GIS

Maximizing your ROI in GIS

In today's competitive global economy, organizations must apply evermore diligence to their IT-related investments. GIS is no exception.

GIS advocates are finding themselves needing to compete more aggressively for limited IT funding. This requires them to:

• use more sophisticated means to prioritize & target investments in geospatial technology using ROI measures
• build robust strategies linked to corporate objectives
• build consensus across their organization in order to take an enterprise view of GIS, rather than the traditional silo'd view
• ensure they deliver on promised benefits cost-effectively.

PA Consulting Group is an independent management and technology consulting firm advising clients on enabling geospatial technology. We make a visible difference to our clients' GIS initiatives, no matter how unique the issues are, with proven competencies in IT-enabled business transformation.

Drawing on our deep expertise in mainstream IT technology, we have helped organizations with:

• Strategy and roadmap development – strategic planning based on business-led return on investment
• Sourcing – software product selection, off-shoring large-scale data conversions, outsourcing elements of GIS software support, negotiating service-level agreements and vendor support contracts
• Service management – ITIL implementation and training, transforming IT performance, and service management organizational design
• Knowledge management and business intelligence – unlocking geospatial data that can help organizations drive down costs, raise their revenues, improve customer service, and meet regulatory compliance.
• Enterprise architecture – service oriented architecture, designing large-scale platform.

Our insights

	Leading the way to best-in-class price and performance
	GIS solution identification – Identifying strategic value and how GIS solutions can help realize it
	Bringing GIS into an organization – Create an indisputable case for change
	Securing GIS program budget
	Applying a benefits driven approach to GIS implementation
	Creating an extensible GIS with web services
	Ensuring the success of a major geospatial infrastructure program
	Maximizing value through GIS service and delivery organizational design
	Balancing onshore and offshore for maximum value
	Enterprise GIS – Realizing the dream

Our case studies

	A gas and electric utility – Enterprise GIS needs assessment analysis
	A major US water utility – Infrastructure asset management: mains replacement and renewal
	ntl – Laying the foundations for migration to a single physical network inventory system
	Telecommunications – Improving physical network inventory management capability

Our workshops and presentations

	Ensuring the success of a major geospatial infrastructure program
	Applying a structured approach to benefits modeling
	Balancing Onshore and Offshore for Maximum Value
	Proving the business benefits of GeoWeb initiatives: an ROI-driven approach

We wrote the book on GIS ROI

 The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach

As a reflection of our competencies in this area, the leading GIS software vendor engaged PA to co-author a book on The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach. This comprehensive methodology is designed to help you to create a business case, budget, ROI model and roadmap for employing GIS technologies successfully.  Read the book

For more information, please contact: Rowena Figueroa PA Consulting Group 4601 N. Fairfax Drive Suite 600 Arlington, VA 22203 United States Telephone: +1 571 227 9137 Fax: +1 571 227 9001 E-mail: rowena.figueroa@paconsulting.com

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