“SWOT analysis” Archives
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Visioning Session Slide Presentation
Press Release Apr 19 2009
From Visioning Sessions NorthFork Riverwalk Development project completed two 3 hour visioning sessions that include 88 people in attendance on April 16, 2009.
HDR Engineering Inc. presented a NorthFork Riverwalk information slide presentation (9.7 MB PDF file) to help kick-off the session and what has been doneup up to this point. The presenetation included the results from the,
- Interview Sessions that were held February 9th and 10th were over 60 individuals being interviewed,
- Economic analysis of the current trends and possible development opportunities, and
- Case studies of other communities and how their redevelopment activities relate to the NorthFork project.
The visioning session participant then completed a Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis which was a community driven collection of ideas followed by a community consensous on the ideas presented through a voting process. The results were shared with the participants which will be included in a report.
The final step of the Visioning Sessions was a Geomapping Exercise were participants were able to annotate and existing map of the study area with possible redevelopment activities.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threat (SWOT) Analysis is a good method to collect community input in small groups and then build consensus between the different participants. Each group had 4 sheets of butcher paper that they included ideas on the 4 different areas relative to the project. Each group shared with the facilitator those ideas which were consolidated. Then the individuals where given 4 sets of color dots (3 each) to correspond to the 4 areas and then asked to vote on the idea they felt was the most important. An individual could put on three dots on one ideas if they felt strongly about it.
A photo album is posted at the Picasa NorthFork Riverwalk website.
