Activities  

Outputs (Deliverables)  

Outcomes  

Benefits  

• Running a City Academy workshop; a 2-day boot camp for city, business leaders and stakeholders who need help navigating the confusing smart city marketplace, and to define the specific challenge you are seeking to address.    

• A clearly defined and prioritised list of your smart city initiatives; and   
• A benchmark report against proven critical indicators   

• An in-depth look at the most applicable global best practices that relate to your city or company  
• Identification of challenges and opportunities to build your smart city strategy.  

• Breaks down company or city ‘silos’ between departments to create an interoperable smart city strategy  
• Helps cities ‘define the question’ to build smart solutions.  

• Development of Innovation Use Cases providing a series of case studies to illustrate a vision for the future of your city where business or city priorities meet citizen needs.    

• An initial three solution cases to your top priorities to give you the details you need in order to get started.  

• To identify citizen needs with user research.  
• To understand how citizens interact with existing products and services.
  

• Solution cases provide examples for areas of ‘smart city’ focus arising from the City Academy.  
• Aids in understanding user requirements.  

• Creation of a Roadmap providing a high-level report that is the beginning of your comprehensive smart strategy.  

• A roadmap report that details your smart city journey  

• To provide a high-level economic analysis, policy and regulatory recommendations and city strategies.  
• To develop internal metrics and a business case.  

• Provides a baseline assessment and roadmap outline, on which to build a full ‘smart city’ strategy.  
• Helps build your business case for internal resources.  
• Presents market-sizing reports on the areas of your needed solutions.  

• Run an open call Supplier Challenge to help move your initial City Academy plans into action, by challenging suppliers in the smart city space to create solutions for your opportunities and challenges. 

• An open call for solutions to your specific challenges   

• To establish a pipeline of suppliers that are most appropriate for your city solutions.  
• To identify opportunities that better define the specific areas where innovations can add value.  

• Provides a target list of prospective SME and corporate partners.  
• Begins to build your smart city solutions.  
• Showcases what is possible in the supplier market.   
• Provides solution-oriented risk/return investment plans from suppliers