Forum 21 is dedicated to updating support services for management that can expose them to and help them develop the means to create and sustain competitive advantage and to creating an economic context in which this is feasible.

To this end Forum 21 works with key business support organizations in the public and private sectors to help them develop the innovative capabilities that can assist their clients build the business strategies, structures, systems, skills and culture necessary for success in the 21st century. We also work with national, regional and local economic development support organizations in creating the context for successful business, economic and social development.

Our role is, therefore, innovation in business and economic development and building the capability within support organizations to derive best value and impact from available budgets.

In pursuit of its objective, Forum 21 merges a deep understanding of the support needs of business in a rapidly changing competitive environment, with an understanding of international best practice in business and economic development, and an appreciation of the exigencies of business and economic development support management in public and private sector contexts.

Forum 21 has developed unique proprietary frameworks for understanding the economic and business development processes, and the means by which companies can create and sustain competitive advantage as we progress into the 21st century. These approaches, in turn, form the basis for catalyzing innovative, high value-adding strategies, structures, systems, services, staff, skills and shared values in business development support organizations.