1. Ordnance survey
Welcome
Measuring Geospatial Maturity A first step towards sustainable and resilient investment

2. The Information Age
Greater understanding, better policy and decision making
Improved economies and societal benefits
Information and knowledge allow us to create;
effective policies and strategies
roadmaps to deliver change
effective and sustainable operational systems
The Information Age is resulting in greater understanding, better policy and decision making, improved economies and societal benefits.  Paradoxically it also brings knowledge of disparity, be it between wealth and poverty or global opportunities and threats. 
Knowledge provides the basis of our understanding of the world as it is currently constituted. Information allows us to predict the world as it will, or could, be. Information is created by investigating, researching, collecting, combining and recombining data from multiple sources and applying it to our existing knowledge.  Information combined with knowledge allows us to create and monitor policies and strategies, create plans for change, design roadmaps to deliver change and to create operational systems which are effective and sustainable.  

3. Where does geospatial fit?
Feeds the information age and smart technologies
Trusted source of data
Digital infrastructure which can positively effect;
government, transparency and policy development
citizen-centric service design and delivery
resilience, resource/asset and environmental management
new business opportunities and innovation
economic growth
Mapping is a key component of the data that feeds this information age and its associated technological revolution.  Many nations and cities maintain large scale, attributed and accurate data from addressing to topography, imagery to networks. In contrast some nations use analogue mapping from the last century, perhaps 1:50,000 scale at best, but neither maintained nor digital.  Geospatial data is not the sole prerogative of national mapping agencies, but there will be many use-cases, from land administration to security where trusted data from governments is preferred over other sources.
In delivering the Sustainable Development Goals, good geospatial information is far more than a tool for measurement.  It is fundamental to understanding the present, development planning, making sustainable decisions and the implementation of projects.  It is part of a nation’s digital infrastructure. In this sense, many nations are coming to view geospatial data as ‘infrastructure for infrastructure’.  Improved availability of this fundamental geospatial data leads to opportunities for better government, greater transparency, more effective policy development and monitoring, citizen-centric service design and delivery, improved resilience, increased resource/asset and environmental management; and not least, new business opportunities. 
Today, many governments are following this agenda: Targeting investment in geospatial data and land administration, not simply as a means to develop supporting infrastructure and services, but as a direct driver of economic growth. Growing the economy, facilitating innovation and creating new trade and business opportunities is not simply a matter of macroeconomics. Innovation, change, improvement and increased tax-take provide the means by which government can directly reduce poverty.

