It’s inevitable: After COVID, we’ll discover that a number of temporary societal adjustments from this transformative period have stuck around. There will be sweeping, permanent tectonic shifts in the way we treat technology, employment, crisis preparedness, and economic resiliency.
Leaders in economic development can expect to discuss, adopt and deploy changes in the following 8 categories in the coming years. While COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement have unquestionably precipitated accelerated transformation in these categories, the truth is, many of these changes have been a long-time in the making.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz calls on America to reverse the inertia, stop with the excuses, and get to building things again.
Everyone's opinion of what our world will look like and work like after it is safe to come out of our homes is worthy of consideration.
In addition to serving our clients in crisis, Waymaker Group has been working hard behind the scenes to expand and fine-tune services we know our communities will need when the COVID-19 chaos settles.
The December white paper issued by Information Technology and Innovation Foundation & The Brookings Institution has, thankfully, been getting a lot of national attention and represents the next chapter in our country's economic history.
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