Integral City Developers

Build Compassionate Bridges to the City of the Future

Integral City Developers depend on building bridges to a wider community even in developing the concept designs for their visions of the city of the future. By building bridges early, Developers install the nodes from which to grow significant meshworks through to project completion and beyond.

Here are some guidelines for partnering that build development bridges.

1. Define the Criteria for Partners/Meshworkers
   For example: Are they organizations that can offer leverage of any or all of: funds, resources, expertise, relationships and recognition.
   
   
2. Define Opportunities for Partnership
   
   • Proactive: Developer takes the lead to initiate. Will you help Developer?
   • Responsive: Other organization initiates request to participate. Will Developer help us?
   • Mutual: More than one organization originates. "How can we help each other?"
   • Combination of the above (in more complex opportunities with multiple stages.)
   
   
3. Explore Meaning of Developer Leadership in Partnering
   
   • Share the Developer Vision of "building bridges for the City of the Future".
   • Connect Developer Vision to Partnership Opportunity in a meaningful way.
   • Focus on Developer's capacity to develop partnerships for fund raising for worthy projects.
   • Utilize Developer's infrastructure for attracting, managing and allocating funds.
   
   
4. Be Aware of Expectations for Partnership in each of these Opportunities:
   
   • Partner's Values-Vision-Mission (VVM) /Intentions are aligned to Developer's VVM.
   • Partner's VVM/Intentions give significant contra-indications to Developer VVM.
   • A complementarity exists between mutual Partners' VVM's/Intentions.
   • Combination of above.
   
   
5. Consider Time and Scope of Partnerships
   
   • Experiment with shorter term partnerships to gain experience of collaboration.
   • Take responsibility for demonstrating small gains through defined stages and/or do-able goals for larger projects.
   • Dare to dream big for the long term benefit of the city/community.
   • Use "12 Questions Re Meshwork Partnering" to review Partnership implications.
   
   
6. Connect to Other Developer Goals
   
   • Look at the connection to other Developer goals — how might other organizations share mutual interests around research, and other knowledge generations? How can we identify potential meshwork partners?
   • Invite potential partners to explore mutual interests?
   • Look at existing Developer Projects to see if current partnerships offer potential for future projects.

For more ideas and references check out the Internet Resources at the Integral City Discovery Zone, Intelligent Book Shelf and Integral City Shopping Cart.

For other aspects of City Managers click on these links:

• Mesh Design, Creativity & Knowledge
• Build Compassionate Bridges to the City of the Future
• Develop and Manage Technology Systems
• Structure, Pattern and Process for the Future

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