Richmond Hill - GIS Strategy
How we helped Richmond Hill develop a new GIS delivery model and a GIS Strategy.
PROJECT: GIS STRATEGY
DESCRIPTION
Having worked with the Town previously on a corporate IT Strategy, we were asked to help with a GIS Review and Strategy. Like many organizations, GIS units had grown in Engineering, Planning and in IT, with other GIS staff sprinkled throughout the organization.
GIS was being integrated into the Town's core systems - Work Management, CRM, Permitting, Licensing and Land and the Town's dependence on GIS systems and GIS data was ever-growing.
Work practices and coordination had not kept up, and this was hindering
OUTCOME
Through an extremely collaborative process, involving all players in the GIS we developed a strategy that recommended a series of changes.
This included the creation of a centralized GIS unit, the establishment of a GIS leadership position, a redefinition of all GIS roles and responsibilities with new job descriptions, a new governance model to ensure expected service levels to all areas of the business could continue to be met and a series of projects to standardize and improve datasets of high importance to the organization.
PROJECT DATA
Budget: 75k
Timeline: 6 months
Participants in Strategy Development: 30+
Grey County: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan
How we helped Grey County define its Business Continuity requirements and an accompanying IT Disaster Recovery Plan.
DESCRIPTION
Grey County engaged Perry Group to develop an organization-wide business risk assessment and impact assessment to guide recommendations for a disaster recovery plan. A precise evaluation of the services each department delivers with a qualitative and a quantitative assessment of the potential impact of losing those services is unlike many other disaster recovery assessments that focus on technology.