GIS Manager's Group

The 12th annual State of the Cities report identifies the unique challenges and opportunities facing cities, towns and villages across the United States, offering a comprehensive analysis of community priorities in 2025.   This is essential information if you work in municipal GIS. It is critical that you align your work to support the priorities of executives and elected officials. This report helps document those priorities.

https://www.nlc.org/resource/state-of-the-cities-2025/

The 2025 Esri Senior Executive Summit videos are online. These are great ways to show execs the benefits & potential of GIS, so be sure to share them. You can never have enough executive sponsorship...

https://mediaspace.esri.com/channel/2025%2BEsri%2BSenior%2BExecutive%2BSummit/382857813

Awesome Article in the Esri Young Professionals Network Group

At the GIS Managers Summit in July, attendees were able to submit questions for our live panel. While we had some great answers, there were dozens of questions we didn’t have time for, so we’re going to answer them here!

Our panelists will be posting, Q&A-style, over the next few weeks, so check back here regularly!

At the Summit, members of Esri’s ArcGIS Solutions team introduced and demo’d the GIS Request Management Solution.  The solution includes several pre- or partially configured apps that help drive increased participation and collaboration in your organization. 

Here are some of your questions answered, and if you have more questions, please post them here!

Here's an example of a best practice. For GIS Day, Fresno Co., CA produced this video and StoryMap to help promote the value of GIS to the County and community. All GIS groups should do the same.

At the GIS Managers Summit in July, attendees were able to submit questions for our live panel. While we had some great answers, there were dozens of questions we didn’t have time for, so we’re going to answer them here!

Our panelists will be posting, Q&A-style, over the next several weeks, so check back here regularly!

This week, @AdamCarnow answered a particular question about executive engagement, and resources available to help:

At the GIS Managers Summit last week, attendees were able to submit questions for our live panel. While we had some great answers, there were dozens of questions we didn’t have time for, so we’re going to answer them here!

Our panelists will be posting, Q&A-style, over the next several weeks, so check back here regularly!

This week, @Kara_Shindle answered questions about building a proactive team.