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• Queensland Rail
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Queensland Rail
  Project:	Spatial Roadmap and Operating Model
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Road / Rail
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2009
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected by Queensland Rail to develop a Spatial Roadmap and Operating Model for QR which could be used to transform its use of spatial information in order to focus upon a shared understanding, a common vision, an agreed strategy and a practical roadmap to support business specific spatial information management and use.  Corporate GIS Consultants completed the first phase Scoping Study which was accepted by the Steering Committee.  At this time the Queensland Premier announced that significant components of QR would be sold, an outcome of which was that all projects should cease until such time as the new owners took control.
  
  Spatial Roadmap and Operating Model
  
  
• Common Spatial Information Initiative (CS2i)
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Common Spatial Information Initiative (CS2i)
  Project:	NSW Addressing Strategy Facilitation
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2009
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned to establish a review process of current legislation, systems and status of legal addresses in NSW for the delivery of a range of emergency services, post and utilities.  The project involved undertaking a workshop with a range of key stakeholders, documenting outcomes including proposed governance arrangements and terms of reference for the proposed NSW Addressing Working Group.
  
  NSW Addressing Strategy Facilitation
  
  
• Australian Federal Police
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Australian Federal Police
  Project:	Development of Geospatial Governance Framework
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Federal Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2009
  Description:	Following the completion of previous Geospatial Strategy projects for AFP, Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to develop a Governance Framework for the use of geospatial information and services across AFP.
  
  Development of Geospatial Governance Framework
  
  
• Land and Property Information
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Land and Property Information
  Project:	Spatial Operations Review
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2008
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned to undertake a Review of the Spatial Operations of LPI in 2008.  This project was focused on gathering information about, and understanding of, the current business information environment within LPI, particularly with regard to workflows and workloads and the impact that the information environment has on these loads and flows including a review of strategies / initiatives such as Vision 2013, CS2i, etc.  This phase included extensive stakeholder discussion / workshops, review of existing systems, environments and documentation in order to provide the basis for the subsequent strategy development discussions and options analysis, including risk analysis.  The project also involved a Best Practice review of Spatial Information Operations nationally in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia as well as internationally in New Zealand and Canada with correlation against the outcomes from the business review conducted in the previous phase.  The outcome from this review was that LPI repositioned their Spatial Operations to focus on customer / stakeholder requirements utilising a number of output focused teams.
  
  Spatial Operations Review
  
  
• Marrickville Council
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Marrickville Council
  Project:	Scoping Study for the Development of a Corporate Spatial Information Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Local Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2008
  Description:	Marrickville Council have used spatial technology for a number of years and while good information management practice has been implemented, the diversity of business use for spatial technologies has grown over time in a somewhat piecemeal fashion.  Therefore council considered it prudent to develop a Spatial Information Strategy to ensure that business benefits are maximised and to identify if more appropriate technologies and or management practices can be leveraged to greater effect.  In an effort to more fully understand the scope of the strategy development a scoping study was undertaken whereby the key areas of the council that rely on spatial information were investigated to identify the key issues that a corporate strategy should address.
  
  Scoping Study for the Development of a Corporate Spatial Information Strategy
  
  
• Barwon Water
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	Barwon Water
  Project:	External Data Supply Policy
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2008
  Description:	Barwon Water is Victoria’s largest regional urban water authority providing world standard water and sewerage services to more than 275,000 permanent residents over 8100 square kilometres. Pilot projects allowing selected consultants direct access to Barwon Water’s spatial data for water and sewer infrastructure proved beneficial to both parties.  This was achieved by providing on-line deployment of Barwon Water’s Geographic Information System (GIS) into their offices.  It was apparent that information exchange between Barwon Water and its stakeholders and many internal work processes for all parties could be improved by adopting a similar approach on a wider scale. In conjunction with stakeholder and data custodians an investigation was completed by Jeff Clarke to capture and evaluate the business requirements, associated risks, costs and benefits of extending on-line information access to a wider base of potential business users.  The outcomes of this project were policies, guidelines and control structures that have guided Barwon Water in deploying its web based GIS to a wide range of stakeholders.  The technology, data and business solutions are very closely aligned to stakeholder needs and they are designed to reduce the liability risks to Barwon Water.
  
