MiRSA

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MiRSA Manufacturing Forum Tuesday April 15, 2008
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WIRED West Michigan Who We Are

• Grantee
• West Michigan Strategic Alliance
• Fiscal Agent
• Grand Valley State University
• Region
• Allegan County
• Barry County
• Ionia County
• Kent County
• Muskegon County
• Newaygo County
• Ottawa County

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WIRED West Michigan

• WIRED West Michigan supports the people,
  ideas and training necessary to attract and
  retain innovative employers and skilled jobs
  across our region.
• Our economy has undergone many changes, yet the
  key strengths of its workforce, a diversity of
  culture, talent and spirit, remain.
• WIRED West Michigan is focused on aggressively
  equipping the regions industries with the jobs
  and talent and vision necessary to compete in a
  changing economy.
• WIRED West Michigan was designed to help
  communities transform themselves at every level
  from the boardrooms to the classrooms and
  create new thinking about how we live, learn,
  work and play.

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WIRED West Michigan
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WIRED West Michigan Definition of Innovation
Performance Improvements Financial
Sustainability Scalability Systems Change
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WIRED West Michigan Innovation Categories
Workforce System Transformation
Market Intelligence
InnovationWORKS
Enterprise Development

• Emerging Sector Skill Analysis
• Global Supply Chain Analysis
• Knowledge Workers Economic Development

• Innovation WORKS Infrastructure
• Manufacturing Skill Development Coop
• Innovation WORKS Design Council
• Innovation Curriculum

• West Michigan Global Education Network
• Health Care RSA
• NCRC WorkKeys
• West Michigan TEAM
• Grand Rapids University Preparatory Academy

• Entrepreneurial League System
• The Rural Initiative

Innovation complete, final report
submitted/pending
Phase III implementation
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WIRED West Michigan Manufacturing Related
Workforce System Transformation
Market Intelligence
InnovationWORKS
Enterprise Development

• Emerging Sector Skill Analysis
• Global Supply Chain Analysis

• Innovation WORKS Infrastructure
• Manufacturing Skill Development Coop
• Innovation WORKS Design Council
• Innovation Curriculum

• NCRC WorkKeys

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WIRED West Michigan
Emerging Sector Skill Analysis (George Erickeck
W.E. Upjohn Institute) Analyzes the structure
of the emerging economic sectors Industry
clusters are the incubators of new
ideas/products. (Manufacturing Base) Rather
than trying to figure out which seed to plant, we
should create fertile soil where any seed can
grow.
Global Supply Chain Analysis (Melissa Anderson
IRN, Inc.) Understand how companies will
redesign their supply chains Rather than
finding a supply chain evolution indicating that
certain products andmanufacturing processes will
be winners or losers workforce
developmentopportunities are related to content
and skills International Trade, Customs
Regulations, Overseas Logistics, Willingness to
undertake Foreign Travel, Knowledge of Foreign
Languages.
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WIRED West Michigan
InnovationWORKS Infrastructure Build an
infrastructure to train inventors, entrepreneurs,
and business to rapidly bring intellectual
property to market. Design Council Leverage
the design capacity in the region to promote
growth in the innovation economy. Manufacturing
Skills Coop Leverage local companies knowledge
to develop a system for skills development in the
West Michigan manufacturing community.
Innovation Curriculum Create a curriculum to
develop the skills needed for continuous
innovation in the existing and emerging workforce.
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WIRED West Michigan Motion and Progress
NCRC/WorkKeys Implement the ACT National Career
Readiness Certificate WorkKeys in a critical
mass of employers, educational institutions and
Michigan Works in the region. WorkKeys Skills
Assessments in the areas of Applied
Mathematics Reading for Information Locating
Information
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WIRED West Michigan
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Contact Information
Phillip Rios, WIRED West Michigan, Project
Manager 10 Straight Ave. SW Grand Rapids, MI
49504 616-331-6968 Email
prios_at_wiredwestmi.org Website
www.wiredwestmi.org
Greg Northrup West Michigan Strategic
Alliance, President 401 W. Fulton-DeVos
203C Grand Rapids, MI. 49504 616-331-7087 Email
northrupg_at_wm-alliance.org Website
www.wm-alliance.org
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