DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY MAKING CITIES MORE RESILIENT

As urban areas continue to expand and grow, the technology is developing alongside enhancing sustainability and better serve humanity. This also helps to utilize technology to improve their urban planning process.

Innovations Group is a manpower outsourcing company in the white- and blue-collar space across GCC and Eastern Europe. They also offer recruitment services to their clients.

Cultural and economic settings are often perceived as key influential elements in formulating the business ecosystem, either on the organizations level or the entire social system. In their different forms, culture and economic conditions have always been critical drivers for innovation and entrepreneurship. Understanding the community’s cultural traits and economic status helps business map their objectives.

A diverse workplace allows for more ideas and processes. This diversity of talent means a broader range of skills among employees, as well as a diversity of experiences and perspectives which increases the potential for increased productivity. Technology helps increase the efficiency of systems, products, and services. It helps track and streamline processes, maintain data flow, and manage contacts and employee records. This increased efficiency in operation helps reduce costs as well as enables the business to grow rapidly.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: THE PILLARS OF URBAN PLANNING AND PROCESSES

Foundational technologies for cities, which include cloud computing, data analytics, mobile communications, and social applications, have a critical role in supporting urban resilience. Without the deliberate use and integration of

RAVI JETHWANI CEO, Innovations Group

Key Takeaways

l Understanding the community’s cultural traits and economic status helps business map their objectives.

l Harnessing the power of technology is a way to overcome the challenges of urbanization.

l Recycling at the workplace is an easy way to reduce the carbon footprint in an organization.

technology in approaching resilience, cities will be illequipped to address the shocks and stresses that are rising with the phenomena of rapid urbanization, climate change, and globalization. Harnessing the power of technology is a way to mitigate the challenges of urbanization and help catalyze urban resilience. The most important step for cities to leverage the full capabilities of technology to support urban resilience will be to build a culture that supports innovation and the adoption of new technologies and the change these technologies will drive. This is more important than funding, procurement, or security.

Recycling at your workplace is one easy way to reduce your organization’s carbon footprint. When they recycle, they reduce the number of raw materials that need to be sourced to create products from scratch. When it comes to paper recycling, something else to be mindful of is confidential paperwork. At Shred Station, they both use and recommend to others a “Shred Everything” policy. This will avoid the potential cost risk of an employee making the wrong call when it comes to which documents need shredding and minimizes the risk of a data breach. If your business uses an external shredding company for your regular shredding services, the provider should –at a minimum – be recycling 100% of the paper they shred on your behalf.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, A PATH TO INNOVATION

Digital Transformation is a never-ending journey with no fixed destination. They took this plunge four years back and started the journey of digital transformation. They tried to integrate technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to its customers. It was also a cultural change that required organization to continually challenge the status quo, experiment, and get comfortable with failure.

They have completed the implementation of various tech solutions from Jobseeker, employee, and client perspectives. Their Tech solutions are Innovations Recruiter ATS, Innovations Job portal, Deployer Portal, Client Dashboard, and Employee Self Service Portal.

Rolling out the policy and procedure manual for Specialized Business Verticals was the significant contribution to the company in 2022. It has helped the organization to focus on developing the Centre of Excellences (COEs) for specialized business segments. Technology is an integral part of their overall strategy for 2023. Below are the organization’s strategic initiatives for 2023: l Focusing on developing specialized business verticals l They continue doing what they are best at, by offering tailor-made solutions for clients and persist on process optimization at the same time l Focus on growth in different sectors by building in-house capabilities and extending their capacities to different geographies

If technology is used in the right way, urban planners can address and solve the current urban challenges. Technology is of course a critical part of the company’s overall strategy today and in the future. n