THE GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY PARTNERSHIP
The Greater Oklahoma City Partnership encompasses a 10-county region, working together to market Greater Oklahoma City and to provide quality client services. The partners include cities, counties, utilities, chambers of commerce, state government and other entities that employ full-time economic development professionals.
By joining forces, the members of the Greater Oklahoma City Partnership can work together to ensure that companies are fully informed of what the region has to offer.
Greater Oklahoma City Partnership Services
- Professional site location assistance
- Professional business retention and expansion (BRE) services
- Professional bioscience, aerospace and entrepreneurial assistance
- Comprehensive research modeling
- Identification of available real estate
- Hosting of site tours
- Workforce analysis
- Assistance with permitting and numerous other processes
- Assistance with determining financial resources
- Work with state and local partners for incentives and training benefits
- Host / connect with key groups such as investors, developers and bankers
- Manage Strategic Investment Program (SIP) and Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) application process for Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust (OCEDT)
- And more
For more info on the Partnership, see www.greateroklahomacity.com.
THE GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY CHAMBER
The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber is the voice of Business and the visionary organization in Oklahoma City. We are working to create a business climate that attracts new businesses and enhances growth and expansion opportunities for existing businesses. We are committed to creating value-added membership opportunities and benefits. Ultimately, we will create a community with an irresistible quality of life.
Our Strategy:
"Greater Oklahoma City" is our "product." We lead the effort to continually improve and successfully market our product. We understand that an effective, viable organization is necessary to successfully implement the strategy.
Desired Regional Outcomes:
- New Primary Jobs
- New Investment
- Higher Per Capita Income
- Increased Hotel Occupancy
- Real Estate Space Absorption
In business vernacular, the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber is a "product manager." As a product manager, we have a dual role: Our first role is to continually improve the product. The quality of the product, or the "quality of place," is a major determinant to the ability to succeed in growing and attracting quality jobs, investments, and visitors. Our second role is to successfully market the product. Successful marketing includes defining the targeted audiences, marketing to them, and successfully "closing" the sale with them. Until investments are actually made and new jobs created, there is no economic development.
Major focus areas include Product Development, Product Sales and Organizational Development.
For more info on the Chamber, see www.okcchamber.com.