Empowered Citizens in the Smart City: Emergence as Theory for Societal Change
Citizenship should not be determined by algorithms. Citizenship should be allowed to flourish through critical thought rather than trying to define it via economic and software parameters. Not long ago, we discussed how the future in the city would look if we think...
Traffic Congestion in the City: A Strategic Alliances & Systems Thinking Opportunity
We need to upgrade the approach to solving the traffic flow in the cities for 2030 and beyond. Cities around the world are taking multiple approaches, and widening roads to accommodate more traffic is not the solution. Several city officials around the world, and...
Will Technology Solve Our Problems? Future in the City According to Technology Theory
This is why the term "Smart City" should not be a badge but the behavior of its citizens and public servants. The following is an excerpt from our white paper "Future in the City: Technology and Emergence" One could say that technology-driven empowerment is creating...
Smart Leadership for Smart City Success
Cities need to grow “smart leadership” capability in its public leaders and citizenry in order to create government-citizen engagement, innovate, and build opportunity for citizens in the Smart City Ecosystem. Our article was first featured in SmartCitiesWorld Smart...
Mental Models & Seeing the Future
We become blind to the future because we see the future as a representation of an improved present. In this time of year, many of us look forward into the future and think, “What will the future bring?” The thought is exciting, especially if you have plans underway....
What Will the Future Hold? City Sprawl & Systems Dynamics
Instead of extending the current design-for-the-car into the future, we could shift the key variables of the current system and design a future that empowers environment and citizen mobility. In early 2017, we became homeowners and moved to our new home right after my...
What’s Changing?
Many leaders in organizations acknowledge that change is a constant. Nevertheless, only a small number of those leaders really understand the magnitude of the change happening around them. For that reason, we feel that in any discussion of leading change or strategic...
Qualities of Leading Innovators: On Developing People
If one is to explore the characteristics of a person who effectively leads innovation, then it would be natural to discuss leadership styles. Which one is it? In writing this last post on leading innovators, servant leadership as a style to describe these great...
Qualities of Leading Innovators: On Networks
The primary unit of innovation is not the individual. Instead, it is the network that extends inside and outside [the organization]. –Making Innovation Work, Davila, Epstein & Shelton The previous post about leading innovators may make a reader believe that the...