Most tourism and business recruitment activities fall into the Quality, Connected Places component of a regional strategy. Finally, leadership programs, annual meetings, and citizen forums represent the core elements of Civic Collaboration. Development professionals can use the same framework to map their existing strategy. To what extent is the region’s strategy balanced across the different dimensions? To what extent does the region have a clear set of shared outcomes within each category of investment? This framework provides a regional leadership team with a base map on which to plot strategy. In this way, the framework can help clarify development initiatives.
