What does it mean to be smarter?

Cortell &  IBM, believe this means that intelligence is being infused into the systems and processes that make the world work—into things no one would recognize as computers: cars, appliances, roadways, power grids, clothes, even natural systems such as agriculture and waterways.

Today, it's not a question as to whether the technology to build a smarter planet is real. Now, we need to know what to do next. How do you infuse intelligence into a system for which no one enterprise or agency is responsible? How do you bring all the necessary constituents together? How do you make the case for budget? Where should you start?

We've learned a lot over the past year about what it takes to build a smarter planet. Importantly, we’ve learned that our companies, our cities and our world are complex systems—indeed, systems of systems—that require new things of us as leaders, as workers and as citizens. A smarter planet will require a profound shift in management and governance toward far more collaborative approaches.

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