4. More people using greater volumes of trusted, accurate, fundamental geospatial data
The need to answer specific questions and challenges is generating an appetite for greater and richer volumes of trusted, accurate and current fundamental geospatial data, as well as new collection and management technologies.  It is driving both the public and private sector, including development banks and international aid funded projects, to create data for specific use-cases.
Unfortunately, the absence of overarching polices or control mechanisms at national level very often results in a ‘create once, use once’ approach to data.  This ‘distributed focus’ on geospatial data misses the opportunity to leverage the full investment benefits. ‘Create once use once’ loses the efficiency and effectiveness of a national source of trusted and maintained data designed to underpin all use-cases. A much better approach is to ‘create once, use many’. In order to be able to achieve this,  nations need to formulate and deploy a national geospatial strategy.
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5. National Spatial Data Infrastructures
•             Governance, organisation, policy and strategy
•             Services, technology, infrastructure, GIS
•             Content (data), both fundamental geospatial data and wider location data
•             Internationally adopted standards
•             People, innovation and Education
Where should governments and organisations invest and how can geospatial data benefit them?
National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) comprise a number of tenets. 
[Refer to slide] These can be classified into five particular groups:
The benefits of geospatial data can be partially realisable without creating a full-blown NSDI.  The basics principles to enable a nation to benefit from its data are often simple:  Suitable policy based upon the concepts of a ‘data commonwealth’ - where data collected by one public entity is made available to others as a matter of course (unless there are specified reasons not to e.g. national security); current, authoritative and sustainable content and trained people. The other elements of a NSDI are superfluous without these.
There is therefore a conundrum faced by Governments that recognise the importance of geospatial data; specifically, where and how to invest, and for what benefit? 
Is the immediate design and commissioning of a full blown NSDI the answer, or should that be considered a longer term goal? 
The United Nations Statistics Division and World Bank have signed an MOU to help governments answer that question, including building an internationally recognised and endorsed framework.  This framework and subsequent national action plans will include elements such as the economic impact and value of geospatial information systems, investment needs and associated tools, guides, and good practices. 
This will enable individual governments to create actions plans against a recognised framework and commit funds to implement national systems tailored to their own situations.  Creating functioning fundamental geospatial data hubs, or agencies, will be a leading component in any action plan.
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6. Investments based on knowledge & information
Understand current state of maturity
Explore what a future state could look like
Targeting and prioritising
Consideration for both geospatial and operational aspects
Review technological platforms, architecture and data produced
A national mapping/geospatial/cadastre agency that makes its existing data accessible is taking a first step.  Creating new data, or maintaining data sustainably, is the next big step.  Leveraging partners, including the ‘open’ community, requires a level of maturity of thought and action.  But to take steps forward it is important to understand the present and what a sustainable future state would look like.  Simply put, to invest wisely a Government needs to know the current and the target geospatial maturity for its geospatial data agency(ies), their technology platforms and architecture, and, not least, the data that they produce.
With increasing geospatial maturity comes the ability to make wise investments.  However, targeting and prioritising investment is only the first stage in the process. To be sustainable, an organisation’s maturity should be considered across both geospatial and operational aspects of an organisation.
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7. Crossing both geospatial and operational maturity… Opportunities to innovate, improve and create new economic and business opportunities  
Developing maturity based upon how to design and apply geospatial solutions and how to operate collection, management, product and service delivery systems, increases understanding of the whole ‘ecosystem’.
When we understand how a system operates, both in detail and in the wider context; for example how we interact with customers and other stakeholders, and how exactly we add value to their business, we can not only target improvements in both the effectiveness and efficiency of what we currently do, we can also begin to identify new ways to add value to the professional community.
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8. No ‘ultimate maturity’
Maturity is not a fixed concept
Emerging technologies, applications, global trends, local and regional priorities, natural and man-made change all drive the need for continuous technical and methodological evolution
No ‘one-size-fits-all’ - key stakeholders, customers and the ‘environment’ in which the organisation operates will always be different
Knowledge and information allows you to evaluate current and future capabilities and investment opportunities
The GMA provides an ‘as is’, or current state view of geospatial maturity.  But looking to the ‘to be’, or future state, necessary to build a roadmap and guide subsequent investment decisions, an important choice has to be made – what should the future state be based upon, should it be global best practice? And, are we trying to build a world class or the best-of-the-best solution, simply because that is the ultimate?
Our GMA argues not. Fundamentally, by definition, maturity is not a fixed concept. The idea of ‘ultimate maturity’ exists only in theory. What represents ultimate levels of maturity today, will not be true for tomorrow, as the world moves on. Similarly, emerging technologies, applications, global trends, local and regional priorities, natural and man-made change all drive the need for continuous technical and methodological evolution. But, simply being at the current zenith of technical evolution is not necessarily the same thing as possessing a relatively high level of maturity.
It is however, having the quality of maturity, based upon knowledge and information, good governance and sustainable policies that allows organisations, and indeed nations, to evaluate their current and future capabilities and to make an informed choice as to where on the evolutionary spectrum they need to be.    Maturity is essentially having the capability to evaluate options fully and to make the right decision for the true interests of the organisation.
Maturity should be measured against the needs of the key national stakeholders, customers and the ‘environment’ in which the organisation operates.  It can be cognisant of, but not compared with, good practice.  This enables a ‘fit for national purpose’ approach to creating, maintaining and supplying geospatial data, not ‘one-size fits all’.
A nation thence knows the current and desired maturity of its national geospatial organisation(s), across the many different components of geospatial and operational maturity (Ordnance Survey lists 16 of them in total). Some components will need significant investment to reach desired maturity, but others will not require investment.  Some will be achievable through policy change, others through investment in technology or managed service and training.  Critically a nation is in a position to have confidence in the derived investment roadmap.
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9. Geospatial and operational maturity
data capture and maintenance process
data management approach to data sharing
use of geospatial technology and use of standards. 
product and services portfolio, licensing, product and service creation and Quality Management. 
Operational
resilience and sustainability of an organisation
corporate governance, corporate strategy
approach to investment portfolio management
stakeholder engagement. 
Geospatial maturity considers the familiar functions of data capture and maintenance processes, data management, approach to data sharing, use of geospatial technology and the application of standards.  But to be sustainable it will also consider the approach to building its product and services portfolio, licensing, product and service creation and, importantly, Quality Management. 
Operational maturity looks at the constitution, strength and ultimately, the resilience of an organisation. Sustainability is dependent upon these factors. Maturity needs to be considered across corporate governance, corporate strategy, approach to investment portfolio management as well as the approach to stakeholder engagement.  A resilient organisation will be able to have the financial and human resources to deliver its strategy, and it will configure and manage its operations and supply chain effectively.  Crossing both geospatial and operational maturity is the need to consider the value generated for the nation, including those all-important opportunities to innovate, improve and create new economic and business opportunities.
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10. Assessment options Strategic, Practical, Customised.01 02 3
Three stage – stand alone or integrated
Geospatial Maturity Online Assessment
Online assessment
Instant snapshot of your maturity level
Geospatial Maturity Review
Operational and geospatial capabilities
Structured interviews
Geospatial maturity results and benchmark
Geospatial Maturity Roadmap
+ Stakeholder analysis, environmental and customer research
Detailed investment roadmap
Outline business case

11. Run through potential results format - speaking to the slide.
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12. Assessment options Strategic, Practical, Customised
Free Option 1 assessment online at
os.uk/gma
Try it out for free.
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13. Conclusions Strategic Operational
Geospatial data is critical to the information age
Contributes to greater understanding, better decision making, effective delivery and more assured monitoring
No longer the sole preserve of NMAs
Data Commonwealth Paradigm
Collect Once use many
Operational
Global Geospatial Maturity Assessment provides a tool to assess as-is, determine to-be and determine an investment plan and roadmap
Based on our global expertise and experience and is delivered by current practitioners
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