  External Data Supply Policy
  
  
• VicTrack
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	VicTrack
  Project:	Spatial Information Strategy
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Road / Rail
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	VicTrack is the custodian of a large majority of Victoria’s rail land and transport infrastructure with assets valued at over $5B.  Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by VicTrack to develop a Spatial Information Strategy for the organisation. This ensured that its spatial information infrastructure and capabilities were sufficiently supported and strongly aligned with current and future requirements,  as well as its strategic aims.  The project brief required that a review of VicTrack’s segmented use of spatial information be conducted with the provision of a spatial information strategic framework to improve key business outcomes and to provide VicTrack management with the confidence to continue investing in spatial information infrastructure. The two person consulting team had a focus on understanding the information management requirements of the organisation which was a collection of Property Management, Asset Management and Commercial Departments, including Telecommunications who provided services to Government and the rail operators.  Corporate GIS Consultants undertook extensive internal communication as well as interviewing external stakeholders and undertaking several workshop leading to the development of the strategy based around a corporate information management focus.  The outcome of this strategy was a report, including a cost benefit, which outlined a number of recommendations to provide the basis for a corporate GIS which also integrated with the initiatives of the Victorian Department of Infrastructure.
  
  Spatial Information Strategy
  
  
• Dubbo City Council
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Dubbo City Council
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Local Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained as a third party to undertake a review of GIS and IT in Dubbo City Council with a scope to investigate the underlying issues at Council causing friction between IT and GIS and facilitate a series of meetings between IT and GIS to attempt resolution and assist the Technical Services Division to better document GIS policies, procedures, strategies and agreed briefs.  This short project was focused on understanding the Council, its technology environment and the role that GIS had with the IT Branch.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• State Water Corporation
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	State Water Corporation
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	NSW State Water Corporation (previously part of the NSW Dept of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability) is a rural bulk water delivery business in NSW providing water to irrigation corporations, country town water supply authorities, farms, mines and electricity generators, by releasing flows from its dams into rivers to be accessed by water users.  State Water commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a GIS Strategy to ensure that the future direction of GIS continues to support and align with the current and future requirements of State Water and its strategic aims. This major project had a focus on understanding the spatial and non-spatial information management requirements of the organisation and its constituent stakeholders and the use of this information to deliver a range of business functionality.  Key outcomes of this strategy were that there were very strong business needs to implement a corporate GIS so that it can meet a number of business functional needs such as Property Management, Environmental Management, Asset Management, Customer Management, etc, but that this GIS should be part of an overall State Water “Information Management” Strategy to encompass a range of financial, asset and water management systems.  This strategy was presented to the Board and received endorsement subject to budget allocation.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Environment Protection Agency SA
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  Projects - South Australia

  Client:	Environment Protection Agency SA
  Project:	Corporate GIS Strategy
  State:	South Australia
  Industry:	Environment, Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	The EPA is South Australia’s primary environmental regulator.  Its mission is to manage and influence human activities to protect, restore and enhance the environment and to support human wellbeing.  Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned by EPA to develop a corporate GIS Strategy that would increase its decision making capacity, provide better understanding of risks and align spatial information with policy direction and initiatives. Jeff Clarke from Corporate GIS Consultants was tasked with working with all business groups, stakeholders and EPA Management to review the current spatial environment and technologies, identify data coordination and management issues and analyse the business requirements.  The outcome was a Strategy that highlighted the most appropriate use of GIS to satisfy EPA’s environmental and compliance business requirements, based on a cost benefit analysis. A collaborative partnership was recommended with an allied environmental department within the same Government Portfolio as part of a cost effective solution.  Extensive consultation and communication between Agencies was required to ensure that the business partnership was based on a clear understanding of responsibilities thereby maximising the chances of success.
  
  Corporate GIS Strategy
  
  
• City West Water
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	City West Water
  Project:	Business Requirements Specification for the Asset Management System component of the Integrated Asset Management Environment
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	Following development of an Asset and Information Technology Strategy, Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to undertake the first strategy initiative – the development of a business requirements specification for one of the nine systems identified as key components of the integrated asset management (iAMS) environment.  The Asset Management System (AMS) specification covered all asset management assets, activities and business processes and specified integration requirements between the AMS and other iAMS system components..
  
  Business Requirements Specification for the Asset Management System component of the Integrated Asset Management Environment
  
  
• Australian Federal Police
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Australian Federal Police
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Dispatch, Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by the Australian Federal Police to develop a corporate Spatial Strategy and Business Case for the 6,000+ strong organisation covering a very diverse set of business Portfolio's.  This project involved reviewing the business requirements of many AFP portfolio’s and teams to understand their Geospatial requirements and the use of the existing MapInfo, Intergraph CAD and PROMIS systems to meet business needs.  The Spatial Strategy and Business Case were presented to the National Managers Group and the Science and Technology Steering Committee of AFP and were endorsed for implementation.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Australian Federal Police
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Australian Federal Police
  Project:	AeGIS (AFP Enterprise GIS) Business Case
  State:	ACT
  Industry:
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants developed the Business Case for the AFP Enterprise GIS (AeGIS) environment which received funding from the Science and Technology Steering Committee (of AFP) and from several other business units and became operational.
  
