Mission Fit Cities: Creating cities fit for the future

The Mission Fit Cities scorecard combines a rigorous and integrated set of metrics which have been selected to predict how a city will perform in the future, based on the strengths of its foundations today. It has been informed by our Generation 6 Cities research which explores the challenges our cities face and the factors that will underpin their future competitiveness, resilience and livability.

People and Planet are fundamental to future success. If we cannot support the environmental resilience of our cities, then they cannot grow; equally if a city has a weak People score it cannot progress socially or economically. Positivity and Power focus on the themes of confidence and leadership, they suggest the importance of both building momentum and having the collective capability to harness it.

Place is an important mediator of city experience, supporting inclusion, identity, wellbeing and knowledge share: it is essential to the talent agenda and a key investment in growing Performance.

A city has many systems and the future success of the city will depend on the extent to which these systems are balanced and integrated: in practical terms the success of one factor will influence the performance of the other five. We need to understand that investment in key areas can create significant improvement across the scorecard.

We’ve focused on four major Australian cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. 

We have also taken a close look at Singapore – a city-state neighbour with a gold standard Mission Fit Score which we can aspire to. 

Our research captures where cities are today, where they might be falling behind and where they can potentially take the lead if they were to capitalise on an opportunity.

Each of the key themes — people , planet, performance, positivity power, place is supported by a set of indicators and measures. We have identified how each city fulfills relevant criteria, and the metrics by which we can measure a city’s current actions.

The metrics that have been applied consist of 51 individually referenced data points, which are derived from accredited sources and updated annually. All but one has been independently sourced — making the data unimpeachable.

Download a copy of our white paper by clicking the thumbnail below, for a deep dive into the Mission Fitness and score of key Australian and international cities, including a prediction of their future success.