Getting Started: Building
Your Spatial Foundation
Brian Baldwin – Esri (bbaldwin@esri.com)
Ken Kato – University of Oregon
Adam Lawver – Michigan State University

Webinar Housekeeping• Please enter your questions in thechat box• Microphones will be muted• Q&A session at the conclusion ofthe webinar• Webinar is being recorded• Slides will be available• Survey following the webinar

Welcome to the ‘Campus Operations’ webinar series!

• Webinar 1 (September 16)—Getting

Started: Building Your Spatial Foundation• Webinar 2 (October 7) - Bringing GIS

Indoors: Space Planning and Optimization• Webinar 3 (October 28) - Building aMobile Workforce: Getting Decision
Support into the Field• Webinar 4 (November 18) - Optimizing

Utilities: Digitally Transforming NetworkManagement

Goals for the series• GIS is more than maps
• Build community• Share best practices• Highlight the value of ‘enterprise’ GIS• Configuration vs. customization

Getting Started: Building your Foundation - Outline• Why GIS?: Building a Geospatial

Strategy• Michigan State – Adam Lawver• University of Oregon – Ken Kato
• Resources• Q&A

WorkforceturnoverCovid-19
Shrinkingbudgets

Data silos

Hiring/retaining
talent3D Maps

Emergency Routing

GIS today
Racial andEthnic Disparities

TravelAnalysis
Hot Spot
Patterns

Sidewalk Ramp Status

Wi-Fi Planning
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

USC
California

TreeInventory

ChicagoWater
Management

Campus Visualization
COVID-19 JHU Dashboard

Universityof Toronto
CanadaGeospatial Infrastructure Is Transforming Campus Operations
Integrating and Leveraging Many Technologies
CommonSystems ofRecord
Link Analysis

Automation

SharedServices

Enterprise
Integration

Real-Time
Tracking

Advanced
Spatial Analytics

Geo AI &Machine Learning

Notebooks
Forecasting

OpenAccessIntegration

Clustering

Builders

Cloud
ComputingContainerization

Apps

Smart Mapping& Visualization

Institution wide licensing (US)Do you have a Geospatial
Strategy?

A Geospatial Strategy is a businessoriented plan that defines how auniversity will use GIS to achieve its
goals and desired outcomes.
The plan includes considerations of people, process, andtechnology needed to meet goals and overcome challenges.

Developing & Executing a Geospatial Strategy
The Esri Method…Maximize Impact

HIGH

Prioritization
High Value

Quick Wins

ACTIVITY D
ACTIVITY B

BUSINESS VALUEACTIVITY C

ACTIVITY ELOWACTIVITY A

HARD

EASE TO LAUNCHEASY"At the heart of all of thisdecision making...is data that wecan manage, report, visualize, andmanipulate through GIS"
Brian Swanson - Assistant VP and CFO,
University of Minnesota

Adam Lawver
Michigan State University

Michigan State University:
Seeing Challenges as Opportunity

Esri Getting Started: Building Your Spatial Foundation
Adam Lawver, Director of Campus Services, Infrastructure Planning and Facilities

Michigan State University
Top 100 GlobalUniversity

Leading
researchinstitution($700M)

5400 acres ofland

17 degree
grantingcolleges

50,000 students

24M square feetof space

Infrastructure Planning and Facilities
Infrastructure Planning and Facilities (IPF) is responsible for planning, building,maintaining, energizing, and beautifying the physical campus of Michigan State University.

PurposeOperationsPeople

We deliver services and facilities that
help Spartans change the world.

We manage all facets offacilities and campus parkWe employ approximately 1,300
employees (full time, part time, & student)

We value our people, our partners,and stewardship of our resources.

+Power plant and well system+
Capital Construction

Learning to work smart(er)• Problems appear in loops. What stage of maturity is your business?

• Individual technologies to create cost or energy savings• Exploration of operational technologies including augmentation• How do you create a portfolio of innovation best practices – across yourorganization? Innovation breeds more innovation.
• The payback may not always be favorable – but any idea will create loops of learning

through educated risk

A Silo Mentality
Infrastructure
Planning &Facilities

MSU IT
Services

Operational
efficiency
BuildingAutomation
MobileRobotics
Transportation
on demand
Utility masterplanNetwork
Cybersecurity
Data andanalyticsWiFi
Fiber
Cellular
GIS

MSU Police

SeniorAdministration

SafetyAwareness
Enforcement
Traffic
Management

Positioning
MSU as aleader
V2X
Mobility
Initiative
EnergyInitiatives

Academic andSocio-mobility
Research

Private-Public
Partnerships

Engineeringresearch
Social,economic, andpolicy research
Sustainability
research

MSU
Innovation
CenterCoordination
with industry
partners to
explore social
implications
and advancetechnology

How many organizational habitswere formed before an evidencebased approach?

The Business Case
Interoperability ofFacilities Information toImprove Workforce Efficiency$0.33/SF per Year

‘Bet on Everyone’

Mobile Robotics &Operational Dashboards

Equipping the 21st century workforce

Machines complementing Humans

with access to information at the pointof decision-making.

Bet onEveryone
3-30-300 RuleFY17-18 76,298 WO’s
FY18-19 89,822 WO’s
FY19-20 108,346 WO’s
(8 months in….)
15% more volume 18-19
17% more volume 19-20

Same FTE count….

Interoperability ofFacilities Information
to Improve Workforce
Efficiency$0.33/SFGIS Indoors webinar March 2019

waste-in-process
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/gcr/2004/NIST.GCR.04-867.pdf

Workforce
Routing throughIntegration ofIWMS and Assets
24,000,000 GSF$0.33/SF waste-in-process$7.9 million annually

AssetLocationIWMS

O&M Documents

Condition

Facility Condition
Assessment

Mobile Robotics

Autonomous Vehicle
Industry & Mobile Robotics
Industry

Fleet of Mobile Robotics“Up-Skill” workforce toreallocate to tasks
currently not being done.

Operational
Dashboards

Trust and buy-in throughpublic display of outputs
Connection to mission andpurpose….every day.
Pride and wins for teams

The ROI Value Proposition
Monetary returnor savings

Staying relevant– core to themission

Advancingresearch (livinglaboratory)

Faculty/student/
staff recruitment
and retention

Long term
sustainability

Studentoutcomes

The Opportunity

Ken Kato
University of Oregon

Key Takeaways• ‘Spatial glue’• Build a geospatial strategy foryour organization• Agile approach• Review where ‘GIS’ currently

resides at your institution• Operational awarenessResources

Welcome to the ‘Campus Operations’ webinar series!

• Webinar 1 (September 16 at 10 AM PT)—

Getting Started: Building Your Spatial
Foundation• Webinar 2 (October 7 at 10 AM PT) -Bringing GIS Indoors: Space Planningand Optimization• Webinar 3 (October 28 at 10 AM PT) -Building a Mobile Workforce: Getting
Decision Support into the Field• Webinar 4 (November 4 at 10 AM PT) -Optimizing Utilities: Digitally
Transforming Network Management

Actions• Contact account managers- Where do I start?
- What’s my licensing?
- How do I build a geospatial strategy?

• Questions/Issues:- Brian Baldwin – bbaldwin@esri.com• Resource pages/links

Thanks so much!

Q&A