If you want to become a transformational GIS Leader in your organization, this session is for you. Alot has changed during COVID and leadership is looking for better tools and analysis. This session is about the GIS departments role in transformation.
2023 Proceedings
Presentations
- The 30 Second Self Brief: Get Your Leaders the Info They Need in a Single Place
Leaders face the challenge of making decisions based on information from different expert system silos and analog briefings.From the front line dispatcher to our elected officials,our decision makers need the info to respond to problems in real time.In the past, obtaining the information for decisions can take hours of briefings or days to find and structure the data.Clayton Co.has created a tabbed Dashboard of Dashboards for our leadership to be able to do “the 30 sec self-brief” from their PC, or other devices to have the authoritative info at their fingertips to make decisions.
, Clayton County Board of Commissioners
- Opportunity to Re-Re-Brand GIS Leadership, after COVID
Geospatial technology brought local and state governments to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. This change has fostered organizational culture in government to become more data and technology-driven. That has provided opportunity for a different kind of guidance role, in the realm of data & spatial capabilities. The essential skills of being a GIS leader has changed since COVID with a true focus on the value of data & technology and not making maps (GASP!). There are new ways to become a GIS leader and for those already in management you can establish more support.
, Cobb County - GIS