10 Ways City Managers Gain from Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi)

Gains for : Constituents, City/Municipality, Region

1.       SDi is natural – City practices developed with SDi natural design principles enable the natural flow of services to users

2.       SDi transcends and includes multiple service modalities – constituents can systematically build upon and re-frame their responsibility for knowledge, relationships and awareness of self, others and the world as they benefit from services delivered by the City and/or Region

3.       SDi is a framework of service frameworks – constituents develop strategies for benefiting from and integrating ever complexifying services, information, relationships and collaborations

4.       SDi builds capacity – it offers a way of seeing the world that expands with the resident-user and City service provider and stretches their views in a natural, self-interested evolutionary way

5.       SDi is based on research – the approach to service and learning complex adaptive responses is flexible for multi-cultural, trans-cultural, and global cultural City environments

6.       SDi is a natural design tool for City service providers – it provides a human systems framework to create appropriate service and infrastructure delivery modes, practices and collaboration opportunities

7.       SDi presents four City service lenses: bio/psycho/cultural/social – City service providers can use these four lenses to organize and deliver services, develop relationships and offer information to multiple constituents and environments

8.       SDi gives City service providers a tool to relate to the (often differing) perspectives of community, families, individuals and City organizations – City service providers can build bridges between users and neighbourhoods and the City and vice versa

9.       SDi offers a framework of multi-sectoral service frameworks that embraces horizontal, vertical and adaptive conditions – this enables flexibility and resilience as well as coherent delivery to constituents in a variety of life conditions and service collaborations including PPP

10.   SDi provides a multi-disciplinary platform for organizing City service provision, collaboration and regional organization, to expand capacity and improve efficiency and effectiveness at all levels of scale – this enables urban strategic, accountable and systemic achievement

Where is SDi being used in Cities?  Calgary City Waste Management; Calgary City Water Management; Ottawa City Emergency Planning; University of Manitoba Urban Planning; University of Tennessee School of Architecture; What’s Working LEED Building – LA, Boulder, etc.; Westlake, Texas; Grapevine Texas

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