{KXLG, Watertown, SD} Last month, the Watertown Development Company revealed that they had been chosen by the University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business for their Coyote Business Consulting initiative, a student-centered program designed to help strengthen businesses through strategic collaboration. Angie Yahne is the Director of Economic Development Project Management at the development company and says the USD collaboration started because of her own desire to create a survey to send to area businesses to check how they were faring…
She shares how USD became involved in the collaboration…
She worked directly with staff at USD to apply for the initiative, which will provide no-cost consulting services by USD business students to create a survey for Watertown businesses…
The data supplied from the survey will allow businesses the opportunity to seek follow-up support from the Watertown Development company…
The collaboration with USD is already underway, with a plan to deliver surveys to businesses sometime in November.