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2) Creating target company profiles for the types of company that would serve as initial focal points for an enterprise networks, and 3) Designing an action plan for adding the profile-type companies to the region and to begin developing the enterprise network. The Project Team proposes athree-phase project to help the ENSA Project Workgroup accomplish these tasks: • Phase One: Industry Overviews and Potential Supplier Analyses • Phase Two: Enterprise Network Feasibility Assessment • Phase Three: Enterprise Network Action Plan Each of these tasks is addressed in detail below. A. Phase One: Industry Overviews and Potential SuppiierAnalyses The proposed outcome of Phase One is the selection of the target industry with the greatest likelihood of success. Extensive work already has been completed using the ENS tool and a variety of national and local data sources to narrow the list of potentially targeted industries to six. This process has relied on economic data analysis and local economic development knowledge. Selecting a target industry involves blending two perspectives. The industry should be a "good bet" in terms of its prospects for future success and it should be a "good fit" in relation to the West Metro Fringe region. i. Industry Overviews The Project Team proposes to employ secondary research methods and selected expert interviews to produce industry overviews of the six potentially targeted industries in Phase One. Industry overviews will be used to evaluate the extent to which the industry is a "good bet" and to support the target company profiling work that will follow in Phase Two. Industry overviews will address the following items: • Products and Apulications. Except for dry pasta manufacturing and prefabricated metal building manufacturing, the potentially targeted industries produce a fairly diverse range of products. Products in all the industries have many applications. Understanding the mix of products and applications in an industry will be helpful in deciding what type of company to attempt to introduce to the region. • End-use Industries. Given the mix of products and applications in a potentially targeted industry, the next step will be to identify primary end-use industries. National input-output data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis will be helpful here, but will be complemented with industry sources to incorporate perspective. Minnesota Technology, Inc. and Knowledge Based Solutions West Metro Fringe Enterprise Network Systems Analysis Protect Proposal May 24, 2006 Page 2