Research and Markets, the largest resource for market research information in world providing essential market research reports, industry research, industry analysis, forecasts, market studies, company profiles and country reports.
Welcome - Home - Register - Login - Help/FAQ - 0 items View Basket
Worlds Largest Market Research Resource - 722074 Live Reports
Search Research and Markets
  Search
Enter keywords, a title or
a report id number below.





Advanced   
Company search
Register for free email updates of market research
Currency
  Select a currency for use throughout the site



Viewing report

Order by Fax
Printer Friendly
PDF Brochure
Send to Friend
Enquire before Buying
| More
Hard CopyAdd to Basket



Achieving Business Success with GIS
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Jan 2008, Pages: 176

  Description  

  Table of Contents  
    
    
    
   
 Enquire before Buying  
 Send to a Friend  

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction.

2 The Spatial Information Industry.

2.1 Background to the Survey.

2.2 Value of the SI Industry.

2.3 GIS Product Usage.

2.4 Spatial Applications.

2.5 Training.

2.6 Spatial Data.

2.7 Imagery.

2.8 Mobile Computing.

2.9 Regional SI Initiatives.

2.10 Summary.

3 Introducing the Elements of a GIS Strategy.

3.1 The Traditional IT Strategy Approach.

3.2 The SI Strategy Approach.

3.3 Influences of Disruptive and Distractive Technology.

4 Developing the Business Focus.

5 Developing the Data/Information Focus.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Metadata.

5.3 Data/System Architectures.

5.4 Defining the ‘Data Gap’.

5.5 GIS Data Standards and Related Issues.

5.6 GIS Data Interoperability.

5.7 Summary – Data Interoperability.

5.8 Summary – the Data/Information Focus.

6 Developing the Organisational Focus.

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Impact of Organisational Structure on GIS.

6.3 Achieving an Organisational Focus for GIS.

6.4 Business Process Mapping and Re-engineering.

6.5 Training and Support Issues.

6.6 SWOT Analysis.

6.7 Summary – Organisational Focus.

7 Developing the Application and Technology Focus.

7.1 GIS Issues.

7.2 IT Issues.

7.3 System/Data Integration Issues.

7.4 Developing the Functional Requirements Specification.

8 Developing a GIS Strategy.

8.1 Functional Requirements Specification (FRS).

8.2 Correlating against the CSFs.

8.3 Developing the GIS Strategy.

8.4 Summary.

9 Cost/Benefit Analysis/Return on Investment.

9.1 Broad Costs.

9.2 Broad Benefits.

9.3 Broad Cost/Benefit Summary.

9.4 Business Case.

9.5 Conclusion.

10 Selecting a GIS.

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 Selecting a GIS using a Tendering Process.

10.3 The Final Stage of the Selection Process.

11 Implementing GIS.

11.1 Staff Training.

11.2 Data Capture and/or Conversion.

11.3 Defining the KPIs (Goalposts) for Successful Implementation.

11.4 Implementing and ‘Setting to Work’ of the GIS.

11.5 Undertaking a Post Implementation Review.

11.6 Benchmarking.

11.7 Summary.

12 The Best and the Worst.

12.1 And the Best is . . . Google Earth.

12.2 And the Best is (also) . . . Web 2.0.

12.3 And the Worst is . . . .

13 Closing Remarks.

Glossary.

Index.

Product samples

A sample for this product is available. Please Login/Register to download this sample.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization

Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing

Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS

Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS: A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, 2nd Edition

World Remote Sensing Data and GIS Software Markets

Where in the City Using GIS to Manage Government Information (Strategic Focus)

Geographic Information System (GIS) 2008-2011

Commercial Remote Sensing Data and GIS Software Markets

The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping

Geographic Information System (GIS) in North America

Geographic Information System (GIS) in EMEA 2008-2011

The 2009 Report on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping: World Market Segmentation by City



Top of page


   All rights reserved. © Copyright 2009 Research and Markets
   Terms and conditions Privacy Policy Publishers Employment Opportunities Site Map Link to us Webmaster


Research and Markets RSS Feeds