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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
We help companies, communities, and not-for-profits become more competitive.

Hot Issues

Our hot issues currently include:
  • Investor diagnostics in post-recession markets
  • Distressed rural markets
  • Distressed urban markets
  • STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)
  • Disjointed business/education feedback systems for communities and industries
  • Access to trade routes
  • Food deserts
  • STEM-led economic development
  • Healthcare and defense simulation
  • Post-recession or post-disaster economic diversification strategies
  • Logistics infrastructure and regional linkage of manufactured goods and commodities
  • State- or territory-level target industry rescue and recovery
  • Workforce and skilled talent as a key economic development value proposition
  • Custom site selection scorecards and re-tooling
  • Supply chain analysis of incumbent assets and small businesses for development of industry targets and goals
  • Articulation across centers of education and training
  • Recovery of brownfields
  • Building capacity in diverse regions and markets
  • Re-set of data and community/regional scorecards to global economic shifts
  • Career pathways and education access
  • Entrepreneurial ecosystems
  • Broadband 
     
"Fairfield Index builds custom solutions through economic development, workforce and talent competitiveness and STEM, and integrated communications. You will have a designated project team built around your needs and goals, supporting you every step of the way - from research and policy analysis, to media scans and reputation management, to design and launch of new systems for engagement, metrics, or collaboration."