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• Access to real-time data on workforce, enterprise performance, and innovation pipelines— enabling smarter targeting, messaging, and investment. • Plug-and-play compatibility with partner strategies and systems. Whether it’s a chamber rolling out a sector campaign, or a city launching a workforce program, EKC can provide the data, infrastructure, and coordination services to accelerate execution. Just as a computer operating system enables its applications to reach their full potential through stable infrastructure, system services, and data access, EnterpriseKC’s OS amplifies the work of our regional partners. It offers them the structure, intelligence, and interoperability needed to scale their impact. This model ensures that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—and that our shared mission of economic growth, innovation, and prosperity can be achieved collaboratively, efficiently, and measurably.
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Measuring What Matters
As a think and do tank focused on creating and deploying an economic development operating system and strategic applications in support of enterprise and innovation growth across the region, EnterpriseKC is accountable for results. In a traditional economic development context, results are often anecdotal, disconnected, or difficult to track across time and programs. In contrast, EnterpriseKC’s Operating System is designed to produce and report real-time, quantifiable outputs that show how well the operating system is allocating resources, scaling applications, and optimizing for growth across its execution environments (clusters). They are not just outcomes — they are signals of system health, alignment, and regional economic lift.
What We Measure – And Why
Each output is tied to a core subsystem of the EKC Operating System. Together, they define a feedback loop that powers continuous optimization and accountability across the ecosystem. EnterpriseKC’s Operating System is designed to optimize toward four high-leverage, interdependent performance outputs:
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Net-New Primary Enterprises
These are the “active workloads” of our economic operating system — the companies that generate revenue from outside the region and import dollars into the local economy. o Metrics: Year-over-year increase in net-new primary enterprise count and average revenue growth of existing enterprises within priority clusters. o Why it matters: Enterprises are the most efficient engines of economic gain — producing high-value jobs, funding R&D, and multiplying regional income.
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High-Value, High-Opportunity Jobs
The region’s “compute capacity” is its people. EKC focuses on talent roles that pay well, are in high demand, align with future- facing sectors and can be performed in communities of any size or geographic location.
o Metrics : Year-over-year growth in high-value job placements, average wage, and mobility pathways in high-opportunity roles across clusters. o Why it matters: These roles anchor the workforce in the innovation economy and create inclusive pathways to prosperity.
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