Valdosta #51 of 379!
Closest MSAs as green on
the map are Auburn-Opelika #37,
Atlanta #41, Charleston #11, and
Nashville, TN at #14.
Highest weighted components are for
growth in jobs, wages, and salaries,
so apparently there has been some improvement in those areas.
Here are the rank components from
the PDF report,
plus the corresponding scores from
www.best-cities.org:
Rank
Job Growth
Wage Growth
Short-Term Job Growth
High-Tech GDP Growth
High-Tech GDP LQ
Number of High-Tech Industries
Change
2012
2013
2007-12
2011-12
2006-11
2010-11
7/2012- 7/2013
2007-12
2011-12
2012
with LQ≥1
2012
50
101
51
128
33
73
133
84
15
4
76
13
Score
97.36
100.68
102.32
97.65
109.89%
129.20
119.63
0.56
6.0
The five job growth components are weighted 1/7th each,
and the four high-tech components are weighted half as much,
1/14th each.
The first four scores appear to be relative to 100 for the entire U.S.
Where exactly
Milliken Institute
got their data is not clear,
especially for
these: Continue reading →
What about supplier diversity outreach efforts at Southern Company (SO), asked David (didn’t get his last name; sorry). SO CEO Thomas A. Fanning responded that those efforts were critically important, and part of how they got paid. CEO Fanning added:
When you think about building a nuclear plant, you’re procuring great big huge scale equipment. The minority suppliers really don’t lend themselves to say a gigantic steam turbine or a reactor vessel. But where we can use diverse suppliers in our supply chain efforts, we absolutely do undertake to make sure that they have an opportunity to compete for the business, and we can coach them along to make sure that they are ultimately successful.
Perhaps this monoculture of suppliers for huge equipment is yet another flaw in building mainframes in a networked-tablet world. They could get a lot more diversity by deploying solar power plants throughout sunny south Georgia, especially if they included financing housetop and business roof solar.
Earlier CEO Fanning had gone on at some length about diversity on SO’s all-white board, saying that SO didn’t measure diversity by such metrics as race or ethnicity or gender. Some people wonder if they measure it by different majors at Auburn or Georgia Tech. Not to be ungenerous, I do applaud SO for their diversity outreach efforts.
Supplier diversity outreach –David ? Shareholder Meeting, Southern Company (SO), Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Georgia, 23 May 2012. Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
Valdosta #51 of 379!
Closest MSAs as green on
the map are Auburn-Opelika #37,
Atlanta #41, Charleston #11, and
Nashville, TN at #14.
