Product/Services Overview:
SMART CITIES CERTIFICATION: Smart City & Initiative Certification Guidelines service as the part of SDP’s Management Consulting & Government Advisory service offering for Public, Private and Social sector clients.
Product/ Service Delivery Duration:
Min 2-3 months depending upon Size of offering required and course size.
Ideal Client Type:
Public, Private and Social sector clients: International Agencies, National Governments-Ministries; Local Governments-Municipalities, Development Authorities, Smart City SPVs/ offices, Students, Researchers, Universities, Private Companies.
What is in the package of Product/Services (Deliverables)?
Smart City & Initiative Certification Courses.
Product Offering/SoW Overview:
- Smart City Fundamental Courses
- Smart City Physical Infrastructure Courses
- Smart City Innovation & Technologies Courses
- Smart City Policies, Standardization & Governance Courses
- Smart City Societal Courses
- Smart City Service Oriented Courses
- Smart City Digital Infrastructure Courses
- Smart City Management Courses
- Smart City Economics & Financials Oriented Courses
- Smart City Environment, Resilience & Sustainability Oriented Courses
Key Benefits:
- Increased efficiency of Smart City Public, Private and Social sector employees.
- Reduced supervision of Smart City projects.
- Less amount of wastage on Smart City projects.
- Reduced turnover on Smart City projects.
- Helps new employees in the organization.
- Self-confidence of Smart City projects.
- Increased motivation levels for of Smart City projects.
- High rewards of Smart City projects.
- Group efforts of Smart City projects.
- Promotion of Smart City projects.
- Improves skills and knowledge on Smart City projects
- Efficiency of a new performance management system.
- Improves ICT and computer skills on Smart City.
- Increased productivity and performance
- Uniformity of work processes
- Reduced supervision
- Promoting from within, Ensures Opportunities for Learning
- Improved organizational structure
- Improved knowledge of policies and goals
- Improved customer valuation
- Better workplace environment
- Improved and updated technology
- Boosts Employee Performance and morale, Job Satisfaction.
- Opportunity to Identify Weaknesses
- Provide a Framework to Develop Strengths
- Encourages Innovation and Risk Acceptance
- Boosts Adherence to Quality Standards
- Instills Consistency in Work Atmosphere
- Improve Reputation of Organization
- Reduces Employee Turnover Rate
Additional Free Offerings:
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SMART CITIES CERTIFICATION
- Lack of technology and smart city related capacity building.
- Systemic variances: The unbalanced and volatile person–smart city fit.
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Continuous development of ICT literacy, knowledge, talents and skills.
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Citizen participation and career communities.
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Network-centric organizing of sustainable careers in smart cities.
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Person–smart city fit is volatile as technology and organizations are continuously changing the career context in smart cities.
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Person–smart city fit is unbalanced; that is, it disadvantages the less ICT literate and lower educated individuals, and it favors the ICT literate, highly educated citizens that work in knowledge-intensive organizations
- Management and organizational challenges-Smart City projects usually involve different stakeholders. Therefore, Smart City projects need smarter management.
- Collaboration among stakeholders and governmental restraints-Another challenge is how to make stakeholders come together and achieve a sense of collective responsibility and common purpose.
- Technological challenges-Most of the Technology solutions in the Smart City space belong to advanced technologies.
- Financial constraints-Transforming the regular city into a smart one requires big budget allocations.