Urban Leap Accelerating Urban Innovation
Urban innovation can Increase the efficiency of urban systems Improve the efficacy of public services Assure the resiliency of the community
Citizen perceptions are generally positive and yet 82% 68% in large cities 1 in small towns 1 Only 10% - 23% of urban innovation projects Local governments are are successful 3 enthusiastic as well 87% 9.9% CAGR positive 1 in projects 2 1) CompTIA Building Smarter Cities Study 2018 2) Navigant Research Smart City Projects 1Q18 3) Cisco 2017, Zabala 2018, Gartner Group 2018
Why are success rates so low? Governments at all levels lack the capabilities needed to discover & evaluate solutions and manage urban innovation projects in a low-risk, transparent way. Key Barriers Traditional tools & processes Limited resources Organizational silos not designed to validate and expertise, little or no and cultural norms solutions via small scale test sharing of best practices inhibit collaboration
Introducing UrbanLeap An innovation management platform to coordinate all your smart urban initiatives in one place. ➢ Cloud-based Solution: customizable, deployable software package providing a robust technical environment to manage projects of any size with an unlimited number of proposals and participants. ➢ Testing & Evaluation Process: organizations can solicit inputs, at scale, from inside or outside the unit, and rigorously scope, plan, execute, and evaluate potential solutions prior to adoption. ➢ Risk Mitigation & Avoidance : enables organizations to test and refine solutions – and actively seek the input and opinions of all key stakeholders - prior to the development of an RFP/RFQ. ➢ Community Building: share results, lessons learned, and best practices with key stakeholders and like-minded cities and municipalities.
UrbanLeap adds value across the innovation lifecycle Challenge Outcome Discover & Select Plan & Collaborate Test & Evaluate Share & Learn • Discover, collect and evaluate proposals all in one place. • Streamline and standardize the submission and evaluation process across teams. • Automate workflows across multiple departments and vendors. Increase engagement with automated reports and hard data on KPIs & project milestones. • • Optimize resources within projects and across innovation portfolio based on outcomes. • Share learnings and results with like-minded organizations, collaborate on best practices.
Delivering outcomes that matter ✓ Accelerate project pace 200+ Innovation Projects ✓ Improve success rates ✓ Increase transparency
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Core Features of the Platform Built-In Forms Planning Wizard Contract Generation Data Management Standardize your project With built-in best practices Don’t reinvent the wheel – Plan, track, and manage proposals and bring them and easy collaboration, leverage contracts from project data using an into a single place using design projects that other progressive cities to intuitive and easy-to-use lightweight forms. produce better results. create pilot agreements. interface. Reports Collaboration City-wide View Network Generate and share Permissions, messaging, Identify trends, track problems Provide access to a reports with a single click, & alerts enable collaboration and optimize resources across community of leading at every stage of the across organizations, your portfolio of innovation cities - sharing data and project lifecycle. vendors and stakeholders. projects. learning from each other.
Use-Cases C. Project Testing & B. Large-Scale, A. Idea & Solution Real-Time Collaboration Evaluation Solicitation Gather project ideas and Collaborate in real-time with individuals Test new ideas and solutions prior to solutions from inside and inside and outside your organization, at any implementation, incorporate data-driven outside your organization. phase of project planning and execution. feedback pre-scaling of an initiative.
The Platform Dashboard allows user to change views and switch between projects, evaluate performance metrics, and understand current status across all lines of effort. Projects are organized according to phase: Planning , Contracting , Tracking , and Evaluating . Users get a snapshot of project status on the landing page, and can access each project with the click of a button.
Project Example: Idea Solicitation 1. Users fill out a customized template developed specifically for each Urban Leap client. This can be done inside or outside the client’s IT environment. 2. Vendors are notified when their idea or proposal has been successfully submitted to the client organization and is ready to be reviewed.
Project Example: Real-Time Collaboration 3. Each new idea has its own dedicated space on the platform. Team members are listed, and can be adjusted over the project lifecycle. Participants can come from inside or outside the government sponsor, and can include Industry participation where appropriate. All participants have access to the project idea and proposed scope. They can strategize approach, raise questions about execution feasibility, and dissect any item related to performance parameters directly through the platform.
Project Example: Real-Time Collaboration 4. Customized templates are built incorporated directly onto the platform to allow participants to collectively assess and agree-to all Key Performance Parameters for each project. The platform shows participants who are authorized to perform a given activity. That participation can be controlled by the client organization in coordination with Urban Leap. The status of each participant’s involvement can also be tracked directly through the platform.
Project Example: Real-Time Collaboration 5. The platform is able to capture the inputs of all participants and provide a final, synthesized output reflecting the contributions of each participant. In this example, the participants have collaborated on the project’s: • Overarching description and goals • Attendant risks • Key deliverables • Project milestones
Project Example: Real-Time Collaboration Platform shows status of each person’s involvement Users can communicate about the project directly in the platform. All comments are captured, archived, and tied back to their original author. Users can upload any additional documentation needed for evaluation and discussions purposes directly through the platform.
Project Example: Testing & Evaluation 6. Technical progress is monitored Users can generate and visible to all participants. customized metrics to evaluate and track project performance over its lifecycle. Metrics can be project- specific or standardized Users can track and monitor project across all efforts that are status at any phase of project similar in scope or scale. completion. Clients can choose from The platform allows users to make amongst a number of pre- notes regarding project status for determined templates all participants to see and provided by Urban Leap, comment on. or they can build their own.
Project Example: Testing & Evaluation The platform shows whether the project’s overarching goals 7. A final evaluation of the project were met. Those outcomes can is made by participants, including be shown in further detail. what the recommended next step should be. Users can also see the detailed results of milestone achieve- Ment over the course of the The platform allows users to make project’s lifetime. a final, collective evaluation of the project at hand. The platform provides an high- level summary of those results, Leadership can determine how which can be incorporated into they want to move forward; in this requisite project documentation. case, they’ve chosen a sole source procurement based on the strength of the vendor’s solution.
Benefits Project Teams City Leadership Vendors ● On-demand view of city-wide ● Enabling startups to present their ● Automated, repeatable workflow innovation efforts solution to decision makers ● Process guidance ● Insight into trends and impact of ● Active involvement in the process ● Coordinated efforts innovation goals ● Increase pilot’s success rates ● Learn from other cities in the ● Easy, transparent collaboration community Citizens Earlier access to appropriate services and technologies Better outcomes delivered
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