There is a strong correlation between the value of these strategies and delivery of Smart Cities outcomes. Strategy & Transformation practitioners must be integrated into Smart City engagements to assess and improve the practical application of these strategies.
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Executive Summary
Context
Smart City is gaining momentum as a core component of the Smart Planet strategy. Analysis of the importance of people in achieving successful Smart City outcomes is less prevalent than system and technology analysis. This research addresses people related Smart City strategies.
Social business is the operating platform in the Smarter City
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Complex urban transformation necessitates targeted strategies
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People Strategies for Smart Cities
December 2011
Adam Sanford, Strategy and Transformation, ANZ
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Contents
Executive Summary
Smart Citansformation strategies to overcome organisational barriers to change and drive desired behaviour change by city citizens
3. Integrate social business across organisations to create an operational platform that produces value and builds civic engagement
Research Objective
Research Outcomes
Boundaryless organisation creates the catalyst for Smart City
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information within the public sector... In the end, it´s not about electronics and software. It´s about creativity and innovation and rethinking the way we manage, which is frequently unplugged. We won't always need the utmost mobile technology or computers.
The main challenge is not how to operate the machine. It´s the barrier of subverting the culture of thinking "within the box", very common in public bureaucracy. Coordinating and working across sectors is not a tradition in Brazil. Neither is exchanging
We will always need to think about doing better and being smarter. - Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
1. Establish leadership, governance and organisation structures to facilitate collaboration across boundaries and create a catalyst for smart city innovations
Research Outcomes
The following strategies will support the delivery of successful Smart City transformation across both city citizens and the organisations that serve them: