Ecosystem Institutional Maturity: Perspectives for CIM in Urban Management and Planning in Curitiba, Brazil: Fid-Bau Portal

Ecosystem Institutional Maturity: Perspectives for CIM in Urban Management and Planning in Curitiba, Brazil

Pereira, Augusto Pimentel / Prokopiuk, Mario

City information modeling (CIM) is an innovation in information and communication technologies (ICTs) applied to urban management and planning. However, there are still few studies that evaluate the process of diffusion, implementation, and adoption from a sociotechnical perspective. Our objective is to develop an analytical model to assess the levels of multiscale institutional maturity to support the technological diffusion. The model was tested in the context of the BIM/CIM/GIS ecosystem of Curitiba, a city with long trajectory of technology diffusion, and where the municipality has already structured actions and a well-established trajectory to apply GIS, BIM, and CIM technologies and tools. The results show that (i) the institutional maturity of the BIM/CIM/GIS ecosystem is expressed by the constructs practices and processes, previous experiences, diffusion strategies, and awareness; (ii) it is possible to build an institutional maturity assessment tool to guide the dissemination, adoption and implementation processes of the CIM. The analysis allowed the identification and quantitative explanation of an institutional maturity model in line with previous theoretical debates. Theoretical implications are (i) the explanation of an institutional maturity model capable of reading reality qualitatively and quantitatively; (ii) the approximation of theory and practice via testing of the proposed model. Empirical implications are in the constitution of a theoretically grounded diagnostic tool capable of addressing challenges in technology diffusion practices to reduce the current gap between technological evolution and the pace of change of organizations.