Define how your organization will support its mission with a geospatial strategy
GIS is a powerful tool that can enhance and streamline processes, improve decision-making, and ultimately drive the success of your business. A successful GIS program places priority and focus on the business and its mission.
Geospatial excellence can be achieved through two key factors: having a geospatial strategy to guide efforts and gaining buy-in from leadership to ensure its implementation.
Align geospatial resources with your organization's mission, goals, and priorities. Match geospatial capabilities to workflows, brainstorm on solutions to challenges, and communicate the vision.
Ensure investment in GIS initiatives by considering corporate oversight and metrics, communicating value to drive funding and prioritization of resources and initiatives, measuring outcomes, and communicating results.
Design and develop a comprehensive set of solutions that not only meets current requirements and workflows, but also enables the development of innovative solutions moving forward.
Define desired future outcomes that are actionable and achievable on a short to long term horizon. Identify, collect, and analyze relevant data to support outcomes. Establish KPIs to monitor outcomes, evaluate effectiveness, and adjust as required.
Start by building a team that includes a GIS champion who evangelizes GIS, an executive sponsor with the authority to make it happen, and technical leaders to support future-state capabilities. Then define and enact your geospatial strategy through four phases of development.
Define a shared understanding of your organization’s goals, success criteria, and current challenges. This allows you to justify and develop a plan to overcome these challenges.
Create a road map that clearly defines short-term and long-term goals with specific and measurable objectives aligned with the organizational mission.
Launch a series of implementation cycles based on your road map. This involves actively engaging with stakeholders and conducting research and analysis, and allows for flexibility and adaptability.
Review and update your strategy, if necessary, to account for changes in leadership priorities, business goals, and technology.