Benchmarking Adelaide

Benchmarking Adelaide
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We sit down with passionate South Australian leaders to discuss how Adelaide compares on a global scale. Benchmarking Adelaide is an exercise undertaken by the Committee for Adelaide, in partnership with JLL, RAA, Hames Sharley, Mitsubishi Motors Australia and the City of Adelaide, to assess how Greater Adelaide can capitalise on its strengths and maximise opportunities to help the city reach its full potential. Using publicly available, real-time data, along with long-standing statistical data sets, ‘Benchmarking Adelaide’ measures Adelaide within a peer group of 20 global cities.
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The podcast delves into topics such as city competitiveness, urban innovation, governance, and sustainable development. Episodes feature discussions on benchmarking findings from peer cities like Porto, San Diego, and Austin while exploring aspects like economy, business dynamics, liveability, and sustainability, all aimed at highlighting Adelaide’s strengths and identifying growth opportunities.

We sit down with passionate South Australian leaders to discuss how Adelaide compares on a global scale. Benchmarking Adelaide is an exercise undertaken by the Committee for Adelaide, in partnership with JLL, RAA, Hames Sharley, Mitsubishi Motors Australia and the City of Adelaide, to assess how Greater Adelaide can capitalise on its strengths and maximise opportunities to help the city reach its full potential. Using publicly available, real-time data, along with long-standing statistical data sets, ‘Benchmarking Adelaide’ measures Adelaide within a peer group of 20 global cities.
In this first episode of the new Benchmarking Adelaide Podcast, Committee for Adelaide Chief Executive, Sam Dighton, chats with Dr Tim Moonen, global cities expert and Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Business of Cities.
The Business of Cities is an urban intelligence firm providing data and advice to 100 global cities. Tim leads a team of staff and associates with a global footprint – spanning London, Paris, Toronto, Belgrade and Auckland, providing cities and companies across the world with the intelligence, insights and data they need to innovate and succeed.
Tim has collaborated closely with many of the world’s leading urban thought leadership teams at OECD, World Bank, ULI and Brookings Institution and co-authored more than 50 reports and books on city competitiveness, innovation, governance and performance.
Sam speaks with Tim about the latest Benchmarking Adelaide findings, learnings for Adelaide from peer cities such as Porto, San Diego and Austin and gets Tim’s views on future opportunities of Adelaide, South Australia.

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