Oregon Business Plan

"The Oregon Business Plan in Brief The Goal: Quality Jobs. The Oregon Business Plan supports the vision of Oregon Shines II, in particular the key goal of creating more quality jobs for all Oregonian statewide. Learn more about the goal of quality jobs. The Vision: Importance of the Traded-Sector Industry Clusters. To achieve this goal, we must pay special attention to the primary sources of Oregon’s prosperity – our traded-sector industries. Businesses in these industries sell their goods and services primarily outside the state, creating jobs and bringing in new dollars that benefit local communities. Learn more about traded-sector industries. The Strategy: Four Ps, the Ingredients for Success. The ability of Oregon’s traded-sector industries to produce economic prosperity and quality jobs for Oregonians calls for creating an economic climate with the right mix of education and workforce capabilities, an attractive quality of life, reasonable business costs, and an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit statewide. We call these ingredients the four Ps – people, place, productivity, and pioneering innovation. They serve as a way to think about Oregon’s economic assets and liabilities, and potential strategies for our economic future. A fifth P, public finance, is also vital to our long-term success. We must find a way to fund public services that enable Oregon’s industries to thrive. Learn more about the four Ps. The Initiatives: The Action Items for the Plan. The challenge of the Oregon Business Plan is to identify the best mix of the four Ps – and to craft policy recommendations to move the economy forward. The Oregon Business Plan Steering Committee currently has five initiatives that it supports and tracks, including an initiative addressing education and workforce needs of Oregon companies. Learn more about the initiatives. We encourage business, community, and elected leaders to submit policy papers with suggestions for new Oregon Business Plan initiatives. See new initiative guidelines.