There’s an old saying that every organisation is optimised to achieve the results it currently gets. The implication is that, in order to get new results, we must respond differently by taking on novel means of evaluating problems, spotting opportunities, and working together.
CEOs For Cities has launched an interesting project – the US Initiative. Whilst CEOs for Cities is purely focused on the United States, the organisation’s goals, model, and projects could easily be tailored for New Zealand.
You’ve heard of software-as-a-service (SaaS)? Well, Cisco intends to offer cities as a service, bundling urban necessities – water, power, traffic, telephony – into a single, Internet-enabled utility, taking a little extra off the top of every resident’s bill.
