Dangermond Provide’s This Year’s Insights on GIS Technology Growth #EsriUC

The gathering at the Esri Senior Executive Seminar is not about the "big ideas" but "big accomplishments." The individuals that are invited to attend this session are those that "do," the champions of GIS projects that have successfully implemented the "big ideas."

 

Welcoming the audience as he has done for several years was Dr. Roger Tomlinson who introduced Jack Dangermond (photo above). While Dangermond has routinely espoused the potential of geospatial technology his tact this year was more to recognize the already tremendous successes GIS technology has had on the environment, health, and economic development. "GIS is increasingly becoming societal infrastructure," said Dangermond. "GIS is evolving and enabled by many things including computing and networks and cloud and mobiles devices … software is becoming multidimensional."

Dangermond continued with an additional message: "Successful GIS implementation is not just technology; Management needs to be involved. They need to have a governance and a finance model; many organizations don't get this right; it has to be planned as to what you can get out of these systems," he said. This was more pointed than Dangermond has been in the past that organizations must have both an organizational plan and a budgetary plan, not just a grand vision. He emphasized that there must be a clear business value and systematic planning.

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