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Barwon Water
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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. |
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External Data Supply Policy
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Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water
| Client: |
Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water |
| Project: |
GIS Strategy Review |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Utilities |
| Project Type: |
Needs Analysis Review |
| Year: |
2008 |
| Description: |
Spatial information and GIS are core GWMWater business enablers that provide support for a range of business functions including Linear Asset Management, Hydraulic Modelling, Pipeline Design and Planning, and many others. Accelerated planning, design and implementation of a multi-million dollar pipeline project made it necessary for GWMWater to adapt its GIS strategic direction to ensure that key initiatives of the WMPP were realised. The consequence was a forgoing of planned GIS strategic actions and resultant core business impacts and inefficiencies. To address this situation GWMWater engaged Jeff Clarke from Corporate GIS Consultants to conduct an independent review of its GIS Strategy. This involved prioritising immediate and short term GIS business needs and opportunities. As a result there was improved clarity to the critical business roles of GIS and improved alignment of GIS strategic direction with other functional core business strategies. Organisational changes were recommended to satisfy demands of both the Pipeline Project and core business needs. |
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GIS Strategy Review
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VicTrack
| Client: |
VicTrack |
| Project: |
Assistance with Tender Preparation |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Utilities |
| Project Type: |
Specifications and Tenders |
| Year: |
2008 |
| Description: |
VicTrack engaged Corporate GIS Consultants to provide assistance with the development of a comprehensive set of tender documentation for the acquisition of an enterprise GIS. The assignment involved supplementing existing documentation that outlined system functional requirements with additional business and technology requirements. Additional, it involved the preparation of all tender related documentation including response schedules. Carole’s role on the project included defining the assignment approach, project plan, overall direction and project management (including quality control). |
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Assistance with Tender Preparation
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City West Water
| 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.. |
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Business Requirements Specification for the Asset Management System component of the Integrated Asset Management Environment
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VicTrack
| 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. |
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Spatial Information Strategy
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City West Water
| 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. |
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Asset Information and Technology Strategy
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City West Water
| Client: |
City West Water |
| Project: |
GIS Tender Preparation and Evaluation |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Utilities |
| Project Type: |
Specifications and Tenders |
| Year: |
2005 |
| Description: |
City West Water commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to develop a comprehensive set of tender documentation and specifications for release to tenderers to acquire a new GIS system. The documentation included technical / functional specifications and all business and commercial aspects. The assignment included the development of detailed evaluation methodologies and plans to support the evaluation process. Tenders were released to a short-list of vendors for subsequent evaluation and benchmarking. Corporate GIS Consultants facilitated the evaluation and selection process. |
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GIS Tender Preparation and Evaluation
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Barwon Water
| 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. |
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GIS Review, Specification and Tender
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Barwon Water
| 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. |
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Geospatial Technology Stratgey
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MSS Security
| Client: |
MSS Security |
| Project: |
Study of GIS Feasibility for Patrol Operations |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Private Company |
| Project Type: |
Needs Analysis Review |
| Year: |
1996 |
| Description: |
Bruce Douglas managed a small ream of consultants that undertook a feasibility study to use GIS for management of Patrol Operations for this large Security Company with approximately 40 patrols operating each night. This resulting cost benefit indicated the need for using GIS for a variety of tasks including patrol routing, re-zoning of patrols operations and for managing the new and existing business. |
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Study of GIS Feasibility for Patrol Operations
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Citipower
| Client: |
Citipower |
| Project: |
GIS Technical and Business Review |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Utilities |
| Project Type: |
Cost Benefit Analysis |
| Year: |
1995 |
| Description: |
Review of the use of the Smallworld GIS system and the integration of this system with the IT/CIS systems within Citipower - an Electricity Distribution Board resulting from the rationalisation of the electricity industry within Victoria. This project initially developed a high level cost benefit study based upon the business requirements of Citipower to meet the changed needs of their business and then developed into a broad review of the data capture program and the ability of Smallworld to meet corporate requirements.
This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick. Citipower was one of the five electricity distribution boards created from the amalgamation of Electricity Services Victoria (ESV), and a number of Municipal Electricity Undertakings (MEUs) and the rationalisation of the electricity industry in Victoria. The Smallworld GIS system, which had been used as part of Melbourne City Council electricity distribution responsibilities as well as for ESV's implementation before amalgamation, was continued after the creation of Citipower.
