As the partial U.S. government shutdown has moved into its third week with no end in sight, the nation’s press is increasingly focused on the ripple affect it is having on various sectors of the U.S. economy. An example is a recent article in the Washington Post that discussed how the lack of pay for Forest Service (FS) employees concentrated around Ogden, Utah – far away from Washington, DC – is affecting local retail businesses. The FS is an agency of USDA, and many of its employees are deemed “non-essential.” They are thus furloughed without pay until the shutdown ends. Numerous USDA employees in other agencies are also considered non-essential, including those who compile the many reports on crop productio...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.