Helping Communities

Our team has the research and implementation experience to help you understand your opportunities for, and challenges in, fostering local economic development.

Our clients include local elected officials, economic developers, policymakers, community leaders, state leaders, state agencies, and non-profits.

Labor Market & Human Services Analysis

CIS staff can help with numerous labor force and human services research needs. Labor Market Analysis – The importance of a skilled labor force … [More]

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Economic & Feasibility Analysis

The CIS team has decades of experience with fiscal and economic impact analyses, forecasting and modeling, and building localized economic indicators … [More]

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Strategic Planning & Organizational Development

For years, the CIS team has helped Georgia communities with strategic planning, so that residents of these communities could develop a path to … [More]

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Professional Development Training

For decades, the Georgia Institute of Technology has provided professional development training courses to serve economic development practitioners. … [More]

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Best Practices in Economic Development

The service category we call best practices includes aspects of other services offered by the team such as, projects that involve helping … [More]

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CIS Project Highlight

Georgia Tech recently helped Paulding County leaders create an Economic Development Organization (EDO) to spearhead its economic development efforts. Read more.... Economic Development Organization

Professional Development Training

  • Events on August 22, 2013

    IEDC Real Estate Development and Reuse

  • Events on October 24, 2013

    IEDC Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development