Our GIS Strategic Planning Methodology
Our unique insight and twenty-five years of local government GIS strategic implementation planning allow our team to offer the most innovative and far-reaching solutions.
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Our team offers strong ideas and bold new solutions. We are the people that plan the right strategies, develop actionable insights from stakeholder feedback, and deploy smart and innovative tools and applications.
We empower government organizations, providing exceptional products and services
Geographic Technologies Group is famous for many strategic approaches …
- Striving for the Absolute Best
- Pushing the Envelope
- Innovation
- Better Predictions
- Encouraging Healthier Lives
- Strengthening Cultures
- Developing Bold New Solutions
- Shared Intelligence
- Creating Geo-powered Organizations
- Smart Communities
- High Performance
- Enthusiastic Staff
- Fueling Creativity
- Sustainability
- Resilience
- Science of Creativity
- Creativity in Action
- Every Realm of Experience
- Sparking Brilliant Solutions
- Setting up for Success
- Harnessing the Science of Data
- Imagining the Possibilities
- Inspiration
- Creative Minds
- Strong Ideas
- Thinking Visually
- Productive People
- Shape Good Habits
- Business Realization
We Plan Strategic, Enterprise, Sustainable, Scalable and Enduring Government GIS Solutions
STRATEGIC
Our strategic GIS planning philosophy includes a methodology that is deliberate, considered, intentional, and tactical, supported by well-calculated planning and decision-making. Strategy means examining the big picture—keeping long-term goals and objectives in mind while carefully analyzing the actions and initiatives required to reach those goals. It can include a vision, goals, and objectives supported by Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and GIS Outcomes.
ENTERPRISE
Our team plans, designs, and implements GIS solutions throughout entire organizations. We pride ourselves in our innovative, creative, and original uses of GIS across all departments. A true enterprise GIS encompasses the willingness to undertake a significant project or task especially if it is complicated, difficult, or risky. It requires initiative and deliberate effort to reach an intended goal. Enterprise is associated with boldness, resourcefulness, and energy.
SUSTAINABLE
Our team understands GIS sustainability as a solution that supports the weight of something, providing for its needs, and maintaining and prolonging it—to keep something viable. It means to progress or continue something: to nourish it into long-term fruition. Sustainability requires intentionality, support, and maintenance. Our team develops GIS plans and implements enterprise solutions that are sustainable.
SCALABLE
A scalable GIS means being flexible: to be able to be used in many different ways, including intranet, internet, desktop, and mobile GIS. Scalability also involves customization—to be able to be upgraded, expounded, or simplified to fulfill a task. Scalability revolves around accommodation and cooperation to reach a goal. Our enterprise-wide, sustainable solutions are scalable to all needs of government.
ENDURING
An enduring GIS solution is long-lasting, permanent, and withstanding. To endure involves working at something diligently, sustainably, and meticulously to produce lasting outcomes that remain constant and stable for a long period of time. Our strategic plans embrace every aspect of GIS management and technology – making our roadmaps enduring, stable, and lasting. Enduring GIS solutions focus on tried and tested long-term resilient strategies for GIS implementation, governance, data and databases, and procedures.
Our GIS Strategic Planning: Three Phases and Seven Steps
Phase I: Conducting a GIS Needs Assessment
What Are Your Organizational Needs?
Questions
- How do I conduct a GIS Needs Assessment?
- How do I identify the specific GIS needs of my organization?
- How should we use education and training workshops?
- How can I encourage participation?
- How do I build consensus?
- How should I conduct Blue Sky Session?
- How do I get buy-in from my decision makers and elected officials?
- Who are my GIS Stakeholders?
- How do I engage the public and cultivate citizen engagement?
- How do I educate my decision makers and elected officials?
- How does benchmarking our organization help us grow?
- How can I identify Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that track my success?
- How do I align our GIS with the vision of the Organization?
- How do I align our GIS with the vision of the Organization?
Solutions
- On-line GIS Questionnaires
- GIS Training, Education and Knowledge Transfer Workshops
- Blue Sky Sessions
- Departmental Interviews
- Consensus Building
- Stakeholders Buy-In
- Citizen Engagement
- GIS Benchmarking
- Developing KPI’s
Phase II: GIS: Developing System Design Alternatives
What Are Your GIS Design Alternatives?
Questions
- What alternatives do I have to grow our enterprise GIS?
- What should our Optimum GIS Governance and staffing model look like?
- How can we evaluate and improve the accuracy and reliability of our digital data and databases?
- How do we diagrammatically illustrate workflows and how will that help our organization?
- What are the benefits of GIS Policy, Data Standards, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)?
- How important is enterprise-wide GIS integration throughout my organization?
- What does a true training, education, and knowledge transfer program look like?
- How do we deploy scalable GIS software throughout our organization?
- What GIS software should we be using?
- How important is an Architectural and Infrastructure Assessment?
- How can we use Best Business Practices (BBP) to help our organization?
Solutions
- Develop Alternative GIS Solutions
- Develop an Enterprise Governance Model
- Evaluate and Improve Data and Databases
- Create Workflows Procedures
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Design Interoperable and Integrated Solutions
- Develop Training, Education And Knowledge Transfer Program
- Use Best Business Practices for the Optimum use of GIS Software, Hardware and IT Architecture
Phase III: Creating Your GIS Strategic Implementation Plan
What Should A Phased GIS Strategic Implementation Plan Do For Your Organization?
Questions
- What does a true GIS Strategic Plan look like, and how will it help our organization?
- How do we best use a Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis, Cost-Benefits Analysis, or Value Proposition?
- What is the benefit of a multi-year GIS strategic roadmap?
- What is GIS Benchmarking?
- How do we create Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s) and measure GIS outcomes and actionable items?
- What are our priorities as an organization?
- How do we measure success? The most important and critical metrics?
- How should we align GIS with our organization’s vision, mission and goals, and objectives?
- How do we introduce meaningful productive change?
- How do we initiative a smooth acquisition of skills throughout the organization?
- How sustainable will this GIS initiative be?
Solutions
- Develop a GIS Strategic Implementation Plan
- Conduct an ROI Analysis
- Conduct a Benchmarking Analysis – Compare yourself to 10 other Organizations
- Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Develop Actionable Items
- Set GIS Priorities
- Measure Success
- Alignment with your Organizations Vision
- Cause Meaningful Productive Change
- Develop tools to help with the Smooth Acquisition Of geospatial Skills
- Make your GIS Sustainable
INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR GIS STRATEGIC PLANNING
SIX PILLARS OF SUSTAINABILITY
7 KEYS TO SUCCESS
TRAINING, EDUCATION, AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE
GIS TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR
DEPARTMENTAL INTERVIEWS
GIS BENCHMARKING
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
OPTIMUM GOVERNANCE MODELS
RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) ANALYSIS
VISION, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES
BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES
CONSENSUS BUILDING
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
GIS OUTCOMES
Rapid Deployment of ArcGIS HUB Solutions Empowers Local Government
Our team is working with local government organizations to implement ArcGIS Hub Solutions that support towns, cities, and counties well into the future. Esri’s ArcGIS Hub provides an unparalleled community engagement platform and common operating picture for GIS operations, both internally and externally.
As a scalable and sustainable solution, ArcGIS Hub deployments can be configured for any level of GIS maturity and positioned to grow organically, aligning with organizational goals and initiatives. Let us help you maximize engagement, communication, collaboration, and data sharing through Esri’s ArcGIS Hub.