What is strategy? Here is a general definition by Michael Porter, a strategy expert and professor at Harvard Business School. He emphasizes the need for strategy to define and communicate an organization's unique position, and says that it should determine how organizational resources, skills, and competencies should be combined to create competitive advantage.
It is difficult to make the connection between the core city government functions of public safety, transportation, recreation, libraries, water and sewer and drainage systems and the above strategies.
How does becoming a destination or enhancing our reputation as a "City of Innovation" advance and improve the core government functions?
Other strategies, such as lobbying the State legislature, are completely inappropriate, especially when it is contrary to the best interests of city residents.
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