If necessity is the mother of invention, the COVID-19 crisis is driving cooperative innovation by companies, government entities, and healthcare organizations.
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Chris Volney, Senior Director, Labor Analytics, CBRE (Q2 2020)
Despite today’s unprecedented labor market uncertainty, predictive people analytics can still be used to understand exposure to the economic ramifications of the current crisis.
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Industrial real estate firms are joining environmental investors to redevelop former coal plant sites in an effort to breathe new life into the communities where they are located.
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Larry Gigerich, Executive Managing Director , Ginovus (Q2 2020)
Although compliance may not be top of mind for business during the pandemic, renegotiation may be possible, and incentives could be more important now than ever before.
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Courtney Dunbar, Site Selection & Economic Development Leader, Burns & McDonnell (Q2 2020)
By gaining real data in the pre-capital planning stage, a business can achieve a solid basis for making critical operational and locational decisions.
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Steve Kaelble, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2020)
While the current COVID-19 crisis may put some development on “pause,” our annual Shovel Awards recognize states that garnered large job-creating and investment projects over the course of the previous year.
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Geraldine Gambale, Editor, Area Development Magazine (Q2 2020)
By the end of the first quarter, the U.S. economy contracted by 4.8 percent — the steepest contraction since Q4/2008 during the Great Recession, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. How should businesses respond to this crisis?
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Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2020)
Locations in the middle part of the country provide an alternative to coastal seaports while providing quick intermodal connections to the nation’s interior.
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David Bishop, Director, Service Operations, Johnson Controls (Q2 2020)
Whether your business’ facility has been completely shut down or minimally occupied, concerns about systems and security must be addressed to ensure a smooth reopening.
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Christopher D. Lloyd, Senior Vice President and Director, Infrastructure and Economic Development, McGuireWoods Consulting (Q2 2020)
Economic developers are playing an important role in helping businesses to navigate the COVID-19 crisis, and their use of incentives to solidify relationships should not be shunned.
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Von Hatley, Managing Director, Jones Walker Consulting, LLC (Q2 2020)
A highly robust telecom infrastructure combined with an educational system that can remotely deliver high-quality instruction and training are among the longer list of corporate “must-haves” in the post-COVID 19 era.
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Les Cranmer, Senior Managing Director, Savills (Q2 2020)
The COVID 19 crisis will bring about changes in location strategies and how the process is conducted, as well as in which projects will go forward.
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Susan Arledge, President, Site Selection and Analytics, ESRP Real Estate (Q2 2020)
The current pandemic will present a “new normal” that may include a continuation of allowing employees to work from home and the creation of new behaviors for those that come into the office.
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Azad Khan, Consultant, Parker Poe Consulting (Q2 2020)
Companies that have reduced their workforces as a result of the COVID 19 crisis may need help getting back up to speed when things return to “normal.”
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In the face of current risks, business will focus on supply chain resiliency, accelerating automation, and increased investments in telecommunications and renewable energy.
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Mark Simmons, Principal, Parker Poe Consulting (Q2 2020)
The current pandemic crisis has brought supply chain risks to the forefront; consequently, foreign companies may want to localize production to the U.S. if they wish to serve the American market.
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Temporary shifts to remote working may become permanent and more reshoring of critical manufacturing jobs may also be in the offing as companies look to become more resilient to crises.
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