Kleinhardt Regional & Economic Development Services & Products
Kleinhardt has built a reputation for insightful and practical advice for those concerned with regional, community and industry development. The firm brings to this field commercial skills, combined with knowledge of the academic theory and the latest in international thinking.
As with all our work the emphasis is on strategic, analytical and lateral thinking to bring to clients practical solutions. The firm's practitioners include Australian pioneers in the field of regional economic development, which only began to be recognised as a distinct field in the early 1990's.
Combined with this the firm is part of the international network of practitioners, academics and policy makers through involvement with The Competitiveness Institute. This provides global reach in terms of the latest thought in the field.
Key staff members also have national Australian experience in industry policy development and knowledge of learning theory and social sciences critical to development of the collaborative models now recognised as being at the core of the intuitive learning and innovation driving successful regions and industries.
Technical skills which are drawn on include:
- Group Dynamics
- Systems Thinking
- Learning Theory
- Competitiveness Theory and Practice
- Cluster Theory and Practice
- Change Management
- Feasibility Assessment
- Financial Modelling
- Workshop Techniques, Design and Delivery
- Focus Groups
- Statistical Research
- Survey Design, Delivery and Analysis
- Market Research and Planning
- Strategy Development
- Organisational Structuring
- Scenario Planning
- Project Facilitation
- Corporate Governance
- Risk Management
- Export Market Development
The data collected over multiple projects provides the firm with insights into the operation of regional economies and the local, regional, national and global forces that drive them.