  AeGIS (AFP Enterprise GIS) Business Case
  
  
• Australian Federal Police
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Australian Federal Police
  Project:	Business Requirements for Implementation of Geospatial Services
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Federal Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2007
  Description:	In early 2007, seed funding was provided by several AFP portfolio’s to undertake priority work on a number of operational projects.  Bruce Douglas provided assistance in the definition of business requirements and in the creation of this capability.
  
  Business Requirements for Implementation of Geospatial Services
  
  
• SCI Geo & Data
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	SCI Geo & Data
  Project:	Business Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Private Company
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2006
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by SCI Geo & Data, a business of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, to develop a strategy for the development of their business past their (then) current operation based on one single project for a large government agency to that which would be able to support their 19 staff in a GIS bureau environment.  Because of the nature of the physical disabilities of a number of their operations staff, their business requirements were quite different thus requiring careful consideration of a commercial direction that would sustain the requirements of the staff.  The outcome of this project was a re-launch of the business with a clear focus to grow the operations into a diverse and successful business.
  
  Business Strategy
  
  
• City West Water
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	City West Water
  Project:	Asset Information and Technology Strategy
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2006
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioend to develop an Asset Information and Technology Strategy designed to position the organisation to most effectively manage its assets throughout the next Water Plan period (2007 – 2013).  The assignment included a review of the Current State environment and the formulation of the Target State environment ensuring alignment with existing IT frameworks, standards and practices.  The resulting report detailed the management, business process, data, and systems/applications frameworks and architectures required to ensure the organisation could successfully manage business assets in an environment of increasing regulation and community expectations and included budget projections across the ensuing Water Plan period.  The assignment included geospatial and traditional information systems including integration requirements.
  
  Asset Information and Technology Strategy
  
  
• Albury-Wodonga Corporation
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Albury-Wodonga Corporation
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Land Management
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2006
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by the Albury-Wodonga Corporation to provide assistance with the re-development of their GIS Business from being an in-house service to that being outsourced to a third-party provider in order to facilitate the eventual winding-down of the Corporation over the next 5 to 8 years.  This project was a particularly delicate assignment in order to ensure that details about the winding-down of the Corporation did not become public knowledge, given that they owned large tracts of undeveloped land and wanted to avoid rumours in the land development industry about an impending “fire-sale” of the Corporations assets.  The project required Corporate GIS Consultants to review and analyse an existing offer (including developing a short report) and then to undertake a confidential tender process and initial screening of responses before assisting with the financial arrangements for the Corporation.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Murray-Darling Basin Commission
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Murray-Darling Basin Commission
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2006
  Description:	Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MBDC) retained Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a review of their Natural Resource Information (GIS) Unit for River Murray Water and the Natural resources Management Division.  This was a major project with a focus on understanding the information management requirements of the Commission, a unique organisation involving five State and Territory governments and the Australian Government in a partnership focused on coordinating the efforts of each jurisdiction to meet the outcomes of the Murray-Darling Basin Initiative.  The MDBC reports to the Ministerial Council on a program of environmental and operational works / outcomes covering a diverse range of initiatives across the Basin.  Corporate GIS Consultants undertook extensive internal communication as well as interviewing external stakeholders and undertaking several workshop leading to the development of the strategy based around a corporate information management focus. The outcome of this strategy was a report, including a cost benefit, which outlined a number of recommendations to move the GIS unit forward into corporate information management while providing the corporate basis for use of this technology by each Program of both River Murray Water and the Natural Resource Management Divisions.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Sydney Water
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Sydney Water
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2005
  Description:	Sydney Water Corporation (SWC) retained Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a review of Geospatial Information Services across the corporation.  A major focus of the project was understanding the multiple GIS environments including HYDRA GIS and Works Asset Management System (WAMS) environments in addition to the water modeling and waste water modeling systems and the impending field resource system.  This was a major project with a team also including a spatial implementation specialist and a specialist in developing cost / benefits and business cases for large asset based IT projects.  SWC could be described as a “system rich” environment which has evolved from an organisation with large staff numbers (>15,000 over two decades ago) requiring many and complex systems, to the current organisation of lower staff numbers (<3,500) but still retaining the large numbers of complex information technology and geospatial information environments which supported a business many fold this size.  This environment includes a number of major and minor geospatial information systems.  The project included extensive stakeholder discussions, reviewing a number of high-level process flows and data inter-dependency matricies as well as undertaking a correlation of findings against the GIS / Spatial Best Practice Survey outcomes over the last 6 years.  A external comparison with four similar utilities was also undertaken. The development of the final Strategy included considering a number of options with the Desired (Target) State focusing on providing a Single Authoritative data source for the provision of geospatial information services across the corporation.  This report also included developing detailed Transition Steps to move from the current environment to the Desired State over a number of years. Following extensive consultation within Sydney Water, the Strategy was endorsed by management and budgeted for implementation commencing in the 2006/07 financial year
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Gold Coast City Council
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Gold Coast City Council
  Project:	GIS Strategy and Business Case
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Local Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2005
  Description:	Gold Coast City Council (including Gold Cast Water) retained Corporate GIS Consultants to review the disparate GIS environments within the organisation in order to determine the most efficient and effective means of delivering spatial services to each of the Business Units and Directorates.  This project involved extensive interviews with operational, technical and management personnel as well as investigations into the technologies being used within the Council.  This project resulted in a number of recommendations to enable the organisation to embrace a corporate culture with access to corporate asset data.  The resulting report was accepted by the CIO and became part of a further report (also developed by Corporate GIS Consultants) to the Corporate Governance Committee, chaired by the CEO.  This report was subsequently adopted and Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to undertake further stakeholder consultation to prepare a Project Management Plan, Executive Leadership Team presentation and a final report to Council for ratification.  This plan was adopted by the full Council in December 2005 and is being implemented. When the GIS Report and draft Business Case was presented to the Corporate Governance Committee of the Gold Coast City Council, Mr Dale Dickson, CEO stated that “this caliber of report be the standard for future reports encompassing major technology and organisational change”.
  
