Towards the Hybrid Management Model

Adopting hybrid management model in smart cities is one way to bring together different actors, interests, and practice to share a same vision. It is a way to simplify and clearing up uncertainties in managing multiple complicated projects such as smart city. Secinaro et al. (2021) laid out two critical steps necessary to ensure success for this management model for smart city. The most critical step is to identify the skills needed to meet the objective. With the hybrid model, municipality that may have limited human resource, can reach out to other organisation to satisfy the human capital need that have the specific skills to carry the project. Second step is to explore different actors’ relationships. It is crucial to create system where every actor can discuss and contribute to the project, as it is the absence of hierarchical order are the character to successful hybrid management model. 

A partnership between public and private interests through hybrid management pushes for a well-defined objectives, roles and action between stakeholder to reduce uncertainty and address concerns for public issues. The complex network of actors in a hybrid management also enables an environment that encourages exchange of knowledge among agents, social institutions and the technology used in smart city projects. 

Reference:

Secinaro, S., Brescia, V., Calandra, D., & Biancone, P. (2021). Towards a hybrid model for the management of smart city initiatives. Cities, 116, 103278.