structural development

Hello!

The structural change working group at the ENO is almost complete! In the coming week I will write about the new colleague Heike Schleussner at this point. She enriches our AG with her expertise for all conceivable and also the still unknown questions on the subject of mobility in the district - of course with regard to structural change.

And about Lars Semrok, the studied tourism economist, who was responsible for many great events in the Landskron Kultubrauerei for many years.

structural change. This hard-to-grasp word, this phenomenon that wafts over everything that is thought and planned for the future in our district, gave our working group two intensive workshop days last week. "Thinking the district entrepreneurially" was one of the headings under which we collected ideas, "Görlitz district is looking for the superstar" was one of the others. We rolled our thoughts, we wrote ideas, we painted partition walls, we created graphics. What do the people in our district need? What do communities want, what do entrepreneurs need, what do residents want? What do we have in our district that no one else has, what makes it and its residents so unique - positively and negatively?

We discussed under professional guidance, moderated by experts from the Grantiro Think Tank, a consulting firm that is itself very excited about "thinking a county entrepreneurially". However, and this cannot be stressed enough here and elsewhere, without wanting to "wind up" anything, without repeating the mistakes of the 1990s. That's why the district didn't decide to work with a run-of-the-mill management consultancy that checks for profitability and then - of course, that always saves money - advises layoffs and closures, but for a team that is known for that Being able to turn things around for the better.

A team that used to work out lucrative, future-oriented and job-securing innovative business ideas from companies that were no longer doing so well. Checked the chances on the world markets. The companies with all their professional competence, their human expertise and the sense of togetherness of the workforce into the international market economy of the 21st century shaped by the Internet. Just as we wish for the district of Görlitz.

This will be worked out through a specially developed process, which contains roughly exactly the opposite of "processing": through the involvement of experienced employees, through interviewing people with life experience, who are not simply sent into early retirement, but are needed, to report on their experiences and the core competencies of the companies. To take the best of the old together, to think big and very far together and then to create a better future for every single employee, citizen, family and/or company founder in our district.

The funds provided by the federal government for the phase-out of coal-fired power generation will help to be able to try out and research a lot in some areas. And because the structural change is so large and planned for a very long time, we even have the chance to learn from mistakes, to make a second attempt, or to discard an idea that may not work at all - without doing it completely to fail. This is a huge opportunity and the ENO municipal team, which advises municipalities and mayors, looks forward to meeting you and your ideas very soon, along with the ENO innovation team, which will look at ideas from citizens and businesses. To collect all thoughts and ideas together, to think them through, spice them up with creative techniques and maybe soon to write the first applications for large or small, urgently needed or visionary projects for our beautiful district.

I hope I was able to make you a little curious and excited about the...big process that is to come!

Best regards

Your

Yasna