Abstract
![]() A Functional Taxonomy for a Customer Driven Enterprise GIS Track: GIS Organization, Management and Implementation Author(s): Brent Johnson, Evan Brown, David Crosby, Stephen Brown Since 2002, Sarasota County, Florida, has had an established Enterprise GIS. Once the GIS operations were in place the county recognized the strategic value of GIS technology and the need to apply its use to business processes. The county began an Evolution of GIS from reactive project development to proactive customer driven project planning. This effort was driven by a set of GIS Vision Meetings, which allows the county to analyze, identify, develop, and prioritize GIS. This new organizational model is based on four functions or taxonomy's of county services, built, environmental, social, and economic rather than the traditional departmental or unit based organization. This allows more of a distributed GIS, which leads to collaboration, cooperation, coordination, and commonality of GIS within the county. Brent Johnson Sarasota County Geomatics Service Center 1301 Cattlemen Road Bldg. A Sarasota , FL 34232 US Phone: 941-861-6534 E-mail: bljohnson@scgov.net Evan Brown Sarasota County, Florida Watershed Management 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd. Sarasota , FL 34240 US Phone: 941-650-3491 E-mail: ebrown@scgov.net David Crosby Sarasota County Geomatics Service Center 1301 Cattlemen Rd. Bldg. A 2nd Floor Sarasota , FL 34232 US Phone: 941-861-6182 E-mail: dcrosby@scgov.net Stephen Brown Sarasota County Planning Services GIS 1660 Ringling Blvd. 5th Floor Sarasota , FL 34236 US Phone: 941-861-5967 E-mail: sbrown@scgov.net |