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Date: Monday, August 26, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Goals and objectives of this workshop
This workshop introduces a variety of GIS maturity models in common use throughout the geospatial community. It will focus on the GIS Capability Maturity Model (GISCMM) as a tool for effective GIS management, operations, and tracking metrics. Through a hands-on exercise, workshop attendees will complete an initial assessment of their own GIS operation.
Enterprise GIS is expensive to develop, maintain, and operate. Even small-to-medium-sized cities, counties, and regional agencies have invested millions of dollars to develop their GIS capabilities, and they can have large annual operating budgets. Many recent third-party studies have proven that GIS delivers significant financial return on investment (ROI) to organizations that deploy it as an enterprise business-support tool. However, almost no GIS operation would be considered to be 100% implemented. In fact, most enterprise GIS operations lack important resources to meet all of their potential business needs, their sustainability is uncertain, and ROI varies depending on the maturity of their GIS management practices.
The GIS Capability Maturity Model will be described, along with its relationship to the USDOLETA Geospatial Management Competency Model.
Workshop attendees will receive a copy of a tool to enter assessment values against the GISCMM. An optional exercise will be conducted during the workshop, during which attendees will be asked to perform an initial assessment of their agency by applying the GISCMM. This workshop will be of value to those interested in the development, implementation, and use of GIS management professional standards and best practices.
Audience
IT directors/managers, GIS managers, decision makers, and operational personnel interested in understanding the overall state of their GIS operations.
Topics Covered
What is a capability maturity model?
A survey of GIS capability maturity models
Origins of the GIS Capability Maturity Model
The Geospatial Management Competency Model
Theory of GIS Management
Development of the revised, peer-reviewed GIS Capability Maturity Model
Exercise: The GIS Capability Maturity Model—Step by Step
Methods of displaying and comparing results
Exercise: Attendee discussion and feedback
Prerequisites and Recommendations
No prerequisite. Recommended for GIS managers, consultants, and academics interested in understanding GIS management.
What You Will Receive
2 hours of instruction from Greg Babinski, who is a subject-matter expert and workshop author.
A copy of the workshop presentation and exercises.
Upon completion, a signed completion certificate which will indicate the CEUs (0.2) and GISCI points (0.05) earned.
An invitation to periodic GIS management Q&A sessions with the instructor and other workshop attendees.
Advance registration is required.
For more information, contact Greg Babinski at greg@gismcs.com
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Presenter
Greg Babinski is a GIS management consultant and founder of GIS Management Consulting Services LLC, located in the greater Seattle area.
He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. Greg is a GISP – Certified GIS Professional.
Greg is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter. In 2019 Greg was awarded an Ethical GEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society. In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has spoken about GIS management across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Greg has taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor with the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration.
In his spare time Greg likes "...hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views".
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