Business Competency Definitions (Gaudet et al. 2003)
| Business Competency | Definition |
Core
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| Ability to see the "Big Picture" | identifying trends and patterns that are outside a normal paradigm of the organization sources | X |
| Business Understanding | demonstrating awareness of the inner workings of business functions and how business decisions affect financial or non-financial work results | |
| Buy-in/Advocacy | building ownership or support for change among affected individuals, groups, and other stakeholders | |
| Change Management | helping people adapt to the changes brought on by new technologies and helping them to see the value and benefits of new technologies | X |
| Cost Benefit Analysis/RoI | understanding the relative costs of each geospatial technology, or combination of geospatial technologies and assuring that the organization is receiving a good value for the dollars spent on these technologies | X |
| Ethics Modeling | modeling exemplary ethical behavior and understanding the implications of this responsibility. | |
| Industry Understanding | demonstrating awareness of the vision, strategy, goals, and culture of the geospatial technology industry | |
| Legal Understanding | ability to understand legal issues affecting the application of geospatial information technology | |
| Organization Understanding | seeing organizations as dynamic, political, economic, and social systems that have multiple goals; using this larger perspective as a framework for understanding and influenceing events and change that can impact implementation and support of geospatial technologies | |
| Performance Analysis and Evaluation | the process of comparing actual and ideal performance in order to identify performance gaps or opportunities | |
| Visioning | seeing the possibilities of "what can be" and inspiring a shared sense of purpose within the organization | X |