LOCAL GOVERNMENT CITIZEN INSIGHT
Understand the types of people that live across the EU, their preferences and their likely demand for public services. See how your area compares with others. (Made by ESD - Porism (UK) )
See http://insight.esd-toolkit.eu/

STANDARDS LISTS

European Service and Function Lists produced by the Smart Cities project were launched and demonstrated at the project's Conference in Brussels on 14 September 2011 as part of the esd-toolkit.eu website.

Research briefs: http://www.smartcities.info/research

See also: http://www.slideshare.net/smartcities

This report shows how cities can use customer profiling and activity based costing methods to better understand their customers, to successfully market to those customers, and to generate efficiencies by fully understanding the costs of service delivery.

Public services need to adapt to the needs of their customers, the citizens. Often new e-services are technology-initiated, but the Smart Cities approach starts with the user. This guide provides an introduction to the customer journey mapping (CJM) process, and explains how CJM fits into both customer insight and business process improvement approaches. It provides practical guidelines on how to make the most of CJM.

Now that in ten locations the outdoor-info-terminals have been equipped with bluetooth-technology, BIS Bremerhaven will begin with the user survey resp. the testing of the terminal architecture, the contents and especially the handling of the bluetooth services at the centrally located terminal location „Hafeninsel“. It is important that the test persons use their personal mobile phones.

The Smart Cities project is invited by the Council of European Municipalities and Regions to present the methodologies and cases developed during the past months. The council is interested in the experiences of the Smart Cities partners and the cases of service development, the work on Customer Insight, the EU service list and the Customer Contact Contres.

On January 18th and 19th 2011 the international R&D project Smart Cities is holding an Academy regarding the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to support administrative processes in future-oriented public administrations.

Do you understand your customers? Your citizens? The communities you’re trying to help? Customer Insight - working to use data and evidence to better understand citizens and communities - is a key tool for municipalities to use if they want to deliver better, more targeted and more effective services to communities and citizens.

Customer insight needs to be on the agenda of local government. This is what speakers and attendees of the Customer Insight Conference said in Cambridge past week. About 100 local government officials attended the conference in the Moller Centre in Cambridge. The conference was organised by Smart Cities and Norfolk County Council.