GIS Planning has always felt like a family to those of us who have worked here over the past 25 years, and we've always seen our clients as part of the family. We're fortunate to have extended this family to our entire team in the newly expended fDi Intelligence portfolio. That's a lot of people around our virtual table ..read more

Is it difficult for your organization to incorporate economic development and investment promotion into a conventional CRM? Are you currently organizing information, leads, and contacts using multiple spreadsheets, online documents, and basic databases? We have good news for you: You don't have to resort to a patchwork solution or overspend on unnecessary bells and whistles for a dedicated CRM ..read more

Without question, the very best part of GIS Planning's many years in business is our relationship with our clients. We have learned so much from them, developed some of our most popular features in response to their requests, and spent many happy hours in conversation with them at conferences, restaurants and bars (you know who you are!) over the years. We take great pride in the number of long-time clients who have joined us on our journey of economic development innovation. We knew there were many of them but it had been some time since we dove into the numbers, and we were quite overcome t ..read more

Economic development professionals work hard to gain the skills and expertise needed to represent their regions. This means not only the foundational education on corporate strategies, commercial real estate, foreign direct investment, site readiness, place marketing, and more but also staying on top of constantly shifting market dynamics and industry trends. The new e-learning platform launched as part of fDi Institute puts this professional development easily within reach - no matter where you are located ..read more

Canadian economic development organizations will be delighted to see that we've added a new Talent Pool report to all ZoomProspector location analysis tools and Intelligence Components. This report enables Canadian cities, counties, regions and provinces to provide critical workforce data for research and analysis to site selectors and businesses making location decisions ..read more

I'm looking forward to reconnecting with many clients at ICSC Las Vegas next week and it's got me thinking about the ways economic developers expend resources, time, and energy into promoting their locations to site selectors and expanding business. GIS Planning clients are at a tremendous advantage because they can really leverage the power of our data tools on the road ..read more

Don't bury your leads! Your available commercial sites and buildings are going to generate interest from site selectors and potential investors, so GIS Planning has made it easy for them to shine on any of your website pages with the all-new Property Display Widget. This easy-to-use widget drives more qualified leads to your ZoomProspector location analysis web tool by promoting featured properties wherever you want to put them ..read more

A few weeks ago, we broke the exciting news that the Financial Times had acquired WAVTEQ products and services (excluding lead gen); our newly expanded fDi Intelligence portfolio of products makes us the world's leading economic development services company.  ..read more

Investors, community stakeholders, site selectors, realtors, and businesses searching for key site selection data in Northeast Louisiana can now turn to the powerful, interactive online tools built into the enhanced website for North Delta Regional Planning and Development District (North Delta RPDD ..read more

Ever since the release of ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI tool (or should we call it Sydney?), pundits have been spinning in circles analyzing the many threats, opportunities and transformative capabilities of artificial intelligence on everything from plagiarism to employment and government policies. Having made this irrevocable leap into machine learning, economic developers everywhere may be interested to learn more about AI tools that can help enhance productivity and improve efficiency, so they can concentrate on the overall strategy that helps them support local businesses, attract inve ..read more