Industry-Based Competitive Strategies for Ohio: Managing Three Portfolios
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Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Urban Publications Affairs 5-2005 Industry-Based Competitive Strategies for Ohio: Managing Three Portfolios Edward W. Hill Cleveland State University, [email protected] Larry C. Ledebur Cleveland State University, [email protected] Matthew Sattler Jacob Duritsky Cleveland State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub Part of the Growth and Development Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Repository Citation Hill, Edward W.; Ledebur, Larry C.; Sattler, Matthew; and Duritsky, Jacob, "Industry-Based Competitive Strategies for Ohio: Managing Three Portfolios" (2005). Urban Publications. 0 1 2 3 8. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/8 This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Urban Publications by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Industry-Based Competitive Strategies for Ohio: Managing Three Portfolios Economic Development Strategies That Build From Current Strengths and Address Competitive Challenges SUBMITTED TO THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND TECHSOLVE May 2005 ABOUT THE AUTHORS DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP Leigh Digel Mr. Digel served as the Project Partner for the Industry Based Competitive Strategies Study for Ohio. Mr. Digel has over fourteen years of manufacturing industry operations consulting experience in performance improvement, process redesign, supply chain management, and shared services. He has led numerous process redesign engagements focused in the areas of operations, distribution, and customer service. His experience encompasses serving clients of all sizes in various manufacturing sectors including automotive, steel, electronics capital equipment, industrial valve, ceramic components, and packaging equipment industries. Mr. Digel is certified in production and inventory management by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS). Kelly O’Brien Ms. O’Brien served as the Co-Project Manager for the Ohio Sector Analysis Study, providing day- to-day direction for the team, and leading communications with ODOD project management. Ms. O’Brien also had a significant role in the competitiveness and SWOT analysis work and contributed to overall study findings and recommendations. Ms. O’Brien has over nineteen years of experience in the economic development field. She has worked on a wide range of projects including industry sector analysis, investment attraction and business location analyses. Jan Klawans Ms. Klawans was Co-Project Manager for the project leading the driver/cluster analysis and business strategy portions of the project. She had a lead role in planning and facilitating the expert panel focus groups, managed and conducted business strategy research for the driver industries, and was a primary writer and editor for several sections of the final report. Ms. Klawans has more than fourteen years of business experience focused on strategic planning and driving growth through marketing and new product development in the consumer packaged goods, health care, and financial services industries. Ms. Klawans has helped guide companies through IPOs, merger & acquisition analysis, acquisition integration, customer/product line profitability analysis, competitive benchmarking, new product development, and marketing projects. Gary Demasi Gary served as a project advisor, and as a lead in the location benchmarking analysis. Gary has advised the executives of dozens of leading companies on the deployment of facilities, machinery, human capital, and inventory. With eight years of consulting experience, Mr. Demasi's responsibilities have included management of multiple location strategy, site selection, and incentive negotiation engagements. Projects managed have involved manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, shared service centers, data centers, general back office operations, and headquarters facilities. Key skills include labor and market analyses; manufacturing and warehouse/distribution network analyses; general location strategy evaluations; operating cost modeling; property due diligence; real estate transaction assistance; and in-depth economic incentives negotiations. Elizabeth Stamberger Although involved in many aspects of the overall project, Ms. Stamberger focused on the design, execution and analysis of the online expert panel survey and venture capital survey. She assisted in the completion of the expert panel focus groups, industry analyses, and cluster relationship analyses. In Ms. Stamberger's two years of experience in strategy and operations consulting, she has worked to develop business cases, identify enterprise cost savings and execute strategic sourcing. She has a degree in Business Economics and Marketing from Miami University of Ohio. 3 Copyright © 2005 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, stored in any retrieval system, transported in any form or by any means without the written permission of Deloitte. Sarah Raehl Ms. Raehl focused on conducting business research for the driver industries. Ms. Raehl is a member of the Corporate Real Estate Practice of Deloitte (Fantus), where she has worked on numerous projects involving facility and location strategy, economic development strategy, and labor market analysis. Spencer Schobert Mr. Schobert’s assistance for this project was primarily focused around site location analysis, labor market analysis, and data collection and interpretation (including use of Geographic Information Systems [GIS]); during various stages of the project. His primary area of expertise is location strategy and site selection. He has helped manage multiple projects involving manufacturing, distribution, back office/telecommunications, and educational operations. CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY Edward W. (Ned) Hill Edward W. (Ned) Hill co-lead the project with Mr. Digel for the Ohio Department of Development. Ned is Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development at Cleveland State University's Levin College of Urban Affairs. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program and a Fellow at The Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to his overall project responsibilities, Mr. Hill wrote the emerging technology section of the report. Ned is the former editor of Economic Development Quarterly Dean M. Prestegaard (old) Dean Prestegaard served as the lead researcher for all quantitative analyses, including the driver & cluster industry analysis and the IRC impact analysis. Mr. Prestegaard is an economist with 10 years of experience conducting applied economic research and over 5 years experience analyzing issues directly related to manufacturing and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Mr. Prestegaard currently runs his own economic research firm, DMP Research, which applies economic based models and techniques to questions related to regional economic development issues in order to assist local decision makers in developing strategies for promoting future economic growth and development. John Brennan John Brennan served as one of the driver-cluster analysts for the project. With Dr. Ned Hill, John developed the original methodologies used by Deloitte to identify state and regional driver industries. Mr. Brennan was formerly employed by the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs of Cleveland State University where he conducted urban and economic research, was a program evaluator, and taught courses in the Department of Urban Studies, where he is currently a doctoral candidate with specializations in economic development and public administration. Mr. Brennan presently works as a research associate in the Cleveland Municipal School District’s Division of Program Research and Evaluation. John also serves as an associate editor for Economic Development Quarterly Larry Ledebur Dr. Ledebur's career combines college teaching, university administration, government service and policy research. Since 1994 he has served as the Director of The Urban Center at Cleveland State University and a member of the faculty of the Levin College of Urban Affairs. Prior to assuming the directorship of the Urban Center, Dr. Ledebur was the director of the Center for Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. He has also served as Senior Research Associate and director of the Urban Institute's Economic Development Program, Senior Economist of the White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development, and as a Visiting Scholar and Senior Economist in the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. 4 Copyright © 2005 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, stored in any retrieval system, transported in any form or by any means without the written permission of Deloitte. Dr. Ledebur earned his Ph.D. and Master's degrees in economics at Florida University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Austin College. He began his teaching career at Denison University as a professor of Economics and he has authored numerous book and