URBAN/DIGITAL
Senior-led advisory · Middle East

Strategy for better-performing places and businesses.

Urban Digital advises governments, real-estate leaders and technology businesses on smart cities, smart real estate and digital transformation.

Based in Jordan. Working across the Middle East.
Clarity for complex transformation.

We help leaders decide what to change, design the services and capabilities required, and build a realistic path from strategic intent to implementation.

Capabilities

Focused expertise.
Connected perspectives.

Urban Digital works across the decisions that shape cities, real estate and digital businesses. Each engagement is tailored to the client’s objectives and operating context.

01   CITIES & DISTRICTS

Smart Cities & Districts

Translate urban priorities into coordinated strategies, services, governance and delivery roadmaps.

  • City and district strategy
  • Digital public services
  • Governance and operating models
  • Investment and delivery roadmaps
02   REAL ESTATE & PLACES

Smart Real Estate

Connect development and asset objectives with digital infrastructure, user services and day-to-day operations.

  • Real-estate technology strategy
  • Smart campus and district planning
  • Asset data and digital twins
  • Partner and implementation planning
03   ORGANIZATIONS & PRODUCTS

Digital Transformation

Shape transformation around business outcomes, user needs and the capabilities required to deliver them.

  • Transformation strategy and roadmaps
  • User journeys and service design
  • Digital product development
  • Commercial and operating models
Service & product development

Design the journey and the business around it.

User experience, digital products and operating models are connected design questions. Urban Digital brings them together early, so the proposed service can work for its users and the organization responsible for it.

01

Understand the need

Clarify the objective, stakeholder needs, user journeys, current services and constraints.

02

Define the service or product

Set the value proposition, experience, priority use cases and intended outcomes.

03

Design how it will operate

Connect responsibilities, business model, technology requirements, data and partners.

04

Prepare for launch and adoption

Set a delivery roadmap, adoption measures and the capabilities needed to improve over time.

The work can start with a transformation agenda, a specific user journey or a product opportunity—and bring the missing decisions into focus.
Selected experience

Regional work across strategy, places and technology.

Experience includes partner-level leadership, business and product development, and advisory work across public-sector, real-estate and technology environments.

Current advisory work · Jordan

Supporting public-sector partnership development and smart-campus planning. Client and project details are withheld; scope and references can be discussed where disclosure is authorized.

City digital strategy · GCC

A capital of innovation

Translated a city’s strategic development priorities into a digital strategy, defining how technology could support its wider ambitions.

Partner-in-charge · Executive-level strategy and roadmap
Smart-city masterplan · GCC

Planning transformation at city scale

Led a major smart-city masterplan, linking city priorities with service opportunities, governance, enabling capabilities and phased implementation planning.

Partner-in-charge · Strategy and masterplanning
Digital products · Middle East

Moving a technology portfolio into the market

Led development and launch of three digital products addressing healthcare monitoring, video analytics and logistics tracking.

Product strategy · Portfolio development · Launch
Smart real estate · Middle East

Connecting property strategy with technology

Advised across developments, portfolios and campus environments on technology adoption, digital services and operating needs.

Real-estate strategy · Smart campus · Digital services
Technology business · Regional

Building a digital advisory and product practice

Co-founded a regional advisory firm, developed its intellectual property and helped build the capabilities that supported its growth and acquisition.

Founding partner · Practice and IP development
Transformation & growth · Middle East

Developing markets, services and organizations

Led strategy and business-development work across telecom, public-sector and enterprise settings, including a Jordanian education-technology strategy.

Market strategy · Digital transformation · Business development

Reference descriptions are intentionally anonymized. Further detail can be discussed where disclosure is authorized.

How we work

Senior judgement, applied to delivery.

Engagements are led directly by experienced practitioners. Specialist delivery partners are brought in when the work requires capabilities beyond the core advisory team.

01

Frame the challenge

Align on the ambition, constraints, stakeholders and decisions that matter.

02

Set the direction

Define intended outcomes, strategic choices and a focused set of priorities.

03

Design for operation

Connect services, experience, governance, technology and commercial logic.

04

Support the next move

Help the client and delivery ecosystem turn the roadmap into coordinated action.

Portrait of Amer Mdanat
Founder

Amer Mdanat

Founder & Managing Director, Urban Digital

Amer’s career began in 1999 in Jordan’s telecommunications sector. Since then, he has held senior commercial, technology and advisory roles across the Middle East, working with global technology companies including Cisco Systems, Intel Security/McAfee, Huawei and ZainTech.

He co-founded NexGen Advisory Group, later NXN, where he led consulting practice and intellectual-property development. The business was acquired by Zain Group and became ZainTech. He later served as a Senior Executive Advisor with PwC’s Government & Public Sector team, supporting development of its Smart Cities business.

His work spans city and digital strategies, smart-city masterplanning, real-estate technology, digital transformation and launched digital products. At Urban Digital, he brings this experience directly to each engagement, drawing on specialist partners where needed.

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Since 1999Professional career in technology and transformation
Global & regionalTechnology companies, ventures and advisory practices
Founder-ledDirect senior involvement in client work
URBAN/DIGITAL  ×  PICACITY.AI

Specialist digital-twin capability, grounded in the client’s context.

For selected opportunities in Jordan, Urban Digital works with Picacity.ai to connect platform capability with client priorities, service design and local operating needs.

Scope, responsibilities and commercial arrangements are defined for each engagement.
Perspectives

Decisions that shape successful transformation.

Our work is guided by a few practical principles for leaders making long-term choices about cities, assets and digital services.

Cities & districts

Start with the services and outcomes, then determine what technology enables them.

This keeps strategy connected to public value, accountable ownership and the realities of delivery.

Real estate

Plan digital capability alongside the asset and its operating model.

Early alignment can reduce fragmented systems and improve the experience of people who use and manage a place.

Digital products

Design the user journey, operating model and commercial proposition together.

Adoption depends on a service people can use and an organization that can sustain it.

Start a conversation

What are you working to change?

Share the city, asset or business challenge in front of you. Urban Digital can help clarify the opportunity and the decisions required to move it forward.

Contact Urban Digital  ↗
Amman  +962 7 9999 2992
UAE  +971 55 955 9387