Challenges with smart cities initiatives: A municipal decision makers perspective

Pierce, Paul; Andersson, Bo

doi:10.24251/hicss.2017.339

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“…Some leading global players in the ICT and consulting sectors have significantly contributed to the development of the smart city idea. However, despite these impressive investments and endeavors, the results of smart city initiatives have often been partial, and in some cases, frankly disappointing [19,20]. Faced with these failures, smart city practitioners and researchers are developing a growing awareness that the traditional organizational and management approaches are poorly equipped to address the novel challenges posed by the smart city context and goals [11].…”

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

2017

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Despite the impressive growth of smart city initiatives worldwide, an organizational theory of smart city has yet to be developed, and we lack models addressing the unprecedented organizational and management challenges that emerge in smart city contexts. Traditional models are often of little use, because smart cities pursue different goals than traditional organizations, are based on networked, cross-boundary activity systems, rely on distributed innovation processes, and imply adaptive policy-making. Complex combinations of factors may lead to vicious or virtuous cycles in smart city initiatives, but we know very little about how these factors may be identified and mapped. Based on an inductive study of a set of primary and secondary sources, we develop a framework for the configurational analysis of smart cities viewed as place-specific organizational fields. This framework identifies five key dimensions in the configurations of smart city fields; these five dimensions are mapped through five sub-frameworks, which can be used both separately as well as for an integrated analysis. Our contribution is conceived to support longitudinal studies, natural experiments and comparative analyses on smart city fields, and to improve our understanding of how different combinations of factors affect the capability of smart innovations to translate into city resilience, sustainability and quality of life. In addition, our results suggest that new forms of place-based entrepreneurship constitute the engine that allows for the dynamic collaboration between government, citizens and research centers in successful smart city organizational fields.

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

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“…The majority of smart city initiatives lack collaboration, cooperation and coordination by different private and public actors due to varying interests. Miorandi et al, 2012;Pierce and Andersson, 2017 14.…”

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Challenges for adopting and implementing IoT in smart cities

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Luthra²,

Mangla

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Purpose -The wider use of Internet of Things (IoT) makes it possible to create smart cities. The purpose of this research is to identify key IoT challenges and understand the relationship between these challenges to support the development of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach -Challenges were identified using literature review, and prioritised and elaborated by experts. The contextual interactions between the identified challenges and their importance were determined using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). To interrelate the identified challenges and promote IoT in the context of smart cities, the dynamics of interactions of these challenges were analysed using an integrated Matrice d'Impacts Croisés Multiplication Appliqués à un Classement (MICMAC)-ISM approach. MICMAC is a structured approach to categorise variables according to their driving power and dependence. Findings -Security and privacy, business models, data quality, scalability, complexity and governance were found to have strong driving power and so are key challenges to be addressed in sustainable cities projects. The main driving challenges are complexity and lack of IoT governance. IoT adoption and implementation should therefore focus on breaking down complexity in manageable parts, supported by a governance structure.Practical implications -This research can help smart city developers in addressing challenges in a phase-wise approach by first ensuring solid foundations and thereafter developing other aspects. Originality/value -A contribution originates from the integrated MICMAC-ISM approach. ISM is a technique used to identify contextual relationships among definite elements, whereas MICMAC facilitates the classification of challenges based on their driving and dependence power. The other contribution originates from creating an overview of challenges and theorising the contextual relationships and dependencies among the challenges.

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“…Although extant research recognizes that building smart communities is a multidimensional effort [9], little is known about how to utilize this concept. Designing smart communities is even more abstract, and designing collaboration between actors challenging [10]. From a sociotechnical perspective, mobilizing and integrating various actors requires more than technological advancements [11].…”

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Multilevel Design for Smart Communities – The Case of Building a Local Online Neighborhood Social Community

Grotherr¹,

Vogel²,

Semmann³

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Smart cities and communities aim for social wellbeing. Mobilizing and integrating various institutions, actors, and resources are crucial when building and instantiating smart community initiatives. The design of such an arrangement is a complex phenomenon, difficult to conduct systematically and to observe empirically. We address this challenge by applying a multilevel design framework for service systems to an ongoing design science research project. The research project pursues the goal of building a neighborhood community as an instantiation of smart communities by activating and leveraging local institutions, actors, and resources on an IT-enabled engagement platform. We demonstrate how this multilevel perspective informs the design process for building smart communities. Based on micro-level observations, the interdependence of engagement-stimulating mechanisms related to the platform's design at the meso-level, and design implications for the institutional arrangement at the macro-level are emphasized as inseparable design activities for mobilizing and integrating actors and resources.

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Challenges with smart cities initiatives: A municipal decision makers perspective

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Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Smart Cities as Organizational Fields: A Framework for Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations

Challenges for adopting and implementing IoT in smart cities

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Challenges with smart cities initiatives: A municipal decision makers perspective