  GIS Strategy and Business Case
  
  
• Minara Resources
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  Projects - Western Australia

  Client:	Minara Resources
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	Western Australia
  Industry:	Mining
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	Minara Resources (previously Anaconda Nickel) have a $1.5B Nickel mine and processing plant at Murrin Murrin, approximately 200km north of Kalgoorlie and a head office in Perth.  Minara have been using GIS for approximately 5 years as a drafting tool without it being totally effective or meeting all the needs of the business.  There was a growing need for GIS to be used as a corporate resource as well as to provide additional capability for resource discovery, tenement holding management, environmental management etc.  Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to develop a GIS Strategy for which integrated with Minara’s corporate applications (mainly Oracle based), and their specific geological, mining and surveying applications.  This involved undertaking extensive stakeholder consultation in head office and on-site at Murrin Murrin.  The resultant strategy for a corporate GIS was developed (and subsequently approved by the Board) based upon an Oracle Spatial corporate database approach.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Integral Energy
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Integral Energy
  Project:	GIS Data Capture and Maintenance Review
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were engaged by Integral Energy to undertake a review of the GIS Data Capture and Maintenance process in August 2004, some 20 months after the roll-out of the new GIS in late 2002.  Integral Energy replaced its 10 year old GIS system with the roll out of the Intergraph G/Electric GIS in December 2002.  This represented a substantial change in system function and process in the delivering of capability to approximately 50 data editors and 300 data viewers across the organisation and externally to approximately 50 Accredited Service Providers.  Asset data, particularly spatial data, underpins all Integral Energy transactions and business decisions and provides the mechanism for Integral Energy to provide power to approximately 830,000 customers using approximately 400,000 in-service poles.  The findings relating to the problems of the GIS data capture and maintenance process, and the backlog growth was due to a number of issues which could be categorised as data issues; system (software) issues; organisational issues; training issues; and process issues.  The outcome from this project was a Final Report containing a number of recommendations.
  
  GIS Data Capture and Maintenance Review
  
  
• Barwon Water
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	Barwon Water
  Project:	Geospatial Technology Stratgey
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	Carole Lowe from Corporate GIS Consultants undertook a review of the Barwon Water GIS system in late 2003 followed by a Business Case and Cost / Benefit Study in mid 2004. In parallel to the development of the Business Case, Bruce Douglas was to requested to undertake a Geospatial Technology Strategy across Barwon Water, encompassing the business functions covered by GIS, the several asset management systems, telemetry, CAD and water / sewer modelling. This was an extensive project and one which focussed on addressing the business issues inherent with the geospatial environment, the data required to support this environment and the business methodology required to integrate these processes across the utility.
  
