Technology & Innovation

Office of Civic Innovation

Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) - OCI serves as the City's problem-solving team and capacity-building function by leveraging its design, data, and service delivery expertise to support the City of Long Beach in delivering an equitable quality of life for all community members.

Love Your Block

The City of Long Beach, in partnership with Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University, launched Love Your Block, a community-driven initiative that empowers residents to take action and enhance their neighborhoods. With this partnership, Long Beach joins a national network of cities committed to supporting resident-led efforts to create lasting, positive change.

Meet Our Grant Awardees:

Grants awarded to five resident-lead initiatives focusing on strengthening neighborhood connections and enhancing West Long Beach.

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 Vision

A world where the City and the public work in deep partnership to solve society’s most pressing challenges by rooting ourselves in trust, equity, and shared purpose. In this world, the City listens deeply, acts collaboratively, and delivers results that truly matter.

In Long Beach, this means building a more responsive, resilient, and equitable community where staff, leadership, and residents co-create solutions that improve quality of life and advance the promise of the City’s vision for everyone.

 Mission

The Office of Civic Innovation strengthens the City’s ability to deliver better results by serving as a problem-solving partner to departments, a strategic advisor to City leadership, and a bridge to the public, through the use of design, data, and service delivery practices to co-create solutions that help the City govern more effectively while bringing staff, leadership, and community closer to each other and to shared outcomes.

Goals

• Civic Innovation – Trust Building & Collective Impact

City staff are confident in their ability to achieve the organizations goals and objectives, while responding to the needs of customers because they have the knowledge, tools and support to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of City services.

• • Facilitate priority-setting and strategic initiative development
  • Problem-framing workshops, listening labs, and design sprints
  • Support resident-led community placemaking and co-creation efforts

• • Offer performance management and innovation support and training
  • Facilitate continuous improvement efforts across departments
  • Strengthen data management standards, governance, and collaboration

• Performance Management – Alignment & Results

• • Metric Selection + Data Inventory Sprints to establish outcome-based performance frameworks
  • Provide business planning and reporting to support the City’s strategic goals