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Strategy

This is the first of a series of pages which provides a structured guide to preparing and implementing a regional development strategy based upon eWork by drawing upon relevant results and approaches from EMERGENCE and elsewhere.

These pages are designed to provide step-by-step guidelines of how regional decision makers can design and put into practice an eWork-based development strategy.

There are eleven main steps:

  The local and the global

  Steps in preparing and implementing a strategy

  Step 1: getting started

  Step 2: understanding regional development and eWork

  Step 3: developing a regional profile

• standard regional and ICT profile
• eWork survey, with eWork survey checklist matrix
• regional eWork push and pull factors
• regional statistical profile — EMERGENCE eReadiness database

  Step 4: SWOT analysis

• stages in the implementation of a SWOT analysis

  Step 5: developing a vision and goals

• some illustrative eWork goals
• empowering the individual
• making companies’ eWork competitive
• building regional society
• supplying and applying the technology
• playing to your strengths

  Step 6: developing strategies

• example objectives and approaches

  Step 7: implementation

  Step 8: monitoring and evaluation

  Step 9: follow-up and on-going steps

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