Dan Taylor

Chapter 4 Teaser Product Development & Packaging

Dan Taylor — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:16:05 +0000

Creativity, Innovation, Product Development and Packaging In my observation this is often where economic development falls flat. As economic developers we don’t always think of ourselves as creatives, innovators, marketers, product developers and packagers. We do however think of ourselves as sellers. Ironically if we don’t think of ourselves and act as the former we …

Chapter 3 Teaser – Market Readiness

Dan Taylor — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:35:01 +0000

Market Readiness Market readiness is a bit of a funny term, which is appropriate since economic development is a bit of a funny business. The reason I say economic development is a funny business is because of its fundamentals. It’s the only profession I can think of where one is tasked to do many things …

Chapter 2 Teaser – Build on Your Strengths

Dan Taylor — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:34:04 +0000

Crowd Sourcing As part of my crowd sourcing experiment, I’m wondering if this chapter warrants an alternate or more provocative chapter title such as When R& D = Rob & Duplicate or “What space can we own?”. What do you think? Do you have a preference or any alternative suggestions? Please read on and let …

Chapter 1 Teaser – Creative Rural Economy

Dan Taylor — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:48:15 +0000

The most exciting accomplishment I’ve achieved in my career to date was to discover the economic potential of Prince Edward County. What I realized early on was that if Prince Edward County was going to be a successful and growing economy it had to be the best Prince Edward County it could be. It needed …

Introduction – Economic Development is Like a Farmers’ Market

Dan Taylor — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:18:13 +0000

In my previous blog I outlined my first book which I am currently writing and I drafted a bakers dozen worth of chapters. Below is a teaser from my introduction. Since I am crowd-sourcing feedback, yours is welcome. Please feel free to comment on any or all parts of this blog. “Because I’m going to …

Blogging my book outline and crowdsourcing your feedback

Dan Taylor — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:31:40 +0000

I’m going to write a book O.K. I’ve been threatening this for several years and now it’s time. I am going to write a book. Well to start with I am going to blog a book. Actually I am going to blog an outline of a book. I’m not procrastinating, really. This blog is going …

Creative Economy – The Horizontal Sector

Dan Taylor — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:44:17 +0000

Call it “Industry Agnostic” or a “Horizontal Sector”, the chart below illustrates how Creative Occupations and the Creative Economy cuts across all sectors in Ontario. Industry Agnostic In my work in Prince Edward County and now Peterborough an insight came to me as it relates to applying creative economy theory to economic development practice. The …

3 Phases of the Economy over 10,000 years in two minutes or less.

Dan Taylor — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:17:17 +0000

This history of the economy in many ways is quite simple. The numbers below are approximates and a bit of a mash up taken from several sources to illustrate trends and shifts in our economy. Here’s a brief 10,000 year summary of the economy in North America and to a certain degrees the Western Hemisphere. …

Micropolitan Manifesto – How to Revive Small Cities!

Dan Taylor — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:04:45 +0000

Micropolitan, really? Yes, really. It’s a statistical word but the opportunity is to bring it alive and have it equate to prosperity! Through my Peterborough Economic Development lens here’s my take is this. Micropolitan means small city and rural blend, an edge city, an edgy city with a rural fringe. Edge as in on the …

Moving from the Industrial Age of Control to the Creative Age of Release

Dan Taylor — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:55:38 +0000

Recently, I’ve been listening to some Stephen Covey audio books to help me implement organizational improvements in my new role as CEO at the Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation. While Covey doesn’t specifically refer to the Creative Economy, or Richard Florida he does refer to Peter Drucker’s work about knowledge workers, who are essentially Creative …