  Geospatial Technology Stratgey
  
  
• Barwon Water
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	Barwon Water
  Project:	GIS Review, Specification and Tender
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	Carole Lowe was engaged to undertake an independent review of the Water Utility's use of Geographic Information Systems.  Barwon Water first implemented GIS technology in the late 1980's and wished to review the issues and challenges they were currently facing with a view to determining the next steps to take in their continuing use of the technology to meet current business needs and long-term strategy objectives.  Carole's review investigated 3 options – continue with the current system and development plans, significantly upgrade / supplement the current system, and replace the current system.  The investigation encompassed both internal "purchasers" and "providers" of GIS technology to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current implementation, the critical success factors for future GIS development, and possible future business uses of the technology.  Other aspects to the review included investigating additional integration opportunities, and a series of GIS Best Practice comparisons against other Utilities utilising the technology. Following acceptance of the GIS Review report and recommendations, Carole was retained to undertake a cost/benefit analysis for the upgrade or replacement of the Utility’s current GIS system.  The assignment involves confirming current business requirements and their support for business strategies, determining the costs for both the ‘system upgrade’ and ‘system replacement’ options, identify the benefits that will result from acquiring a system that will meet current and likely future business requirements and determining (over a 5 year period) the Net Present Value and break even period. In parallel to the development of the Business Case, Bruce Douglas was to requested to undertake a Geospatial Technology Strategy across Barwon Water, encompassing the business functions covered by GIS, the several asset management systems, telemetry, CAD and water / sewer modeling.  This was an extensive project and one which focused on addressing the business issues inherent with the geospatial environment, the data required to support this environment and the business methodology required to integrate these processes across the utility.
  
  GIS Review, Specification and Tender
  
  
• Board of Surveying and Spatial Information
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Board of Surveying and Spatial Information
  Project:	Roadmap & Framework for NSW Spatial Information Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	The Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI) is charged with the development and promotion of spatial information initiatives within New South Wales and is enabled under the Surveying Act 2002 to provide a number of spatial information activities within NSW.  In order to address these functions, BOSSI retained Corporate GIS Consultants to develop a Road Map and Framework for a NSW Spatial Information Strategy.  The findings resulting from this project highlighted that the most important issue has been identifying the need to get the Governance Model and the Engagement Model correct for the subsequent Spatial Information Strategy for NSW – based on a “peak body” or “Spatial Council” in that jurisdiction, consisting of representation from most industry sectors; managed and implemented by (and uses the services of) the “Lands” agency within that jurisdiction; and focused on the dataset which is the most sought-after and important dataset by all stakeholders (ie, the cadastre), also managed and maintained by the “Lands” agency within that jurisdiction.
  
  Roadmap & Framework for NSW Spatial Information Strategy
  
  
• Royal Botanic Gardens
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Royal Botanic Gardens
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	In early 2004, the Royal Botanic Gardens commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a review of their GIS and Tree Management Systems operating on three major Botanic Garden estates across Sydney.  This was an extensive project which involved considerable stakeholder discussion, investigation of a number of field data capture products and the proposed integration of the CAD and the GIS environments.  The existing Tree Management System was reviewed with a number of recommendations tabled to provide a Strategy for the Botanic Gardens to move towards providing a complete management system for their living collections.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Townsville Port Authority
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Townsville Port Authority
  Project:	GIS Requirements Study
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2004
  Description:	The Port of Townsville is a regional port specialising in bulk cargo handling with a land and sea jurisdiction in excess of 400 square kilometres. It exports and imports large quantities of sugar, mineral concentrates, refined nonferrous metals, large quantities of mineral ores with a growing trade in general cargo.   Each year approximately 700 ships pass through the port facilitating trade, the use of land for port related infrastructure and the delivery of port related services.  In order to improve the management of the organisation and resources as well as to integrate various organisational functions, Townsville Port Authority commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to determine the requirements for a GIS which may assist this integration including a Needs Analysis as well as to undertake a Cost Benefit for a GIS which would suit the needs of the Authority. The major findings resulting from this project were that there is a very strong need within Townsville Port Authority to have better access to information about leases, assets, environmental issues etc; better understanding of the correlation of information from these different information categories by different TPA business teams; and better understanding of the implications of specific decision paths.  An “information management system” is required for TPA to provide access to the data / information necessary for TPA to: effectively undertake its business; provide an expanded range of services to new and existing customers; and  reduce both the monetary and governance risk by ensuring that decisions are based on correct and up-to-date information.
  
  GIS Requirements Study
  
  
• Centrelink
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Centrelink
  Project:	GIS Strategy
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Federal Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2003
  Description:	In mid 2003 Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to develop a GIS Strategy for Centrelink.  This involved reviewing the several current spatial environment across the organisation, their use and storage of data relevant to their business, demographic and address data, the business needs of the organisation to access this data and the corporate directions of Centrelink to deliver effective services on behalf of their client agencies. This also included reconciling the many systems and database environments with the spatial environment, particularly to ensure that business needs were met and that data integrity was maximised.  The final report recommended that a number of issues be addressed, particularly the reconciliation of the customer data across their many business systems.  Most of these recommendations were subsequently adopted.
  
