Project profiles

Client:
Nova Scotia Culture Sector; including leaders from the Nova Scotia Arts Council, Nova Scotia Economic Development and Tourism, Canadian Heritage, and others. The culture sector has a direct impact of over $445.7 million on the provincial economy, and over 21,000 jobs.

Consulting Services:
Sectoral economic development strategy, large scale consultation and consensus building process, conference design and facilitation

Synopsis:
This is the first time that any Canadian province has undertaken such an ambitious project. The goal of the project was to create a shared vision and framework for cultural development with an economic focus. The framework was made up of the goals, initiatives and recommended actions for five years that would shape the direction of the culture sector. For the purposes of the strategy, the culture sector was defined to include the sub-sectors of the arts, crafts, cultural industries, design, and heritage facets of the sector.

The project involved an extensive consultation process, supported by a variety of sophisticated project management techniques (e.g. Microsoft project, web-based project sites to improve communications) and creative processes to assist this diverse group to reach agreement and make decisions. The project involved the design and coordination of a large conference to validate the strategy.

The Strategy, Culture in the New Millennium is the foundation document upon which continued growth for this sector is based.

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