Enterprise GIS presentation made to the Wisconsin GIS community in February.  How do organizations evolve from traditional GIS shops to enterprise focused organizations?

Passion is not enough.  GIS practitioners have an almost spiritual conviction in the power of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to improve analysis, decision making, and overall operations.  They are right – but the challenge is how to sell that message to enterprise executives.

It’s not easy to find products that fully support Project Management principles; it is even harder to find such support in the Software as a Service (SAAS) arena.  For a large enterprise willing to spend five or six figures on an enterprise project management solution, options abound. 

 

For the small team or independent project manager, the tradeoff is between collaboration features of an online service versus robust planning functionality available in desktop planning software.