  GIS Strategy
  
  
• Department of Planning
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Department of Planning
  Project:	Review of Land Management System
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2002
  Description:	Based upon the work undertaken in developing the GIS Strategy for PlanningNSW, Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to review the previous work undertaken in developing the Land Management System for the Land Management Branch, a business unit of the department charged with the acquisition and disposal of government land.  A business and technical review were undertaken followed by the development of a technical specification which would integrate the GIS requirements (using ESRI software) with the property management and financial requirements using the MRI software.  Bruce Douglas was further retained during 2002 and into 2003 to project manage the development of these applications and the roll-out of this across the Branch.  An outcome of this project was that LMS3 was the successfully implemented and met / exceeded client requirements.
  
  Review of Land Management System
  
  
• Dept of Planning
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Dept of Planning
  Project:	iPlan Business Case
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2001
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Business Case for iPlan, an initiative of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP).  The Business Case was for $3.17M and was developed in line with the requirements of DITM (OIT) and NSW Treasury.  The Business Case was subsequently accepted by DITM and recommended to Treasury for approval.
  
  iPlan Business Case
  
  
• Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
  Project:	GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions Review
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2001
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to undertake a Review of GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions for the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP).  DUAP has an aging GenaMap system and groups using ESRI and Mapinfo systems to undertake a number of tasks across all the business groups.  This included urban and rural planning, natural resource mapping, map production etc.  Following considerable user workshops and executive discussions to determine the technical and business requirements for the GIS Review, a number of options were determined which led to the development of a Strategy to change the focus from the collection and management of data to the use of data to meet business needs.  The Strategy was accepted by the Steering Committee and Executive - Corporate GIS Consultants are currently oversighting the implementation of this strategy.
  
  GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions Review
  
  
• Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
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  Client:	Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
  Project:	GIS Business Case
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2001
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Business Case for iPlan, an initiative of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now PlanningNSW).  The Business Case was for $3.17M and was developed in line with the requirements of DITM (OIT) and NSW Treasury.  The Business Case was subsequently accepted by DITM and recommended to Treasury for approval.
  
  GIS Business Case
  
  
• Department of Urban Services
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Department of Urban Services
  Project:	Implementation of GIM (Geographic Information Management) Strategy
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	2000
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to implement the first stage of the Geographic Information Management (GIM) Strategy developed in mid 1999 for the ACT Department of Urban Services.  This very large project includes managing the definition and scoping of “core” data, the data dictionary and data model process, interoperability of the three GIS applications (Intergraph, ESRI and Mapinfo), spatial architecture definition process and the review and audit of the asset management systems.  In addition, the project needed to be cognisant of the broader government e-Services agenda, including Canberra Connect and to ensure that the overall technology and data architecture could support the need of the wide range of business units.
  
  Implementation of GIM (Geographic Information Management) Strategy
  
  
• Department of Urban Services
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  Projects - ACT

  Client:	Department of Urban Services
  Project:	Geographic Information Management (GIM) Strategy
  State:	ACT
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1999
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Geographic Information Management Strategy for the ACT Department of Urban Services.  Urban Services had a large number of GIS groups using a range of Intergraph, ESRI and Mapinfo systems to undertake a number of tasks across all the business groups.  This included cadastral mapping, environmental management, parks management, roads and stormwater management and land planning and management.   Following considerable user workshops and executive discussions to determine the technical and business requirements of a GIM Strategy, a number of options were determined which led to the development of a Strategy to change the focus from the collection and management of data to the use of data to meet business needs.  This also resulted in recommendations to market test and possibly outsource the core data management and collection function.  The Strategy was accepted by the Steering Committee and Executive and is currently being implemented.
  
  Geographic Information Management (GIM) Strategy
  
  
• Burdekin Region Collaborative Group
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Burdekin Region Collaborative Group
  Project:	Options for Collaboration in Resource Information Management
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Land Management
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1998
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a GIS business strategy which would include a number of options for the collaborative development of a Resource Information Centre in the Burdekin District of North Queensland.  This initiative followed from the success of the Herbert Resource Information Centre in Ingham. The client stakeholders included: Canegrowers; Burdekin Shire Council; Dept of Natural Resources; CSR Sugar; South Burdekin Water Board and the North Burdekin Water Board.  Following review with stakeholders a number of options were presented with cost/benefit models, for possible action and implementation.  These included Employment of a Facilitator; Establishment of a Burdekin Resource Information Network (BRIN) and the commercialisation of a data capture and management centre.
  
  Options for Collaboration in Resource Information Management
  
  
• Brisbane Water
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Brisbane Water
  Project:	Business Review of GPS Applications
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1998
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to investigate the needs of Brisbane Water to use GPS technology as a tool to assist in the tracking of vehicles, and asset management generally, to assist the corporate initiatives. The results of this brief project was the development of two main scenario's, with associated cost/benefit models, based on a suite of technologies incorporating GPS and GIS.
  
