Economic Gardening
The goal for the Economic Gardening program is to design and implement a program to offer "Fortune 500" business-to-business products and services geared to growth companies large and small.
The concept of economic gardening originated in Littleton, Colorado, and is an approach to economic development that provides information technology and decision-making support to businesses. These tools are aimed at help companies penetrate new markets, understand competition, develop next-level management teams and refine business strategies.
There are several components to this different way of approaching economic development, including:
- Information, infrastructure, and networking for improved decision making
- Sophisticated technology for identifying market trends, potential partners, competitors and other intelligence
- Cutting-edge consulting
- Strategy, market dynamics, marketing, leadership teams, and finance focusing on the 80/20 rule
- A focus on niche opportunitiess
This approach offers businesses:
- High-powered databases to help you ID new niche opportunities and further exploit current ones
- GIS technology to translate raw data into actionable, revealing maps of customer opportunity
- An expert consulting team to put all this technology together for your business
Our Location Center tool on the right side of every page is an example of how EDWC is bringing GIS technology to your business...and that is only the beginning. GIS Planning, the folks who helped us bring you Location Center, have a cool new tool called SizeUp that delivers economic gardening type technolgies in one box for your business. Click the link and give it a try. We will continue to work with various partners to bring these and ever more tools and intelligence to your business.
An economic gardening committee was established in 2011 to provide leadership to this effort. The committee is working to launch a pilot program in 2012.
Location Center
Powerful yet easy-to-use location and business intelligence tool driven by the same mapping technology and databases Fortune 500 companies use. 
Incentives
Our team not only becomes vested in and passionately focused on your success; EDWC and our Washington County’s communities know how to get your deal done.
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