Mission and Strategy
Our mission is to create jobs, help companies expand and develop their workforce, and identify opportunities to bring new companies into our state.
The long term plan to reposition Rhode Island's economy remains focused on growth in knowledge-based, innovation economy industries that will provide Rhode Islanders with more high-wage job opportunities. Inside is a link to search companies that are currently hiring.
Providence is the right place.
For many people, work is a drag. For Jim Lavoie, it's a game – literally. Lavoie, CEO of Rite-Solutions, utilizes a mock stock market called "Mutual Fun" in which employees of the information technology firm are given $10,000 in fantasy money to invest in various "stocks" – in reality, technologies, products and cost-saving measures they think Rite-Solutions should be focusing on.