In 2001, the author was hired as the GIS Coordinator for Fort Bend County. At the time, the Fort Bend GIS was capable of handling only minimal requests from both Engineering departmental staff, policy makers who needed paper maps, a few internal county departments and the general public. The author discovered that the GIS was experiencing multiple problems which, if not addressed soon, would cripple both the GIS’s ability to serve its present and future internal and external clientele; consequently inhibiting the future growth, development and distribution of the GIS throughout the County. Over the past 5 years, the GIS Coordinator has used specific futures studies and strategic planning tools such as Environmental Scanning, SWOT Analysis, GAP Analysis, Contingency Planning, along with Brainstorming which have generated new products and systems creating positive change within the County’s GIS.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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