GIS-Pro 2026

What if your team could walk into a room with a list of challenges and walk out with a prioritized set of actionable solutions - all in under an hour? Solution Mapping makes that possible. In this hands-on exercise, participants will experience Solution Mapping firsthand - a facilitated group exercise developed by the Geospatial Professional Network that blends the structured prioritization of Lean Coffee with the collaborative clustering of Affinity Mapping.

Participants will identify real problems facing their organizations, use dot voting to surface the issues that matter most, and collectively brainstorm solutions in an open, low-barrier format. Whether you're a analyst looking for fresh ways to engage stakeholders, a team lead navigating organizational change, or a practitioner who wants to bring more collaborative energy to your workplace, Solution Mapping is a technique you can take home and use immediately.

Keywords: solution, mapping, collaboration, actionable, confidence

Tim Nolan, GISP, CGCIO, LAVM, Senior IT Manager, Collin County, McKinney, TX - USA