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BEA Regional Outreach: Building New Alliances. Robert L. Brown AUBER Annual Conference Bellingham, WA October 12, 2008. BEA’s Strategic Objective with Customers. Make BEA more responsive to the needs of its customers and partners by: Sustaining and enhancing BEA’s external communications
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BEA Regional Outreach: Building New Alliances Robert L. Brown AUBER Annual Conference Bellingham, WA October 12, 2008
BEA’s Strategic Objective with Customers • Make BEA more responsive to the needs of its customers and partners by: • Sustaining and enhancing BEA’s external communications • Providing opportunities for user feedback
Regional Program Outreach Efforts • Provide innovations/future improvements • Present research, products, and training at conferences • Expand on partnerships with customers
Provide Regional Innovations • Accelerated release of estimates • New products produced • More data released • Research results released • Graphics and mapping provided
Provide Future Improvements • Accelerating release of county personal income • Making GDP for metropolitan areas permanent
Present Research, Products, Training at Conferences • Presentations • Current products • Research projects • Participation in Organizations • Special sessions • RIMS II training workshops
Expand Partnerships With Customers • All day workshops on BEA regional accounts • C2ER (ACCRA) and Washington State U. organized • BEA and guest speakers on the regional accounts • More active participation with select organizations • AUBER, NABE, PNREC, C2ER, Brookings • Teleconference with NABE on GDP for metro areas
Expand Partnerships—Cont. • BEA—PNREAP—University economic research bureau workshops • BEA provides overview of regional • PNREAP provides free computer-derived analytics of BEA regional data • University units discuss their value-added • Tailored products for the local communities • Forecasts—Outlook—Impact analyses
Benefits of PNREAP/University BER/BEA Workshops • All sponsors benefit • Reaches new audience • More interactive with audience
Next Step • BEA sponsored day-long workshop • With Central Washington U./PNREAP and other university host