Community Economic Development
Community Economic Development
Transform your community from the inside out.
Transform your community from the inside out.
We're here to help develop lifelong skills to achieve sustainable business growth. From emerging entrepreneurs to established businesses, we nurture the untapped talents in your community and help them thrive.
How we can help
How we can help
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Building Business Bonds
A Field Guide for Economic Development Professionals
Are you struggling to connect with business owners? Perhaps you're eager to create meaningful change within your community, but aren't totally sure where to start. This practical resource will help you build trust, ask better questions, and offer more value to local businesses.
Workplace-Based Training
For Local Businesses
We offer practical solutions to uncover and address the blind spots keeping business owners stuck. From improving communication to streamlining systems, we are happy to help your local businesses develop a roadmap for growth, succession and long-term success.
Grow Your Communities
Grow Your Communities
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Our work at DCE is to facilitate the discovery and connection of local businesses – that’s why we created Partners in Possibility. By connecting businesses with trusted professionals, innovative tools, and collaboration opportunities, we help unlock their full potential.
It’s a network that’s rooted in hard-working people empowered by systems-leadership.
Not only does this allow us to drive growth on a larger scale, it also gives us a deeper and more meaningful understanding of what businesses really need. Think of it as detailed market intelligence, allowing you to create more effective programs, provide better support and implement systemic changes that truly make a difference.
It’s a network that’s rooted in hard-working people empowered by systems-leadership.
Not only does this allow us to drive growth on a larger scale, it also gives us a deeper and more meaningful understanding of what businesses really need. Think of it as detailed market intelligence, allowing you to create more effective programs, provide better support and implement systemic changes that truly make a difference.
Professional Facilitation
Professional Facilitation
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Our Board Retreats and Strategic Planning Workshops are designed to be engaging and effective. We use innovative, accelerated learning techniques and hands-on involvement to help participants learn quickly, retain more, and achieve great results in less time.
Events are carefully structured to achieve three or more goals at the same time:
- Identify opportunities for growth and innovation
- Crystallize a compelling vision
- Empower people and move them to action
- Formulate a realistic and workable strategic plan
- Develop critical thinking skills across the team
- Facilitate “whole system” participatory decision-making
- Achieve operational excellence through bottom up participation, instead of top down directives
Attendees leave with increased self-awareness, new perspectives and more clarity, confidence and peace of mind. Ready to unlock community engagement and innovation? We'd love to discuss your next event.
Professional Facilitation
Professional Facilitation
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Our Board Retreats and Strategic Planning Workshops are designed to be engaging and effective. We use innovative, accelerated learning techniques and hands-on involvement to help participants learn quickly, retain more, and achieve great results in less time.
Events are carefully structured to achieve three or more goals at the same time:
- Identify opportunities for growth and innovation
- Crystallize a compelling vision
- Empower people and move them to action
- Formulate a realistic and workable strategic plan
- Develop critical thinking skills across the team
- Facilitate “whole system” participatory decision-making
- Achieve operational excellence through bottom up participation, instead of top down directives
Attendees leave with increased self-awareness, new perspectives and more clarity, confidence and peace of mind. Ready to unlock community engagement and innovation? We'd love to discuss your next event.
Measurable, meaningful wins for your business community.
Measurable, meaningful wins for your business community.
Economic development professionals see direct benefits when their business community works with DCE:
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Better insights
Better insights
We can provide workforce data and detailed market intelligence on operational barriers to growth.
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A balanced scorecard
A balanced scorecard
When you measure success against the things that are truly meaningful to businesses, everyone wins.
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Tangible results
Tangible results
Systems-based leadership results in more revenue generation, better employee retention and culture, and improved operational efficiency.
Find us on SAP Ariba
Find us on SAP Ariba
What is SAP Ariba?
SAP Ariba is a procurement tool for the provision of professional services below the NAFTA threshold. The Government of Canada now uses the SAP Business Network Trading Partner Portal as its globally integrated procurement solution.
Why does it matter?
DCE’s senior advisor has been vetted and prequalified as a supplier in twelve (12) professional service categories defined by ProServices. Many provincial and municipal governments across Canada also access the federal government’s e-portal for professional services requirements below $100,000. As a supplier we can be found through both Task and Solutions Professional Services (TSPS) for the provision of Non-Informatics Professional Services and the Centralized Professional Services System (CPSS).
What our community partners are saying
What our community partners are saying
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Tana is a 'bright light.' Her work is highly competent and professional, and her team strives to understand and achieve objectives and expectations.
Chief of Recreational Fisheries
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Tana has a unique ability to integrate many of our existing tools with new resources to create a solution-oriented process that meets the diverse needs and expectations of the business community.
Economic Developer
Mission, BC
Mission, BC
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Tana's work ethic, optimism, and a 'can do' attitude are highly contagious and a welcome change from some of the other firms we have worked with.
Economic Deceloper
Chilliwack, BC
Chilliwack, BC
(855) 668-7276
2287 Pine Vista Place
West Kelowna, BC
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West Kelowna, BC
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