Slide show developed to show the benefits of regional collaboration on attracting, retaining and developing an IT talent pipeline in SW MO to remain globally competitive.

1. IT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT Growing and Sustaining an IT Talent Pipeline in Southwest Missouri

2. Think About… What did your business/job look like 10 years ago… Did your business/job even EXIST 10 years ago? What will your business/job be in 10 years? Will you have the right education/skills? Will southwest Missouri have an IT talent pool to meet your employment needs? http://youtu.be/4Q75KhAeqJg

3. What’s the Issue? Percent of Tomorrow’s Talent Pool Already At Work Source: MERIC, US Census Bureau

4. What’s the Issue? Change in Missouri's Population Composition by Age Source: MERIC, US Census Bureau

5. Populations Impacted by Recession Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, LAUS

6. The Hard Truth The US is the only highly-developed democracy where young adults are less likely to have completed high school than the previous generation.1 >1mil young adults drop out of high school each year—12 mil+ adults without a high school credential are in the labor force today. At the same time, almost twice as many jobs over the next decade will require a postsecondary credential or college degree, up from 25% today to about 45% over the next decade.2 93 million score at the lower levels of national assessments of functional literacy skills and are unprepared to enroll in the postsecondary education or job training programs that can prepare them for current and future jobs.3 Will southwest Missouri have an IT talent pool to meet your employment needs?

8. Focus on both short and long term

9. Multilayered strategies– targeted awareness and training for different age groups and skill levels

11. Our Region* By County: Population: projected to exceed 700,000 Greater than state of state of Wyoming, North Dakota, and Alaska! 5,988 square miles Barry Christian Dade Dallas Greene Lawrence Polk Stone Taney Webster http://quickfacts.census.gov *Using Ozark Regional Economic Partnership as model for region

12. Outlook on IT: Ozark Region* *Ozark Region consists of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Stone, Taney and Webster Counties. Information gathered from www.missourieconomy.com

14. State Outlook

16. Statewide IT Snap Shot 3,250 IT Service Firms 38,100 workers 1.7% of total state employment Average wage: $76,267 Information Taken from the IT Services Industry Brief (http://www.missourieconomy.org/pdfs/itservices_industBrief_mo_2009.pdf)

17. Ozark Region Occupational Projections 2006-2016

18. The Future of IT… is southwest Missouri committed to sustaining and growing its own IT industry. TOGETHER

19. Regional IT Consortium Private and public sector partners working collaboratively, sharing knowledge A way to attract, develop and retain an IT talent pipeline serving southwest Missouri businesses in order to maintain global competitiveness. REGIONAL ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

20. Other Regional Projects

21. Who’s Involved Business leaders IT Professionals Education Employment services Government Community Economic Development Leaders

22. Gain the Advantage Identify the skills IT employees need now/future Provide a high-tech, innovative place for IT professionals to come together, discuss current trends, training needs, jobs, etc. Attract and retain IT professionals Attract students to the IT profession

23. Successful regions learn the discipline of Strategic Doing

24. Successful regions apply Strategic Doing to align their assets toward their opportunities as well as build trust

25. Our Challenge: Seeing with New Eyes Our Opportunity: Civic Leadership in the Age of Networks Next Steps for Building Regional Leadership Networks

26. Workforce development takes place in a civic space outside the four walls of any one organization

27. Regional innovation needs a network with tight core and open boundaries

28. How Do We Get There From Here? Develop new habits and disciplines of civic leadership to engage Build and align networks in this civic space to get stuff done.

29. Next Steps for Building Regional Leadership Networks Step 1: Create a neutral civic space Step 2: Establish new habits of “thinking together” Step 3: Move from “thinking together” to “acting together”

30. Step 1: Create neutral civic space Find a physically neutral space Establish clear rules of civility

31. Establishing clear rules of civility helps announce “this place is different”

32. Step 2: Establish new habits of thinking together Map your assets Map your challenges/needs Guide the conversations Leverage the Internet

33. Mapping assets helps people see connections

34. Leveraging the Internet keeps people connected…opens the door to others Wired-nation.net Bioscienceregions.net innovating-networks.near-time.net/wiki

35. Step 3: Move to “acting together” Establish core team with clear roles and responsibilities Develop a network of partners Build habits of strategic doing

36. Draw your own circles of engagement

37. Guide conversations to “next steps”

38. Move people to a new place

39. Branding/Ownership Ideas for branding our consortium Show Me IT Southwest Missouri Area IT Consortium– SMAITC Southwest Missouri Regional IT Consortium– SMRITC Ozarks Regional IT Partnership—ORITP

40. IT Consortium Vision Facilitate an infrastructure able to provide a qualified and skilled workforce to meet the needs of the IT industry. The consortium will accomplish this by ensuring that appropriate enabling and sustaining systems are in place. As we reach our goal, we’ll see all employers workforce needs met by: An improved image of skilled labor careers K-12 education, post-secondary education, and other training programs include and actively promote skilled IT careers Expanded alternative and non-traditional labor pools being utilized Active industry engagement in education and training programs Identifying and reinforcing workforce indicators for desired results Engaged state and local workforce boards in meeting skilled workforce challenges of the industry

41. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

42. THANK YOU! Dawn busick (417) 447-8901 busickd@otc.edu Sherry Coker (417)447-8884 cokers@otc.edu