After considerable data conversion and GIS implementation costs, Citipower management expressed substantial concern about the very high cost (and perceived small benefit) which may be accrued from the GIS system. Due to this growing concern, a Price Waterhouse Urwick team led by Bruce Douglas, was commissioned to undertake develop a Business Plan for GIS, to determine costs and benefits and to highlight whether the strategy should be continued or discarded. Following the completion of this project, Bruce Douglas reviewed the changed needs of their business as well as a broad review of the data capture program and the ability of Smallworld to meet corporate requirements.
Citipower was then sold by tender to Entergy from New Orleans, and a management team took control of the company. Entergy (with a 100 seat GIS implementation in the USA) then reviewed the work undertaken to date and ratified the results of the projects and the Business Plan electing to escalate the data capture, implementation and integration with Citipower's other corporate systems. |
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GIS Technical and Business Review
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AUSTROADS GIS-T Liaison Group
| Client: |
AUSTROADS GIS-T Liaison Group |
| Project: |
GIS Workshop Facilitation |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Road / Rail |
| Project Type: |
Needs Analysis Review |
| Year: |
1995 |
| Description: |
Facilitation of a working group meeting to determine the overall strategy for GIS in transport for the AUSTROADS liaison group - an amalgamation of representatives from each State Road Authorities within each State Government in Australia. This resulted in clear directions for the development of common goals and applications for the next 5 years. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick. |
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GIS Workshop Facilitation
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Dept of Planning & Development
| 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. |
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IT/GIS Strategy
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Public Transport Corporation
| Client: |
Public Transport Corporation |
| Project: |
Functional Specifications for Property Management GIS |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Government, Land Management |
| Project Type: |
Specifications and Tenders |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Description: |
Management of the development of a functional specification for the Property Asset Management System (PAMS) to manage the property estate of PTC. This functional specification was developed so that it could be tendered for system development subsequent to completion of the project. The team developing the specification undertook a user requirements analysis, a specification development including data flow diagrams, data models, designing data inputs/outputs and interfaces and acceptance test specifications for the construction of the final system. This system would operate in the GIS environment then in use at PTC. Bruce then led the team which successfully tendered to construct PAMS in a joint Oracle and Intergraph MGE environment. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick. |
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Functional Specifications for Property Management GIS
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Office of Geographic Data Coordination
| 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. |
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State Digital Map Base Business Plan
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Bureau of Emergency Services Telecommunications
| Client: |
Bureau of Emergency Services Telecommunications |
| Project: |
GIS Strategy |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Dispatch |
| Project Type: |
Specifications and Tenders |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Description: |
Price Waterhouse Urwick was retained as the project manager for the development of a tender and implementation of a Computer Aided Dispatch system for Police, Fire, Ambulance and SES in Victoria. Corporate GIS Consultants provided specialist GIS skills on the project team involved in defining GIS requirements, developing the tender specification and interfacing into the requirements for Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) utilising GPS and GIS technologies. This also involved leading the technical team in the evaluation and benchmarking (including undertaking a number of scenario's) of the shortlisted systems leading to a recommendation to select a preferred supplier. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick. |
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GIS Strategy
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Boral Building Technologies
| Client: |
Boral Building Technologies |
| Project: |
Redesign of Drawing Office and CADD processes |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Private Company |
| Project Type: |
Productivity Review |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Description: |
Redesign of the Drawing Office processes of Boral Building Technologies who manufacture a range of elevators, moving walkways and building maintenance units. They had two drafting/design offices to develop production elevators and to maintain the standard components within each elevator module. This project involved undertaking a Business Process Re-Engineering consultancy which included developing a technical user requirements analysis of the Computer Aided Design (CAD) system currently in use at Boral. The results of this assignment included a re-designed business process and CAD system capability. A number of substantial problems were identified with the CAD system including a severe lack of training, lack of application integration and lack of common direction. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick. |
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Redesign of Drawing Office and CADD processes
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Federal Airports Corporation
| Client: |
Federal Airports Corporation |
| Project: |
Review of CADD/GIS System at Tullamarine Airport |
| State: |
Victoria |
| Industry: |
Government |
| Project Type: |
Needs Analysis Review |
| Year: |
1993 |
| Description: |
Review of the CADD system installed at FAC at Tullamarine airport which had been installed for about four years and had not achieved full potential. There were a number of issues which had to be addressed including the current management of the system, the applicability of the drawing office to the needs of FAC customers (eg airlines, other FAC groups, private companies etc) and the use of technology to address those needs. A CADD User Requirements Study and a Management Plan were completed, resulting it a number of recommendations for an altered business strategy to meet the business goals of FAC whilst retaining the document management and information enquiry goals of the drawing office. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick |
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Review of CADD/GIS System at Tullamarine Airport
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