Metro Denver WIRED Initiative Solutions Teams
The Metro Denver WIRED Initiative formed four Solutions Teams to take action on WIRED research, findings from WIRED industry, education, and workforce panels, and recommendations by the WIRED Leadership Council.
The Solutions Teams are cross-disciplinary with representation from the four WIRED industries (aerospace, bioscience, energy, and information technology-software), K-12 and higher education, and the public workforce system. Each team is supported by a convener and led by team chairs.
The objectives for each team include:
- Implementation - The Solutions Teams will be responsible for taking action on the recommendations outlined in their scopes of work. Specifically, Solutions Teams will work to build partnerships, identify best practices or develop new approaches, secure resources (including WIRED funding leveraged with funding from other sources), identify measures of success, and implement programs or projects through its partners.
- Focus on Sustainability - All activities proposed or undertaken by Solutions Teams must enhance talent development in the nine-county WIRED region well beyond the end of the WIRED grant on January 31, 2010. Talent development is defined as meeting the workforce needs of industry by training and educating individuals in high demand skills. Talent development refers to the ability of individuals to constantly update their skills to provide employers with real-time access to needed talent.
- Focus on Transformation - All activities proposed or undertaken by the Solutions Teams will focus on transformation of current workforce delivery systems into a regional talent development system.
- Funding Projects and Activities - The Solutions Teams, over the course of their meetings, may develop funding proposals to submit to the Leadership Council.
There are four Solutions Teams:
- Connecting to Industry
- Metro Denver 2010
- Growing Our Own
- Optimizing Today’s Workforce