Business Development

Business Retention, Expansion and Recruitment Assignments:

Powers Economics works directly with businesses to evaluate their options and opportunities for growth in their primary and expanding markets. Powers Economics advises businesses looking to grow and expand, as well as communities committed to retaining valued business and attracting new ones. Powers Economics provides insight into both emerging industries and emerging markets.

Powers Economics helps clients: design and execute strategies to address workforce needs; evaluate real estate, transportation and infrastructure needs; examine relevant regulation and tax policy; build strategic partnerships; invest in community and political capital; enhance strategic civic and trade association engagement; deploy a communication plan that “gets the message out  and "tells the story”; and, diversify customer base, and increase market share. 

Capital Formation and Resource Procurement:

Powers Economics, in concert with an array of strategic partners, provides sound advice on fulfilling the financial capital needs of growing and evolving companies. From early stage funding rounds - to later stage debt and equity financing - to mature company financial restructuring, our relationship-based resources deliver financial solutions to public companies, private enterprises, and civic organizations.

Powers Economics also assists clients in assessing needs, accessing resources, and accumulating and strategically deploying critical political capital, social capital, civic capital, creative capital, and human capital to achieve their organization's objectives.

Strategic Research, Planning, and Plan Execution: 

Powers Economics provides business advisory services that broaden our clients' perspective of their market position and opportunities. Our team works with your biz-dev team to craft and tell your most compelling story – expanding your potential and maximizing your results.

Specific services include: strategic research and analysis of relevant market psychographics, industry trends; client retention and development programs including rehabilitating former client relationships; connecting clients to new strategic partners and networking opportunities; cultivating effective media relations; and, developing creative and innovative promotional campaigns.

In these historically challenging economic times, it’s important that every business have, and be working, their individual “recovery and revitalization plan”. Powers has been involved in planning and executing recovery and reorganization plans for over twenty years. Let us help you face the music, and seize the many opportunities that will flow from thoughtfully navigating a strategic course through these unprecedented turbulent times.

Understanding and Pursuing Sustainability:

Powers Economics’ strategic business planning services focus on achieving clients’ long range – sustainable objectives. Sustainability is all about making sure a product, a service, a strategy, an operation, a facility, and an organization has “legs”. It’s about staying in the game by planning and acting in ways that meet present needs without compromising abilities to meet future needs.

At Powers Economics we inform our clients’ understanding of the interaction of the economic, environmental, and equity factors that impact top and bottom line performance. Whether your enterprise is looking to design and deliver the next generation of green services or products, or simply looking to reduce it's carbon footprint and save money - our team of experts will assist you in crafting a customized, comprehensive, integrated sustainability strategy that will prepare your organization to compete and thrive in the green revolution.

In today’s economy pursuing sustainability isn’t only the right thing to do – it’s the smart and profitable thing to do. In terms of your bottom line - let Powers Economics inform you of how “green” is the new black.

Site Selection and Facilities Development:

For over thirty years, John Powers has advised a variety of clients, in multiple sectors, regarding their real estate and facility needs. From owner occupants, to investor landlords, to developers, to lessees Powers Economics delivers value to clients. By selecting, and orchestrating the work of top-flight real estate professionals in acquisition, development, design, construction, and management services, Powers Economics is uniquely qualified to guide companies in evaluating their real estate options and opportunities.

Powers Economics provides in depth market research regarding infrastructure, costs, workforce capabilities and capacity enabling clients to make well-informed decisions about selecting and developing strategic real estate investments, and operations. And, Powers Economics is well versed in identifying and securing maximum public and private incentives to accelerate the financing, entitlement, development, construction and commissioning process. Clients rely on Powers Economics to make sure no stone remains unturned in fulfilling their real estate needs.

Public Policy Advocacy, and Key Relationship Management:

Having experienced, from many perspectives, the power of fair and balanced public policy on shaping healthy communities and healthy economies; Powers Economics’ strategic partners are exceptionally skilled at deftly guiding clients through the maze of public policy and regulation that present both challenges and opportunities in the world of business.

When combined with the ability to establish and appropriately manage sound working relationships with senior public, private, and civic leaders, Powers Economics’ grasp of local community politics (all politics are local) helps position a client to participate effectively, and ethically in this important arena. In this regard, Powers Economics prides itself on always telling clients what they need to know, not necessarily what they may want to hear. At the end of the day - the most priceless assets on any balance sheet is the good will and reputation of an individual or organization – assets that Powers Economics, and its partners, value dearly and safeguard zealously.