1. The End of the GIS Department? David Mockert CIO City of Indianapolis/Marion County March 10, 2005

2. Introduction  Prophecy – The End is Near!  Relax – GIS technology is solid  Wait! Why do we have a GIS department anyway?  GIS? What’s GIS?  That money we put into automating those GIS processes was the best money we ever spent

3. Why the GIS Department has to Adapt?

4. Hypothesis  The move to real-time and process- focused enterprises and other market trends will increasingly diminish the need for a stand-alone GIS department.

5. Prediction  In ten years, 90% of employee-held GIS positions will either be replaced by automation, some will be outsourced, and others will simply no longer be relevant.

6. What then?  The evolution of the GIS Department

7. Beginning of GIS

8. Centralized GIS

9. Distributed GIS

10. Automated GIS

11. Future GIS Department

12. Where did GIS go?  The most likely scenarios for the people and roles that once staffed the GIS Department:  Data Entry – Automated  Analysis – Fused with business function  Mapping – Included in business systems  Management – Irrelevant  Coordination – Implicit

13. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol