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Delivering Award-Winning Smart City and Digital Transformation Advisory Services to Cities and Companies
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Smart City Master Planning
Comprehensive analysis to combine the city’s mission, vision, and goals with design thinking to create an actionable, ROI-driven plan and roadmap
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Initial Smart City Impact Analysis
Analysis to identify high potential ROI and quick-win opportunities. Analysis includes financial, social (digital divide and equity), and economic development impact.
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Smart Sustainability Analysis and Plan
Geared towards private sector companies (from <$50M revenue to publicly traded companies), analyze or create a custom-tailored sustainability plan focused on technology and data to achieve your sustainability goals.
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Climate Action Plan Smart Technology Analysis
Developed for local government, analyze your city’s climate action plan to create a tactical implementation roadmap using smart technologies to achieve your goals. Includes ROI analysis, impact calculations, risk modeling, etc.
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Smart Public Safety Advisory
Analyze your city’s public safety needs (crime and vehicle-pedestrian safety) to create a tactical implementation roadmap using smart technologies to achieve your goals. Includes ROI analysis, public safety impact calculations, and crime reduction projections.
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Innovation District Analysis and Planning
Incorporate innovation district placemaking strategies, combines with smart city technology, to catalyze economic development. This also supports entrepreneurship initiatives
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IIJA/IRA Grant Strategy and Assistance
Identify and develop competitive grant strategy, project vision, and application assistance for IIJA/IRA-related funding opportunities (USDOT SS4A, USDOT SMART, DHS BRIC, USDOT RAISE, USDOT Charging & Fueling Infrastructure, and more)
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Citizen Engagement Events
Create and facilitate public events (one-time events, series, or long-term programs) designed to engage citizens, gain critical insights, and increase public support
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Smart City Stakeholder Education Workshop
Provides objective expertise to educate mayors, leadership teams, committee members, and community stakeholders on smart city value and ROI
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Smart City Funding
Help clients identify funds (public-private partnerships, grants, etc.), create compelling strategic narrative, and help them connect with potential funding sources
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Ongoing Digital Transformation Advisory
Sample focus areas include transportation and mobility, public safety, connectivity, technology due diligence, financial analysis, and RFP support
Why is digital transformation and smart city technology so important?
Making a community smarter through the use of technology is no longer an option; it is a necessity.
A smart city leverages advanced technologies in its infrastructure and processes to increase efficiencies to improve the quality of life and daily experiences for all residents, businesses, and visitors to a community. Through a well planned and carefully executed digital transformation plan, cities can become:
More efficient - Saves money, reduces errors, and deploys human resources where it is most needed.
More effective - Create a higher level of service delivery that produces higher levels of citizen satisfaction.
More equitable - Create better access to services, opportunities, and resources for all residents in a community.
Safer - Increase public safety that improves emergency response, saves lives, and protects property.
Climate Friendly and Sustainable - Reduce greenhouse gases, improve air quality and protect water quality.
More inclusive - Provide higher levels of inclusion, helping a community's most vulnerable populations.
More informed - Real-time, robust data-driven insights enhance a city's decision-making capabilities.
More engaged - Residents in a well-developed smart city feel more engaged in their community.
A climate for above-average economic development attracting people, employers, and opportunities.