How to select and buy products, services and systems that will work well together.
The need to get diverse systems, products and services to work well together and with the web platform introduces significant new requirements and selection criteria into all procurement processes. These new criteria need to be understood and assessed for all new system procurement.
A guidance document should be created and disseminated that explains the relative importance of particular system attributes and the impact of not meeting the required standards so that informed and pragmatic procurement decisions can be made.
The Connected City 