Paul Whiteway, an Associate Consultant of GDP Global, specialises in inward investment promotion. From 2003 to 2008, he worked at the centre of the UK’s inward investment network as Director International in Invest UK, later becoming Director for International Sales in …
Large organisations are notoriously risk adverse yet they need to grow. Also, people do not change unless there is a very good (usually economic) argument for them to do so that has ‘urgency’ writ large right through it.
In a …
Occasionally we lucky people at GDP Global get the opportunity to work with IPAs from the least developed countries LDCs. Recently as part of a workshop in Phnom Penh for the IPAs of Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam we …
Underweight, overweight, right weight?
In all walks of life we are preoccupied with fat… Having read my colleagues’ blogs made me decide some light heartedness on the subject of KPIs. And how it relates to your IPA.
To follow my analogy …
I promised last month to say a bit more about how Investment Promotion Agencies might approach their task given the less favourable international economic environment. Well here goes!….
1. First, do not pull back from promoting FDI. This is not the time to do that. On the contrary, IPAs need to …
Today’s more difficult economic climate means that IPAs should pay more attention to cultivating existing investors. Otherwise they may fail to capitalise on opportunities for expansion and may even see some disinvestment. This means preparing and executing an investor …
Account Plans can be useful tools enabling Investment Promotion Agencies and their regional stakeholders to focus their promotion efforts in a coordinated way, avoiding duplication of effort. But they should not be allowed to become a big bureaucratic chore! Keep …
Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) are typically public sector organisations, which naturally operate at the boundary between the public and private sectors. For an IPA, the bottom line is how many investment projects they are able to win for their …
I’ve been working with clients this month, three of which are involved in the awesome “strategic planning” process. It’s interesting to see how each is going about it, and where they’re coming from so to speak. So if you are responsible for this kind of high level inputs here are …
An article in the Scottish press back in January asking “How do you measure whether location A or location B is a better place to do business?”
This week Ernst & Young’s European Investment Monitor (EIM) …