There are times it’s best to stand aside and someone else do the talking. What’s follows are quotes from Trevor Lewington, Director, Growth & Engagement with Lethbridge County, Alberta, during our media scrum about the Ecosystem Navigator on September 24th. That led to some brilliant television coverage including Bridge City News, above. (Further coverage here.)
Primary Purpose
The Groundbreakers ecosystem navigator is a unique platform that allows me to gather local expert economic intelligence and insight and impact it around the County and really get some concrete recommendations, some concrete learnings about how to best support our stakeholders.
No substitute for human insight
No ChatGPT insights are going to be as powerful and precise as the insights people can provide based on their experience. But what the Economic Navigator framework and AI can do in this case is bring that together and perhaps shed a light on it or categorize it or organize it in a way that I might not be able to do myself.
Using Local Business Intelligence to Shape Policy
No one knows your market better than the people living and working and operating businesses in it. And so, that’s what this does is aggregates that information, aggregates that feedback so that, as a municipality, we can define policy, we can make change that’s actually going to enable business.
Democratized access to information
Tools like this give a sort of democratized access to information. So, typically, this would be a large consulting report. You'd pay tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach conclusions that this software can give me much faster and powered by... feedback from people locally that are completing the survey.
Tracking Impact and Measurability Over Time:
It gives Lethbridge County a way to measure effectiveness over time... we can do a diagnostic now with a group of stakeholders, we can take action, we can follow the recommendations that are created in the tools report. And then a year from now, I can run that diagnostic again, and track changes over time.
