Address and street data delivers significant value across local government by serving as a corporate resource that enables data linking, service integration, and improved decision-making. Yet, the teams managing these vital resources often face challenges in securing investment.
GeoPlace’s RoI consultancy service helps local authorities clearly demonstrate the financial, operational and strategic value of their address and street data. By providing a bespoke assessment tailored to each authority, the service produces robust, evidence-based reports that resonate with senior leaders and budget holders.
Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders, the RoI service quantifies benefits such as:
- efficiency savings
- improved service integration
- income generation
- better decision-making.
Proven through successful use by councils including Nottingham and Tameside, the service equips teams with the insight and confidence needed to secure ongoing investment in high-quality, authoritative address and street data.
In the following videos, Sarah Abbott, GIS manager, Nottingham City Council and Graham Holland, Strategic Lead for Planning, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council outline the benefits enabled from the service.
You can find out about these in more detail below.
How has the ROI study has helped Nottingham City Council's budget saving exercises?
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What are the efficiencies gained in Nottingham, and how could they be even better?
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What are the tangible financial returns for Nottingham City Council?
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What were the most important results of the ROI study for Tameside Council?
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How will the results will be used within Tameside?
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What benefits has the study bought to Tameside Council?
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ROI report
Exemplar customised ROI report for Nottingham
In 2023, Nottingham City Council and GeoPlace worked with the independent strategy advisors ConsultingWhere, to undertake a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of the benefits of using geocoded address and street data
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Proving the return on investment in address and street data
In this article from UK Authority, Simon Barlow, Executive Director of Consultancy at GeoPlace explains the importance providing a customised view of the financial benefits from utilising essential location enabled databases.
About the service: what is in this for my local authority?
- Do you struggle to explain why the Address and Street gazetteers are important and lack the figures to prove the benefits?
- Do you need to defend your expenditure on maintaining your local address and street gazetteers?
GeoPlace commissioned specialist management advisors ConsultingWhere, to undertake a national assessment of the Return on Investment (RoI) of the address and street data to local authorities. This demonstrated how, nationally, these datasets can realise an average 6:1 return on investment. Read More
We’ve now customised this work to provide a RoI report at an individual local authority level to equip teams with compelling evidence to secure senior leadership and budget-holder support for investment in robust address and street data. This has been successfully used in budgeting discussion within authorities.
What will you get?
- An expert assessment of the value of address and street data to your local authority, including interviews with your key users and decision makers to ensure the analysis is customised to your situation, both the challenges and opportunities.
- A detailed report providing an assessment of economic value specific to your local authority. The report will be presented in the language and format designed to engage senior decision makers.
- A PowerPoint presentation summarising the value of address and street data expressed in terms that are simple for citizens as well as decision makers to understand.
- Links to the customised integration reports, background sources of further guidance and related studies.
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ROI Report
National Return on Investment Report
Assessing the value of Address and Street data to local authorities in England and Wales
Webinars: 24th September and 3rd October 2024
Return on Investment: Why is this relevant to my authority?
Join us for a webinar to understand the importance of Return on Investment to justifying continued investment in geo-referenced address and street data.
