GIS Management Strategies and Issues

Common “success strategies” that are often cited include: • Establish executive level leadership. • Have a project champion.

. Establish an identity and visibility for the GIS project. • Form committees, workgroups or teams. • Formalize the budget for the whole GIS project. • Hire pre-trained staff. • Establish a GIS job class. • Conduct an initial GIS educational event. • Perform pilot projects. • Provide early deliverables. • Build your database on the highest accuracy data you can. • Bootstrap the GIS with inexpensive, low accuracy,high utility data. • Establish a GIS department. • Initiate GIS in a low-level work unit. • Use an enterprise GIS model. • Start small.