What We Do
At Diane Lupke & Associates, Inc., we specialize in helping communities rocked by rapidly changing economic forces to find their niche in the economy.
Support Communities
We support communities to shape the places where they live and work to their new realities with better data, strategic thinking, and collaborative action.
Rigorous Process
Our process is rigorous and inclusive, incorporating multiple sources of economic data, free-wheeling community conversations, expert analysis, and strategy development.
Seeing Economic Potential
Using tools such as our "competitive asset assessment", "innovation audit", and "talent finder", we can see the economic potential of every community. And, we can help you to realize it.
We Build Impactful Organizations
Diane Lupke & Associates, Inc. helps you to build impactful organizations by choosing the right leadership, attaining financial security, and enabling more complex and impactful economic development work.
Leadership
Choose the right structures and processes that make organizations more efficient and boards more energized.
We Can Help You
Select the structure that supports your aspirations; build a stronger, more engaged board, develop meaningful programming, and achieve more impactful outcomes.
Financial Security
Develop a Continuum of Capital that provides access to resources for your organization, funding for your programming, and financing for your businesses.
We Can Help You
Fill gaps in the resource chain with multiple sources of revenue and broaden the base of economic development investors. We can also help organize and build the capacity of local investors, share risk for broader coverage, and provide support to increase the success of investments.
Think Big. Start Small.
Act Fast.
Build capacity within your community to envision and carry out more complex and impactful economic development work.
We Can Help You
Think big, start small, and act fast. Lupke Consultants can help you understand your current trajectory and project the future, develop consensus among competing views, plan strategically and implement impactfully, and have confidence in your decisions. We can also help maximize resources, package complex projects, re-tool effective programming, set meaningful benchmarks, and build on your success.
We Enable Economic Discovery
Diane Lupke & Associates, Inc. enables more complete and success-relevant economic discovery through econometrics, commercial and industrial markets analysis, and elements of design thinking.
Econometrics
Using a breadth of common and proprietary economic indicators, opinion research, and mathematical models, we describe economic systems, test hypotheses, and make projections to understand how your community fits in the regional economy.
We Can Help You:
Find your most competitive clusters; know your natural, built and people assets, determine concentrations of business types, employment and occupations, and understand your potential for innovation.
Commercial & Industrial Markets Analysis
Understand concentrations and gaps in business activity while identifying competitive advantage and niche opportunities.
We Can Help You
Correct or compensate for market failures and inequities; identify retail, commercial, and industrial opportunities, and refine and target opportunities for competitive advantage.
Project Projections
To move your best opportunities to action, we help you find the right path with highly targeted analysis into project potential for success with design thinking.
We Can Help You
Model various scenarios for the highest potential impact, and determine potential for success of specific project investments.
We Create Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
At Diane Lupke & Associates, Inc. we create entrepreneurial ecosystems by identifying cluster opportunities, uncovering local talent, and facilitating regional connectivity.
Cluster Opportunities
Businesses are stronger and more resilient when they are actively engaged in business networks and cross-sector collaborations.
We Can Help You:
Map your clusters, shorten and fill gaps in the supply chain, integrate value-chain actors, support joint ventures and entrepreneur entry, and connect needed capital.
Talent Integration
Communities only reach their potential when the individual creative talents of their citizenry are nurtured and allowed to flourish.
We Can Help You:
Build a K-16 talent pipeline, uncover local untapped talent, identify career pathways & skill transferability, and realize neurodiverse potential.
Regional Connectivity
Great communities are connected. Whether through the digital technology of high-speed internet, the physical connection of bike paths, or the historic marketplace of wine trails, connectivity enhances individual places and supports entrepreneurial ecosystems.
We Can Help You:
Crowdsource ideas and solutions, link neighborhoods with regional markets, connect makers of all ages in shared workspaces, and find the convergence of diverse thinking. We also can help create place opportunities for businesses, residents and institutions to work together.
“We support and shape communities by building impactful organizations, enabling economic discovery, and fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems.”
- Diane Lupke & Associates, Inc.