The Western Alabama and Eastern Mississippi (WAEM) WIRED zone focuses on building and leveraging partnerships with regional stakeholders to create a world-renowned regional identity built around its enterprise-centric workforce.
WAEM's vision is to,” Transform a mostly rural collection of people and places into an enterprising region known for its entrepreneurship, innovative workforce systems, and wealth creation, i.e., one that is “enterprise ready."
“Enterprise ready” means “prepared for and committed to value-added activity”, whether individually based, organization based, or community based. An “enterprise ready” region is one in which:
- Business formation and innovation occur easily and often;
- Entrepreneurs and innovation abound;
- A well-trained, skilled workforce has a strong work ethics and values productivity and quality;
- Civic entrepreneurs and regional leaders play strong support and encouragement roles, and;
- A sense of and commitment to entrepreneurship, innovation, and enterprise pervade the region from the retirement community down through the K-12 and youth development programs.
Mission: Develop Enterprise-Ready Places, People, Programs, and Regional Identity.
Goal 1: Fashion an Enterprise-Ready regional identity and civic culture from persistent engagement of leadership in enterprise and innovation based planning and development activities.
Goal 2: Spur and sustain rural economic transformation through a regional, integrated-system approach to economic and community entrepreneurship.
Goal 3: Credential, certify, and transform to a regionally-branded workforce.
Goal 4: Engage K-12 schools and youth development programs in regional branding and Enterprise-Ready activities.
For more information about WIRED, visit WAEM online at www.waem.us.
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