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3.2.3 Strategic Planning Lecture

Course subject(s) Module 3. Planning Smart Sustainable Cities Initiatives

In the following video, the lecturer Dr. Grażyna Musiatowicz-Podbiał describes how to do strategic planning step-by-step and how to use strategic planning tools such as SWOT Matrix, Balanced Scorecard, and S.M.A.R.T goals definition for Smart Sustainable City Development.

Strategic Planning for Urban Transformation

Main Takeaways

  • The strategic planning process starts with the determination of the city’s current position and its surrounding environment; ​
  • General pillars of the strategy should ensure a holistic point of view and goals  correspondence;​
  • A ‘sustainable city’ characterize the development of the city when social, economic and environmental aspects are harmoniously integrated and balanced; and,​
  • S.M.A.R.T. model helps to define achievable, specific, and measurable goals and serves well for further performance monitoring.
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