Oregon Business Plan Documents

• Annual Policy Playbook/Initiative Guides
• Legislative Short Lists
• Progress Reports and Scorecards
• Cluster Resource Guides
• Competitive Index 
• The Original Oregon Business Plan & Archived Documents
• Presentations, Additional Economic Performance Data etc.

The Oregon Business Plan is a statewide initiative of Oregon's business community to shape a vision for what the economy could look like in the decades ahead.  In January 2003, The Oregon Business Plan Steering Committee officially adopted "Stepping Up" (the first version of the Plan) and has regularly updated the Plan since that time.

We welcome your input on the documents below and you can monitor progress on all our initiatives using the Initiative Tracker.

Policy Playbook/Initiative Guides 

The Policy Playbook and Initiative Guides of the Oregon Business Plan outline the key recommendations of the Oregon Business Plan Steering Committee each year.  The recommendations contained within the Playbook or Initiative Guide are the ones that are tracked on the Oregon Business Plan Initiative Tracker.  

• 2008 Oregon Business Plan Policy Playbook/Initiative Guide 
• 2008 Oregon Cluster Resource Guide 
• 2007 Oregon Business Plan Policy Playbook/Initiative Guide 
• 2006 Oregon Business Plan Initiative Guide  
• 2005 Oregon Business Plan Legislative Guide (1/19/05, 386K)
• 2004 Summit Agenda & Initiative Guide (12/6/04, 636K)
• 2004 Oregon Business Plan Initiative Guide (4/04, 690K)
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Legislative Short Lists

The legislative short list draws from the Policy Playbook and is developed during the course of the legislative session as the recommendations presented in the Playbook are drafted as legislation.  The short list outlines the key bills that the legislature should pass before going home in order to support Oregon's strategic economic vision.    

• 2005 "Short List" for State Legislature -- Updated Online 
• 2003 "Short List" for State Legislature -- Updated Online 

Progress Reports and Scorecards

Progress reports and scorecards allow the business, elected and community leaders involved with the Oregon Business Plan to evaluate progress.  

• 2003 One-Year Plan Update & Initiative Scorecard 
• 2003 "Stepping Up Scorecard" - Six-Month Progress Report 

Competitive Index:

The Competitive Index, a joint project of the Oregon Business Plan and the Oregon Progress Board, is a guide to the state's economic competitiveness in seven key areas: general well being, traded- sector cluster health, pioneering innovation, people, place, productivity, and public finance.  The indicators in the Competitive Index measure how Oregon is doing in giving its businesses a competitive advantage over companies in other states.

• 2007 Competitive Index*
• 2006 Competitive Index 
• 2005 Competitive Index 
• 2004 Competitive Index 

*2007 Competitive Index, $10 each. To order call 503-220-0691.

Cluster Resource Guides

The state’s traded-sector industries are made up of clusters of businesses that sell their goods and services in competition with firms outside the state. These clusters—groups of similar firms, their suppliers and workers—are the key sources of Oregon’s economic prosperity.  The Cluster Resource Guide summarizes the results of focus groups and interviews with representatives of key traded sectors industry clusters in Oregon.  To learn more about clusters in Oregon, visit www.oregonclusters.org.

Original Oregon Business Plan & Background Documents:

The Original Oregon Business Plan

• Stepping Up: The Oregon Business Plan (01/03, 1.7MB)**
• Executive Summary of the Plan 
• Summary of Initiatives and Action Items for the Plan 

Initiative White Papers from Original Plan (January 2003)

• Financing Public Services
• Expanding our Capacity for Innovation
• Refocusing Economic Development
• Building World-Class K-12 Education
• Investing Differently in Post-Secondary Education
• Strengthening Engineering and Computer Science Education
• Achieving more Benefit from Our Forest Resources
• Strengthening Our Investment in Roads and Bridges
• Enhancing Cargo and Passenger Air Service
• Strengthening Our Trade Infrastructure
• Securing Land for Industrial Development and Other Critical Uses
• Streamlining Permitting
• Branding and Marketing Oregon

Discussion Papers from 2nd Annual Leadership Summit (Dec. 2003)

• Refocus Economic Development on Industry Clusters
• Providing Stable and Adequate Funding for Public Services
• Building A High Performance K-12 Education System
• Investing Differently in Post-Secondary Education
• New Opportunities for Oregon's Forest Resources
• Strengthening Our Trade Infrastructure
• Securing Land for Traded-Sector Development
• Branding and Marketing Oregon
• Containing Healthcare Costs -- Open Forum Proposal
• Disease Management in Southern Oregon -- Open Forum Proposal
• Oregon Telecommunications -- Open Forum Proposal
• Universal Public Pre-School -- Open Forum Proposal
• Increasing Management Capacity and Access to Capital -- Open Forum Proposal

**Original Oregon Business Plan, $10. To order call 503-220-0691.

Additional Economic Performance Data, Presentations, Etc.  

• Portland and Oregon Economic Performance, March 23 2008 (Presentation by OBP Steering Committee Member Randy Miller to the Portland, Oregon Rotary).  
• "Background Data: How is Oregon Doing? -- People, Place, Productivity, Pioneering Innovation" (Summer-Fall 2002, 221K)

View the the most up to date information on the all of the Oregon Business Plan initiatives using the online Initiative Tracker!

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