Facility Management Minutes | Episode 2 Brian Cullis | GIS & Organizational Psychology
Welcome to Facility Management Minutes, a series where we dedicate time to sharing all things facilities management with you by interviewing experienced and innovative thought leaders in the industry. Our guest on this episode is Brian Cullis, Senior GI&S Strategy Consultant at Woolpert.
0:00:00 - Episode 2 | Brian Cullis, Senior GI&S Strategy Consultant, Woolpert
0:01:47 - Understanding the Challenges with Geospatial I.T. Adoption
0:06:38 - Establishing the GeoBase Program
0:12:14 - One Base, One Map - Reconciling Different Perspectives
0:18:56 - Characteristics that Distinguish Successful Program Managers
0:26:56 - Mission & Scope of Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure
0:33:37 - Ensuring High-Quality Geospatial Data
0:42:43 - Location & GIS as the Organizing Principle for Different Business Data Sets
0:50:29 - Shifting from Military to Private/Non-Military Industry - Culture Differences
0:57:29 - How Org Culture Influences Information System Development/Adoption
1:08:24 - What Inspires You About the Facility Management Industry?
1:12:31 - Change and Innovation in Large Organizations
Brian started his career teaching geography at the US Air Force Academy where he learned a deep appreciation of the power of Geographic Information Systems or GIS. Brian applied his understanding of GIS and organizational psychology as he started and grew the Air Force GeoBase program to be the first service-wide programmatic approach to mapping defense installations. This standardized approach allowed the Air Force to roll up facilities and infrastructure information from the base to the command to the service worldwide and to allow personnel to easily transfer from one theater to another without re-training. Brian then took what he had learned at the Air Force to the Pentagon and helped establish the Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure organization and for the first time used geo-spatial data to support the work of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Since 2006, Brian has worked in private industry consulting with clients across many markets about what it takes to build and operate successful and resilient infrastructure information programs.
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