Research Initiatives

The Talent Strategy Readiness Study is designed to identify the critical framework of talent strategies through understanding the necessary resources to build effective and impactful talent initiatives. Participating in the study will provide your organization with the opportunity to showcase your best talent strategies to a national audience. After selecting the link, you will be provided with additional information and prompted to take the related survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AdyTalentSurvey.

 

Find out how your community compares to the over 400 other EDOs who have participated in this program!  The Capacity Readiness Survey is a free tool developed by Ady Advantage that catalogs major organizational and regional asset indicators and identifies areas for improvement. By taking the survey, you will receive a customized report for your organization that shows how you compare to your peers. The survey is completely confidential and only the organization completing it will know their ranking.
We’ve recently enhanced this service, creating different tools depending on if you are a utility economic developer or a community/regional economic developer. Find out more by clicking on the links below.  

• For Economic Development Organizations
• For Utility Economic Developers 

Do you wonder why you are not closing more projects? It might be that you are being eliminated because of your RFI response. Through Ady Advantage’s mock RFI process, your organization can learn specific tips, tricks and best practices to enhance your likelihood of making it further in a site selection project. This exercise will help your organization put its best foot forward when a real site selection project comes through your inbox. For regional and state groups that coordinate RFI responses on behalf of a variety of communities, this process will also help increase the competitiveness of those communities within your region.