  Business Review of GPS Applications
  
  
• Institute of Sustainable Regional Development
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Institute of Sustainable Regional Development
  Project:	Regional Spatial Information System Feasibility Study
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1998
  Description:	A Feasibility Study into a CQ Regional Information Service was undertaken by Corporate GIS Consultants in late 1998. The study involved assessing the feasibility of a large number of community groups, State and Local Government Groups collaborating to build a highly spatial Information Service. Covering the feasibility in terms of technology, organisational issues, costs/benefits and recommending the process to be undertaken, the project took a loosely defined requirement through to a stage where some certainty of approach and success could be observed.
  
  Regional Spatial Information System Feasibility Study
  
  
• Queensland Transport, Maritime Division
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Queensland Transport, Maritime Division
  Project:	Corporate GIS Strategy
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1997
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Corporate GIS Strategy for the Maritime Division of Queensland Transport. Maritime Division were undergoing rapid change and a re-focussing of their business directions. An Arc/Info GIS system had been used within Maritime for several years and considerable data and capabilities were gained. The corporate strategy was designed to fit with the IT strategy which was under development as well as to integrate with several systems and a number of new initiatives.
  
  Corporate GIS Strategy
  
  
• Queensland Transport / Main Roads
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Queensland Transport / Main Roads
  Project:	Corporate GIS Strategy
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Government, Road / Rail
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1997
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants developed a joint Corporate GIS Strategy for both the Queensland Transport and Main Roads Departments. This Strategy focussed on the business objectives of both organisations, considered the design and use of major MR systems (eg ARMIS) and was cognisant of current developments in the use of GPS for asset capture as well as capture of the base Main Road centreline. The outputs of this strategy resulted in the appointment of a cross department GIS Coordinator, development of standards and capture of the declared road network, the integration of effort from other major road systems as well as several other initiatives which would result in an integrated GIS focus.
  
  Corporate GIS Strategy
  
  
• South Australian Police, Fire and Ambulance
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  Projects - South Australia

  Client:	South Australian Police, Fire and Ambulance
  Project:	Business Plan for Common Computer Aided Dispatch System
  State:	South Australia
  Industry:	Dispatch, State Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1996
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants contracted to OsiTech to develop a Business Plan for the installation of a Computer Aided Dispatch System for the Emergency Services of South Australia. The services involved include Police, Fire (Metro and Country), Ambulance and SES and incorporates a mapping/spatial front-end. This business plan involved extensive development of cost models, impact onto the budgets of each agency and treasury as well as the providing costing information for system provision.
  
  Business Plan for Common Computer Aided Dispatch System
  
  
• Queensland Rail
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Queensland Rail
  Project:	SIS (Inc GIS/CADD/DMS) Business Plan and Cost Benefit Analysis
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Road / Rail
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1996
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to undertake a Business Plan for the implementation of a Spatial Information System (including GIS, CAD and Document Management Systems) across Qld Rail. This project involved extensive liaison with a large number of QR staff across a number of business groups and QR locations and resulted in a business plan which was recommended for implementation by a number of pilot studies. The Corporate GIS Consultants team included specialist financial and asset management staff as well as specific GIS skills.
  
  SIS (Inc GIS/CADD/DMS) Business Plan and Cost Benefit Analysis
  
  
• Dept of Planning & Development
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	Dept of Planning & Development
  Project:	IT/GIS Strategy
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Government, Land Management
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1995
  Description:	Development of an IT Strategy for the Office of Planning and Heritage (OPH). This strategy is designed to provide IT to enable the current Business Process Re-Engineering to move the business forward into new markets with innovation and flair. There is also a need to provide substantial communications with all Local Governments within Victoria, to integrate their Planning Scheme Amendments with those of OPH and to ensure that a number of statutory processes are devolved to Councils. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
  
  IT/GIS Strategy
  
  
• Spatial Information Systems Australia
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Spatial Information Systems Australia
  Project:	Market Survey for High Resolution Satellite Imagery
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Private Company
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1994
  Description:	Development of a study on the market for high resolution satellite imagery in Australia for SISA based around technology delivering, on a 2 day repeat cycle, tasked imagery with three dimension stereoscopic images used for a wide range of applications. This project involved researching the opportunities for this new market and produced a report outlining the market size based upon existing satellite imagery and aerial photography requirements. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
  
  Market Survey for High Resolution Satellite Imagery
  
  
• Land Titles Office
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Land Titles Office
  Project:	Electronic Lodgement Investigation
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1994
  Description:	A Feasibility Study was undertaken into digital lodgement of survey plans in NSW. This included consideration of the internal processes within LTO and the need for maintaining integrity of survey information as part of the process. This investigation subsequently led to the full strategy development undertaken Departmentally-wide. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
  
