Hard problems.Clear decisions.Better cities.
CityGov Group helps municipal leaders find the structural causes of their hardest problems, and gives them decisions they can implement and verify.
Cities rarely lack effort. What they lack is a clear view of why problems persist, and decisions they can actually carry out.
Fig. 02 — Flatiron District, New York
Grounded in the CityGov network
Our work draws on what we learn every day from public servants across the CityGov platform.
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Diagnose
We find the structural causes behind an urgent problem: the policies, processes, incentives and capacity that keep it in place.
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Decide
We turn what we find into a short list of concrete decisions, sequenced and assigned, that leaders can act on.
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Verify
We set out how each decision will be measured, so your city can see whether it worked and adjust if it didn't.
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Public Safety Institutional Diagnostic
A focused engagement that finds the structural causes of an urgent public-safety problem and gives your city decisions it can implement and verify.