At the SmarterCities forum in Berlin, IBM IBM announced that it is offering a new Smarter City Assessment Tool to help cities better understand and meet the new demands of an increasingly urbanized world.
Cities using the Smarter City Assessment Tool will provide IBM with specific data about their core operational systems (people, business, transport, communication, water and energy) which are then analyzed to benchmark a city’s overall capabilities against peer locations, highlight relative strengths and weaknesses and provide initial recommendations for improvement. The tool, which leverages research done by the IBM Institute for Business Value, is based on a methodology developed by IBM’s Global Location Strategies consulting service, which helps corporations determine the best countries and cities in which to locate businesses.
Additionally IBM’s Institute for Business Value (IBV), part of IBM Global Business Services, is doing extensive research into cities and has just published the first in a series of three studies on smarter cities.
Titled “A vision of smarter cities – How cities can lead the way into a prosperous and sustainable future”. The study outlines the new central role that cities are playing in the world economy and the associated need for cities to address their sustainability challenges by transforming their core systems -- individually as well as holistically.
Download IBV Study:
www.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html (US)
For more information:
www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27791.wss (US)