  Electronic Lodgement Investigation
  
  
• Department of Conservation and Land Management
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  Client:	Department of Conservation and Land Management
  Project:	Electronic Lodgement Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Government, Land Management
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1994
  Description:	CaLM, consisting principally of the Land Titles Office (LTO) and the Land Information Centre (LIC), retained Bruce Douglas from Price Waterhouse Urwick to undertake a review of the collection and processing of Deposited Plan (DP) Information in electronic form. This project involved reviewing the work being undertaken by both the LTO and LIC on the receipt of cadastral information, how that was treated for entry into the Digital Cadastral Map Base (DCDB), the issues of imaging of DP's and the impact that this has in the broader IT environment of each organisation. In addition, this project involved undertaking a stakeholders review and addressing the data providers (Surveyors) to gain information about their requirements as well as considering the business processes of technical information though each organisation. This project resulted in the development of a CaLM-wide technology strategy for the electronic lodgement, processing and conversion of survey data into specific GIS products involving the used of EDI, imaging and networking technology.
  
  Electronic Lodgement Strategy
  
  
• Office of Geographic Data Coordination
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  Projects - Victoria

  Client:	Office of Geographic Data Coordination
  Project:	State Digital Map Base Business Plan
  State:	Victoria
  Industry:	Government, Land Management
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1994
  Description:	Development of a management analysis plan for the operation of the State Digital Map Base (SDMB) for the state of Victoria. This plan needed to build on the arrangements currently in place with Melbourne Water (to provide the metropolitan cadastral data) as well as with Survey and Mapping Victoria (SMV) to provide the rural cadastre and topographic data. Bruce Douglas was responsible for developing the technical GIS and Data Management issues which were central to the development of the overall plan. A number of recommendations resulted from this project including the need to provide all data to OGDC, to undertake market studies to gain an appreciation of the commercialisation opportunities and to develop a number of packaged products for subsequent marketing. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
  
  State Digital Map Base Business Plan
  
  
• Road and Traffic Authority (RTA)
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Road and Traffic Authority (RTA)
  Project:	Spatial Information Systems Review and Strategy
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Road / Rail
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1992
  Description:	Review of the GIS needs of the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW, a $1.8B pa Government Department of about 7,000 staff who had built up expertise over a number of years in using a number of different GIS and CADD/Civil systems. However, RTA management had found that each GIS group was developing expertise, data and applications on different systems and at different sophistication levels without an overall coordination and management strategy. The use of the technology was very fragmented, there was no integration of data, considerable duplication of development of applications and no cohesive overall plan or strategy. This project included the review the use of GIS across the whole of the Authority, including Regional Operations, compiling data and functional models of the needs of the RTA organisational units to use the GIS technology to meet business goals and then to determine an optimal strategy which would deliver appropriate GIS capabilities to users as required. This included casual and low frequency users as well as high sophistication data capture and application development teams. The report contained many organisational and technical strategies including broad costs and benefits and implementation timetables for the promulgation of GIS as the Spatial Information Management decision support tool for the Authority for well into the future. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
  
  Spatial Information Systems Review and Strategy
  
  
• Brisbane City Council
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  Projects - Queensland

  Client:	Brisbane City Council
  Project:	Feasibility for Environmental Information Mgt System
  State:	Queensland
  Industry:	Environment, Local Government
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:	1991
  Description:	Feasibility study to determine the Brisbane City Council's needs for environmental data, to identify sources of existing data, to develop a broad definition of user requirements, some alternative options for implementation, recommend a direction and a cost benefit analysis. This consultancy involved interviewing in excess of 50 Council and State Government staff to determine their broad functional needs to analyse the GIS technology being used by Council, and also being used by the Sate Government Departments, and to propose the most appropriate computer based tools for the Environment Management Branch of Council to carry out environmental management tasks.
  
  Feasibility for Environmental Information Mgt System
  
  
• Energy Australia
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  Projects - New South Wales

  Client:	Energy Australia
  Project:	Business Case for GIS Upgrade
  State:	New South Wales
  Industry:	Utilities
  Project Type:	GIS Business Strategy
  Year:
  Description:	Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to develop a business case for proceeding with an upgrade to Energy Australia’s core spatial technology.  The business covered an outline of the upgrade efforts to date including investigation of upgrade options, the proposed project scope, project objectives and outcomes, project alignment with the organisations strategies and policies, organisational impacts and dependencies, cost / benefit analysis and risk assessment.
  
  Business Case for GIS Upgrade