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The End of the GIS Department? David Mockert CIO City of Indianapolis/Marion County

The End of the GIS Department? David Mockert CIO City of Indianapolis/Marion County. March 10, 2005. Introduction. Prophecy – The End is Near! Relax – GIS technology is solid Wait! Why do we have a GIS department anyway? GIS? What’s GIS?

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The End of the GIS Department? David Mockert CIO City of Indianapolis/Marion County

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  1. The End of the GIS Department?David MockertCIO City of Indianapolis/Marion County March 10, 2005

  2. Introduction • Prophecy – The End is Near! • Relax – GIS technology is solid • Wait! Why do we have a GIS department anyway? • GIS? What’s GIS? • That money we put into automating those GIS processes was the best money we ever spent

  3. Why the GIS Department has to Adapt?

  4. Hypothesis • The move to real-time and process-focused enterprises and other market trends will increasingly diminish the need for a stand-alone GIS department.

  5. Prediction • In ten years, 90% of employee-held GIS positions will either be replaced by automation, some will be outsourced, and others will simply no longer be relevant.

  6. What then? • The evolution of the GIS Department

  7. Beginning of GIS

  8. Centralized GIS

  9. Distributed GIS

  10. Automated GIS

  11. Future GIS Department

  12. Where did GIS go? • The most likely scenarios for the people and roles that once staffed the GIS Department: • Data Entry – Automated • Analysis – Fused with business function • Mapping – Included in business systems • Management – Irrelevant • Coordination – Implicit

  13. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol

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