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13 | GEOSPATIAL STRATEGY ESSENTIALS FOR MANAGERS MATTHEW LEWIN Essential Practices of High-Performing Organizations What Leaders Focus on for Success To better understand why geospatial leaders are successful, we need to understand what they do well. What are the common practices that these organizations excel at that correspond to better business outcomes? Advanced organizations, it turns out, demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in 14 practice areas spanning five organizational domains. Each practice correlates significantly with improved business outcomes, indicating that these practices are "essential" to geospatial success. Additionally, the practices correlate significantly with each other, indicating that these practices could be considered "keystone habits". This means they enable and reinforce other good habits. Below are summaries of the 14 practices across five pillars of location intelligence: Strategy, Technology & Data, Organization, Culture and Literacy. Strategy Geospatial leaders don't leave success to chance. They build carefully-crafted strategies that determine how to leverage geospatial data, technology and expertise to advance the organization's strategic objectives. These strategies go beyond one or two departments and cover the entire business. Essential Strategy practices of leading organizations include: • Measuring and tracking business outcomes: Rigorous and quantitative methods to track and monitor the business outcomes of their geospatial initiatives and investments • Strategic alignment: Close alignment between the geospatial strategy, IT strategy and business strategy • Stakeholder support: Broad support from relevant business stakeholders; a relentless Strategy Organization Technology & Data Culture Literacy • Measuring and tracking business outcomes • Strategic alignment • Stakeholder support • Leadership commitment • Professional development • Governance framework • Integrated support and project delivery • Scalability and flexibility • Access and sharing • Innovation • Collaboration • Promotion and awareness • Patterns of use • Business capabilities