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Digital Twins Can Enable Smart, Agile, Sustainable Cities

Posted February 23, 2021 | Leadership | Technology | Amplify
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Jacqueline Corbett, Adnène Hajji, and Sehl Mellouli discuss how digital twins can promote smart, agile, sustainable cities. First, the authors present the concept of organizational agility and the ways it promotes organizational success. Then, they explain how digital twin dimensions and capabilities support and contribute to organizational agility. The authors also present some examples and conclude with recom­mendations for cities in their consideration for the use of digital twins.
About The Author
Jacqueline Corbett
Jacqueline Corbett is Professor of Management Information Systems in the Faculty of Business Administration and Director of the Centre for Research and Cocreation for Innovation and Sustainable Indigenous Business at Université Laval, Canada. Her research focuses on the design and use of IS to support sustainable development, with specific interests in energy security and justice, weaving Indigenous knowledge in digital innovation and… Read More
Adnène Hajji
Adnène Hajji is Full Professor of Operations and Decision Systems and a member of the Center for Research on Intelligent Communities (CeRCI) at Université Laval, Canada. Dr. Hajji is also a member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). His main research interests include production system modeling and control, simulation, integrated reactive models in ERP systems, performance… Read More
Sehl Mellouli
Sehl Mellouli is Full Professor of Management Information Systems and a member of the Center for Research on Intelligent Communities (CeRCI) at Université Laval, Canada. Dr. Mellouli is also a member of the Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). His main research interests include smart cities, smart government, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. Dr.… Read More
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