GIS Consult grew over the last 25 years from a GIS startup with a handful of developers to a medium-sized company with more than 100 employees at several locations. Many different experiences, needs and attitudes come together. Building a mission statement was a good opportunity for us to exchange our ideas, similarities and expectations beyond all levels. We started in 2021 to build our mission statement in a bottom-up-process without specific instructions from our management or external support. It took over 9 months of regular participation of more than 60 employees in over 50 meetings and over 850 hours of work to identify the themes for our mission statement. The result is an authentic version of our GIS Consult that we all can identify with and that offers us orientation on our further journey and work together. Our mission statement describes our values and vision. Furthermore, is the wording deliberately chosen to describe the target state.
Who we are and what defines us
GIS Consult is a family, medium-sized IT service company. Our specialty is geographical information knowledge focused on consulting and development, in collaboration with partners at home and abroad. We are experts in integrated geodata management that is based on individual customer processes. We have special know-how when it comes to supply and disposal, road systems, real estate and public administration. We use our own software products as well as products of partner companies, and we also include OpenSource components as much as possible. Furthermore, we offer standardized products, data capture and training.
How we understand our work
Our goal is to support our customers with the ideal geoinformation solution(s) they need and to accompany them competent and long-term. We see our customers as partners with individual needs that we quickly respond to and support with personal contacts, patience, fairness and reliability. Each of us is part of successful projects, based on good cross-departmental collaborations and optimized workflow. Continuous quality assurance is very important for us. We have flat hierarchies and short official channels. Transparency and open communication are essential for our cooperation. The responsibilities for projects and products are well-defined. All relevant information is collected in a local system. We enjoy breaking new ground with our customers and partners and also constantly develop ourselves further.
What is important for us
GIS Consult is a reliable employer and partner that is respectful and honest. Besides economic aspects, our customers and colleagues satisfaction is crucial for us. GIS Consult allows much flexibility, free space and self-determination. As an employer we take our duty of care very seriously. In addition, we support our need for personal and professional development with aimed training offers. Through this everyone in our company can discover new work areas and remits depending on their expertise as well as new interests. This allows everyone to participate with their strenght and preferences to support our team and success. We also experience appreciation and recognition for our work through customary, success-oriented remuneration and further social benefits. Joint events, like sailing, family and Christmas parties, also strengthen our good working atmosphere and sense of community.
We are aware of our social responsibility and support private honorary as well as social regional institutions.
How we treat each other
We value the family atmosphere that prevails in our company and want to preserve it. Fun and humor are important ingredients for this.
Appreciative, open, and honest interaction based on mutual trust and respect is very important to us.
We work together to achieve our goals, and mutual support is a matter of course. Everyone takes responsibility for their actions, which is reflected, for example, in a tolerant culture of error.
Everyone is responsible, according to their abilities, for addressing grievances and conflicts promptly and constructively. In doing so, we treat each other with empathy, goodwill, and forbearance.)
Genderhinweis (in German)