Smart Cities in Europe Innovation Metrics - A Whole Brain Strategy by Mike Brown Metrics strategy is a vital topic relative to innovation. Depsite how important metrics strategy is, it's a challenging one for many businesses when it comes to innovation. Going back through my own experiences and secondary research on innovation metrics, here are a few starting thoughts on developing your metrics strategy: Begin developing your innovation metrics strategy by determining what factors drive ROI. Adopt a "whole-brain metrics" orientation. Within the whole-brain approach, consider three distinct types of metrics related to innovation: Culture Metrics - If your innovation efforts are part of an overall push to instill a more innovative approach to a department, business unit, or company, culture-based metrics help track how solidly the effort has taken hold. This is hardly an exhaustive treatment on innovation metrics strategy, but it can be a good starter for expanding what you're doing now.
Towards a low-carbon future — SETIS The Information System for the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) The European Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan aims to transform energy production and use in the EU with the goal of achieving EU worldwide leadership in the production of energy technological solutions capable of delivering EU 2020 and 2050 targets. The move towards a low-carbon Europe requires innovative research, effective strategic planning and an emphasis on timely and appropriate action. SET-Plan and SETIS Overview The European Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan aims to transform energy production and use in the EU with the goal of achieving EU worldwide leadership in the production of energy technological solutions capable of delivering EU 2020 and 2050 targets. SET-Plan A fourth Communication, in 2013, is expected to reinforce the modalities of the SET-Plan implementation, as the overarching umbrella for energy research and innovation for the Horizon 2020 initiative.
Bank Innovation smart cities Merged bank uses guerilla tactics to launch new brand » The Financial Brand: Marketing Insights for Banks & Credit Unions “What we tried to do is replicate the surprise and delight tactics that happen within each TD Bank store.” – Greg Siano, EVP/Tierney Communications After a few naming hiccups earlier in the marriage, TD Banknorth and Commerce Bank have just christened their first major branding campaign under the name TD Bank. The campaign is built around Commerce Bank’s slogan, “America’s Most Convenient Bank,” something it had been using for years. TD Banknorth decided to retain the Commerce slogan post-merger. A launch promo, running through this month, expresses the “convenience” theme by providing over a million free services to those ranging from Connecticut to Florida. Some will win a personal chef, chauffeur or house cleaner in the “At Your Convenience” sweepstakes. The “Random Acts of Convenience” guerrilla launch includes: TD Bank will also be partnering with over a thousand pizza parlors and dry cleaners to offer “Convenience Surprises,” pies and laundry to your door — at no charge.
Welcome ! | Opencities Open Cities challenges are designed around four themes: open data, crowdsourcing, urban labs and fiber-to-the-home. The challenges are open for individuals and organizations and aim to foster the development of products and services based on the platforms provided by the participating cities. The Innovation Challenge Share your ideas and win! The Open cities project calls for developers to collaboratively brainstorm in our Open Data Forum about these two Open Data problems: >read more Open Cities app challenge App Winner: BlindSquare Are you developing apps using open data? This challenge calls for apps using any kind of open data. Urban Lab challenge Project Winner: LPW (Leaves Performative Walls) Test your project in a real urban environment! This challenge offers participants a chance to install their product in a dedicated space in the city. Open Platform for Broadband Services Test your broadband service in real life! Crowdsourcing challenge Make your city SMARTER!
InnovationTools.com: The world's largest and most trusted innovation website OpenCities — Opencities Innovator Inside by Stanza. The Global soundmaps project. An online open source database of city sounds field recriding and soundmaps from around the world. Initially all sounds by Stanza you can now contribute your own found sounds. Soundcities is an online database of t The soundmaps and the database can be listened to, used in performances, or played on mobiles via wireless networks. Initially all sounds by Stanza, you can now contribute your own found sounds. Special feature if you go to the world soundmap you can click to go via KML files onto google earth. New installation uses 170 speakers in spatialised system see New Soundmaps software uses new system to mix and gather the sounds online see. Soundcities is an open online database of the thousands of sounds from around the world and you can visits the various cities and create soundmaps.. Soundcities was the first online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world, using found sounds and field recording. The sounds of cities also give clues to the emotional and responsive way we interact with our cities. A growing labyrinth, a community of aural cityscapes and collages is now evolving. I have spent the last 20 years travelling to over 20 worldwide cities. 1. 2. 3 .
Urban Omnibus | 50 Ideas for the New City The Omnibus is all about ideas. From the beginning, Urban Omnibus has been a showcase of good ideas for the future of cities, conceived in the public interest and tried and tested in the five boroughs of New York. So, we have decided to surface some of the ideas that have appeared on Urban Omnibus over the past two years and broadcast them around the city. In April 2011, we released a series of Idea Posters, pasted on fences, scaffolds and storefronts from Jamaica, Queens, to the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and many places in between. Below you will find 50 ideas for New York already explored on Urban Omnibus and a space for you to share your own.