™

Achieve excellence in your economic development organization!  The Calibration Program^TM helps economic development organizations operate more efficiently and effectively through quality management practices.

Calibration can help your organization to:

• operate with greater effectiveness and efficiency
• better track and communicate progress
• document to key stakeholders that it is a well-managed, highly professional organization
• prepare to earn IEDC’s Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) designation

Our team works with you to:

Step 1 - Assess your organization (self assessement)


Step 2 - Compare where you are to where you want to be (gap analysis)


Step 3 - Develop recommendations


Step 4 - Implement the recommendations

Learn more about Calibration.

Questions?  Contact Joy Wilkins, CEcD

TechSmart™

Put information technology to work for your community. 

• Save money
• Serve customers better
• Provide new products and services
• Boost productivity
• Improve economic performance
• Leverage existing technology infrastructure for economic development

TechSmart™

• is a flexible, results-oriented process
• centers on your community’s unique needs and opportunities 
• develops the foundation to create proposals for funding and for the creation of solutions by technology companies 
• can give your community a competitive advantage through a better use of information technology

Learn more about TechSmart™.

Questions?  Contact Greg Laudeman

PEER Local Resource Center

Do you want to:

• Achieve smart growth/quality growth goals
• Improve your bond rating
• Reduce costs
• Reduce liabilities
• Improve your environment
• Comply with executive orders; resolve non-attainment issues
• Increase your water capacity
• Improve operational effectiveness and efficiency
• Increase public confidence

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) provide local communities, governments, and public facilities with a structured approach for managing environmental and regulatory responsibilities.  Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute is your connection to a world of resources available to your community. Federal, state, or local government entity, public works facility, school system, or transportation facility – we can tailor a program to meet your needs.

Questions?  Contact Deann Desai.

WebFIT™

Managing growth is a challenge for many communities.

What would be the fiscal impact on your local jurisdiction if its residential, commercial, and industrial property were fully built-out?  A WebFIT project can tell you. 

Our team will use your current and projected land use and development data to estimate the changes in:

• Local government revenues and expenditures, by category
• Real, personal and inventory property values
• Population
• Households

Learn more about WebFIT.

Questions?  Contact Robert Lann