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Indianapolis Private Industry Council
The global aircraft engines value chain and local economic development 

ri conducted a comprehensive market analysis of Central Indiana's economy in the context of the global aircraft engines industry.  The report's key findings and strategy guide has helped the Indianapolis Private Industry Council rediscover the region's competitive advantage in the context of a rapidly changing industry.  Central Indiana's economy was benchmarked against other major aerospace manufacturing hubs including Cincinnati, Ohio.  Logistics and warehousing,  potential to expand into the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) market, and innovative capacity were all identified as a distinct competitive advantage for Central Indiana. 

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Indiana Health Industry Forum
Economic Development and Value Driven-Healthcare

This collaboration with the Indiana Health Industry Forum resulted in a white paper on the impact of health care reform on local economies, and how economic developers might work with the health care community to promote sustainable and accessible health care delivery systems.  Prompted by impending health care reform during the first year of Obama’s administration, this project set out to address issues of cost, quality, and health care coverage at the local level.  The central conclusion to our findings is the urgent need to reconcile national and local objectives when it comes to health care spending.  As the economy slowly inches out of recession, the health care debate will almost certainly continue to stand center stage, with communities and the health care professional caught in the middle of a battle between cost containment and access to quality care.      

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Health care providers

ri designed an analytical framework to address factors affecting long-term trends in referral volumes for the Epilepsy Program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Some factors addressed in the summary of recommendations include competition across providers, trends in quality improvements across the care cycle, geography and health plan coverage, and reporting on trends in regional demographics and customer base.

Indiana Health Industry Forum
The life sciences industry

ri collaborated with the Indiana Health Industry Forum to create a framework for understanding trends affecting healthcare delivery and its economic linkages to the life sciences sector.  As a state level agency the IHIF was interested in how future trends in health services might affect Indiana companies and institutions dedicated to the life sciences.  This initiative identified five distinct levels of analysis that could be used to understand the economic linkages between health services, manufacturers, suppliers, educational institutions, health care providers, service providers and government:  Economic impact analysis of medical tourism on the state of Indiana, value chain linkage analysis across the life sciences, life sciences value chain cluster analysis, traditional market trends analysis, and export-base model analysis. 

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Institute for Latino Progress 
Partnership development in health care

ri coordinated all communications and promotional materials for the 2009 Health Employers' Breakfast for the Institute for Latino Progress and their Carreras en Salud  healthcare workforce development initiative.  Carreras en Salud is a nationally recognized partnership working with the Hispanic community to strengthen the bilingual workforce of Chicago.  The Breakfast brought together over 80 participants from 30 different organizations to discuss continued collaboration between local development agencies and health employers around the Chicago metropolitan area. This resulted in the creation of a health employer advisory council that directly connects the Carreras en Salud partnership to the changing needs of Chicago's health care community.

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São Tomé and Príncipe International Airport Campus
Scenario Planning - Emerging Futures for São Tomé

ri senior associate Eric Hansen, in partnership with a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning, worked with the São Tomé government to strategize on the expansion of the  São Tomé and Príncipe international airport campus.  São Tomé and Príncipe is a small island nation off the western coast of Africa with an economy centered heavily on tourism, making the airport a crucial factor in the island's economic development.  The project objective was to develop a series of planning scenario's around the airport’s expansion in light of the social, ecological, and economic challenges affecting the island.  Specific recommendations for land use, public support, and workforce development were delivered to São Tomé government officials.

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Global Commodities Division of Invensys 
Forecasting global copper prices for the transportation industry
     
ri, in collaboration with Northern Illinois University College of Business, worked on a project to develop a forecasting model of copper prices for the global commodities division of Invensys, a global presence in industrial automation and rail systems controls.  The research team analyzed the various economic variables affecting global copper prices to create a working statistical model used to improve the predictability of forward buying of copper across the Invensys business.   

Manufacturing Skill Standards Council 
Curriculum development for advanced manufacturing

regionalintel is working in partnership with the Manufacturing Skill Standards Council and the Institute for Latino Progress to design a bilingual workforce development program for the manufacturing sector.  This program is helping community-based organizations arm the next generation of bilingual workers with the skills neccessary to grow in a competitive market.  Regional Intel is responsible for developing a contextualized learning model that incorporates industry-specific knowledge with traditional English as a second language (ESL) instruction.  Graduates of this program will go on to obtain their MSSC skill standards certification. 

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Institute for Latino Progress
ESL in Health Context - workforce development in health care

regionalintel developed the course structure, curriculum, and assessment tools for ESL in Health Context, an intensive 16-week, 256-hour training program for Careers in Health, a nationally recognized healthcare workforce development initiative spearheaded by the Institute for Latino Progress in Chicago.  ESL in Health Context was launched in September of 2008 and has since seen great successes in preparing bilingual candidates to enter the health care workforce.  The program was developed using a contextualized approach by incorporating language learning methodologies with industry-specific content for aspiring health care professionals.              

ACORN Housing Corporation
Proposal for redevelopment for Englewood Community Area, Chicago

regionalintel, in collaboration with the University of Illinois and the ACORN Housing Corporation, developed a proposal for the redevelopment of public housing in Chicago's Englewood community area.  Over 30 years of social and economic decline have marked Englewood as the symbol of urban blight affecting Chicago's south side.  The collaboration posed a unique opportunity to help revitalize a distressed community through the development of affordable, single family housing for area residents.  As the final objective, the project team worked with local stakeholders to identify specific clusters of city-owned properties in the area through a comprehensive analysis of neighborhood assets, local businesses, development zones, TIF districts, crime, and traffic patterns.    

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