A progressive organization thinks: “If we’re so Good, Why Aren’t We Better?”
An organization stuck in the past thinks: “If there were a better way, we would have found it, and we’d be doing it।”
Projects are about technical management of delivery so all Quality aspects should be fixed by technical persons with exposure to different technology and organizations. Often this aspect is ignored when matters reach to decision-makers who can be easily influenced by the non-technical sales persons types.
Project management model for outsourced GIS services and IT/GIS consultancy projects can never be same. Identify the key factors, resourcing systems and role definitions. Consultancy projects demand expertise while data conversion projects require man management only.
Develop a capable team. Team members need a good understanding of the project’s fundamental components-goals, objectives, scope, problem statement, constraints and vision. This is the team that keeps a company ahead of other competitors.
Identify key sort-term goals. Form an Action Plan. Focus on long run perspective. Develop expertise and strategies.
Find a Business Strategist with a thorough understanding of Technology and GIS market to help the decision-makers by giving unbiased, for-sighted views on various business opportunities, pilots and other initiatives. This person should drive BD and Sales team because these teams usually focus on sort-term gains due to the pressure of their monthly review meetings and targets..
Control the practices and views that hide the underlying problems.
