Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Trust. Regional cooperation. More and more regions are heading in this direction.
The latest example comes from South Florida. Yesterday, the economic development organizations of Miami-Dade and Broward County met jointly. Officals from The Beacon Council and The Broward Alliance called their meeting "historic".
(Hint: When someone calls an economic development meeting "historic", you know the turf wars were thermonuclear.)
Regional cooperation makes good economic sense, and funders -- utlities, for example -- are pushing this trend to be more efficient.
But regional cooperation has other advanages. You can build bigger networks. With higher levels of regional trust, these networks are more flexible. They can adjust faster to change. In today's world, speed is a competitive advantage.
Read more about what's going on in South Florida. Go.
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South Florida moves toward regional cooperation
