Getting Started on YOUR Geospatial Strategy · Summary –Getting you started •The definition and...
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Jim VanOstenbridge – Solution Architect
Sean McGinnis – Solution Architect
Getting Started on YOUR Geospatial Strategy
We are here to empower you to…
• Understand what a geospatial strategy is
- It’s purpose
-Essential people and perspectives
-What you need to build yours
• Increase the business impact of your efforts
A Geospatial Strategy is a business-oriented
plan that defines how an organization will use
GIS to achieve its goals and desired outcomes.
The plan includes considerations of people, process, and
technology needed to meet priority goals and overcome
challenges.
Strategy’s Purpose:
To change the function and behavior of
an organization to deliver new value
Geospatial Strategy’s Purpose
Leveraging Geography & Location to
change the function and behavior of
an organization to deliver new value
Strategic Outcomes
•Coordinated Execution
• Improved Performance
•Common Results: Measurable Improvements in...-Productivity
-Profitability
-Efficiency
-Effectiveness
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• Data Administration
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Transforming the Geospatial Capabilities of an Enterprise
Transforming the Geospatial Capabilities of an Enterprise
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Geospatial Strategy’s Purpose
Leveraging Geography & Location to
change the function and behavior of
an organization to deliver new value
A Strategy is Built by and for People
• Goals of leaders
• Enabling people to work together better and differently
• Achieving outcomes, not just outputs
…Maximize Impact
Developing & Executing a Geospatial Strategy
ActUnderstand Plan
Revisit
What can you do?
Understand
• Assemble your team
• Engage across your organization
• Articulate your organizations’ goals and challenges
Plan
• Identify ways GIS can bring business value
• Create a plan that takes into account people, process, and technology
• Prioritize and sequence your work
Act
• Bring your solutions to life: prepare, implement, operate, and review each one
• Share your strategy and successes
• Revisit your strategy
Assemble Your Team
Executive SponsorChampion Technical
Leadership
Understand the
Business
Value Proposition
Justification for
Resources
What is the business impact of your GIS?
… and what does it need to be?
Individual
Team or
Department
Organization
Scoping Solutions
Processes, Workflows
Data,Apps & Technology
Skills• Dev, Ops,
Workforce
• Staffing
(in/out-
source)
InitialSolutionScope
High-levelCapabilities
Security, Service – Level
Requirements
ExecutiveSponsorEngagement
Challenges
Mandate forChange
Clarify key business units
Goals & KPIs
Coordination with IT Leadership and practices
How much clarity do you need to chart the path forward?
Building a shared understanding for all involved
Common Patterns of Use Categorize Capabilities
Mapping & Visualization
Understand locations and relationships with maps
and visual representations
DataManagement
Collect, organize, and maintain accurate
locations and details about assets and
resources
Field Mobility
Manage and enable a mobile workforce to collect and access
information in the field
Monitoring
Track, manage, and monitor assets and
resources in real-time
Analytics
Discover, quantify, and predict trends and patterns to improve
outcomes
Design & Planning
Evaluate alternative solutions and create
optimal designs
DecisionSupport
Gain situational awareness, and enable
information-driven decision making
ConstituentEngagement
Communicate and collaborate with citizens
and external communities of interest
Sharing & Collaboration
Empower everyone to easily discover, use,
make, and share geographic information
Capabilities → Applications → User Participation
Analysis
Data Science
Operational
AwarenessGIS Projects
Mapping
Field OperationsData Visualization
Imagery
Lidar
3DVector
Tabular
Real-Time
(IoT)
Big DataUnstructured
CAD / BIM
Drill down from capabilities into content
Data represents the work of
people and systems.
Determine sustainable and
scalable processes for content
categories…
• Foundational• Analytical
• Unstructured
• Collaborative
Everything to this point guides the technology design
Distributed Deployment
ArcGIS
Online
ArcGIS
Enterprise
What is the simplest technical
landscape that enables people to
work together?
Design for categorical functionality first.
Ensure non-functional, policy and
service-level requirements are met.
• Availability
• Responsiveness
• Scalability
• Disaster Recovery
• Security• …
Environment isolation
• Production
• Staging
• Development
Replicate
Portal
Solution implications for skills
• The scope of each solution indicates the skills people must possess for…
- Solution development
- Fundamental development/innovation skills
- Development, testing, and deployment practices must be aligned with IT
- Anticipate governance of the solution portfolio
- IT Operations
- Deployment includes transition of practices to IT operations staff
- Workforce implementation and adoption
- Do not underestimate the effort required to achieve sustainable adoption
Prioritizing and Sequencing Solutions
• Which solutions will introduce essential
changes to achieve business goals?
- Might be out of sequence from expressed interests
- Balance small and large projects
- Set a visible cadence of delivering value
- Attend to implementation, support, and
maintenance for a growing portfolio
- Sustain justification of solution development
resources
Calls to action for your Geospatial Strategy…
• Engage and understand the leaders and business units you serve, align with IT.
• Take a business first approach to guide people, processes, and technology design
choices.
• Consider the needs of solution development, operations, and your workforce.
• Document what you reveal, build shared understanding, guide investment.
• Plan for continuous value delivery.
• Establish effective governance: balancing control with empowerment.
Your Questions…
What we learned from you…
Summary – Getting you started
• The definition and purpose of a geospatial strategy
• Engaging with the right people and taking a business-first approach
• Business impact and solution details
• Solution prioritization and sequencing
• Increase the value of your work
So, do you think you can do this?
“Whether you think you can
or you think you can’t,
you’re right.”
Henry Ford
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Getting Started on YOUR Geospatial Strategy
Jim VanOstenbridge – Solution Architect
Sean McGinnis – Solution Architect
Getting Started on YOUR Geospatial Strategy