GIS Governance Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers and Operations

GIS Governance Best Practices for Successful GIS Managers and Operations

Goals and objectives of this workshop

An effective governance structure is a key success factor for a GIS organization and for the GIS manager who leads it. But often a GIS operation will take a ‘heads-down and hope nobody bothers us’ attitude and just focus on developing and maintaining data, developing a small set of apps, and responding to the occasional request for some analysis or a set of maps. Just as often the GIS shop will be overwhelmed by requests for new data, apps, and projects. Is this you?

A GIS manager with leadership and vision will likely hope to accomplish more than what available resources allow. An effective GIS governance structure with meaningful and supportive participation is an invaluable tool for a GIS manager.

This two-hour online GIS Academy™ workshop provides a clear understanding of what GIS governance is intended for, how to structure GIS governance, and how it can become a highly effective tool for successful GIS managers.

Audience

Current GIS managers, supervisors, and coordinators, and those who aspire to a successful career in GIS management.

Topics Covered

• Introduction
• Background to the topic
• Mandates for GIS
• Essential GIS Governance Elements
• GIS Governance Structure Options
• GIS Governance Membership and Motivation
• GIS Governance Responsibilities & Key Functions
• GIS Governance Troubleshooting
• Sponsorship
• Meaningful participation by the right people
• Governance and your vendors (you know who I mean)
• Case Studies
• Open Discussion

Prerequisites and Recommendations

No prerequisites. Recommended for GIS managers and leadership teams interested in developing effecitive governance structures to support the enetrprise GIS for your organization.

What You Will Receive

Two hours of instruction from Greg Babinski, who is a subject-matter expert and workshop author.

A copy of the workshop presentation

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.

Instructor

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. In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has been invited to speak about GIS management across North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Between 1998 and the end of 2021 he served as GIS Manager, GIS Finance Manager and GIS Marketing & Business Development Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle. Before that he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland. Greg also taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor at the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration.

Greg Babinski is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. Under Greg’s leadership the GIS Management Institute helped develop the GIS Capability Maturity Model, Geospatial Management Competency Model, and the GIS Performance Metrics Model. Greg also helped pioneer an objective GIS ROI methodology.

In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter. He has published articles in the Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, as well as chapters in books about GIS ROI and GIS for counties best practices. In 2019 Greg was awarded an EthicalGEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society.

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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