Not surprisingly, the main question at the DO stage is: “How to implement the action plans for smart and sustainable cities in order to achieve their targets?” This implies various TO DO’s. First of all, a skilled local team should be composed, consisting of the city administration and key stakeholders. It can be the same team as the team that worked on the preparation of the plan, but it might also be a (partly) newly formed team.
Subsequently, the city administration and relevant stakeholders must allocate resources to the team, such as budget, capacity etc., for the execution of the plan. At this moment, the team must draft a detailed action and/or project plan, by using a standard approach to project management. Usually this entails the organisation of a plenary meeting with all stakeholders for the kick-off of the action plans and/or projects. Meanwhile, the monitoring process should be set-up in more technical and organisational detail, and, most importantly, a “snapshot” should be taken of the current situation to be able to track progress during implementation. Subsequently, the team must organise access to relevant data and enable its sharing through the chosen urban platform. The team will also start executing the actions agreed upon in the project or action plan and manage overall progress.
Useful tools at this stage are: detailed risk management, living labs, testbeds, experimentation zones, trial and error, Smart City Information System, and traditional project management tools such as regular progress meetings and reporting. Helpful standards are: ISO 3715X Identify Infrastructure Issues, Identify Multi-sectorial Issues, ISO 37101 Management System, ISO 3712X Set Indicators for Progress, Follow-up and Reporting, to help implementing the action plan, ISO 37101 Quality Management Systems Approach.
Finally, this stage results in achieved goals of the action plans and/or projects, and progress towards KPIs that have been previously agreed upon.
STAGE 4: DO
Question:
How to implement the action plans for smart and sustainable cities in order to achieve their targets?
Tools & standards
TOOLS:
• risk management, living labs
• testbeds
• experimentation zones
• trial and error
• Smart City Information System
• traditional project management such as regular progress meetings and reporting
STANDARDS:
• ISO 3715X Identify Infrastructure Issues
• ISO 3715X Identify Multisectorial Issues
• ISO 37101 Management System
• ISO 3712X Set Indicators for Progress, Follow-up and Reporting, to help implementing the action plan
• ISO 37101 Quality Management Systems Approach
Output:
achieved goals of action plans, progress towards KPI’s