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ICF International offers a variety of information technology
tools that can help your state, region, and/or enterprises
track their performance and improve their internal processes
and enable broader and more systematic collaborative solutions
on an ongoing basis.
The Regional Monitoring System
(RMS)
The ICF International Regional Monitoring System (RMS) is a
database application that automates analysis of how each region
is performing. The system tracks:
- Regional economic performance—Prosperity,
disparity, sustainability, and quality of life
- Cluster competitiveness—Employment size, concentration,
and growth rate; benchmark growth rates and concentration
relative to selected competing regions.
- Economic input foundation capacity—Output,
capacity, and comparative performance relative to selected
competing regions
- Collaborative actions and flagship progress—Tracking
of implementation progress for each cluster and for each
regional flagship initiative
All of this information is Web-enabled and can be viewed
by stakeholders across the region, improving information exchange
and decision-making. RMS applications are currently provided
to all our regional collaborative solutions clients as a deliverable
at the close of the strategy process to support implementation.
The Regional Collaboration Network
(RCN)
One of the most important needs of regions worldwide is to
ensure transparency, engagement, and commitment of regional
stakeholders across the region. Responding to the desire of
our clients for improved tools in the collaborative strategy
process, ICF International has developed the Regional Collaboration
Network (RCN). The RCN is a virtual workspace and community
(extranet) through which participants can actively engage
initially as part of an ICF International-led initiative and
subsequently as part of ongoing regional collaborative initiatives.
As part of the Regional Collaboration Network community, a
participant can become:
- Informed: Learn about the mission and structure
of the regional collaborative solutions initiative—from
reading archives of regional town halls and collaborative
work sessions to viewing regional data as it is compiled
and released.
- Engaged: Join in a dialogue on regional performance
issues regarding prosperity, disparity, sustainability,
or agility, or participate in a cluster group or economic
foundation work session. View and comment on minutes and
track progress of activities.
- Committed: Work with members of a specific cluster
or economic foundation group on defining, crafting, and
tracking collaborative actions.
- Connected: Participate in online market exchanges
between members of specific clusters or economic foundation
groups—on skills, technology, product, finance, and
other topics defined by participant stakeholders.
We envision the RCN to be a living system that evolves during
and after a regional strategy initiative and provides support
to clusters that can't always be in the same room.
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