Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS

Description:

"Whether you work in the public or private sector, Measuring Up will help you gain insight about how intelligent geographic information systems—digital versions of geography—encapsulate our knowledge and provide a foundation to help us better serve our world by improving efficiencies, decision making, planning, accountability, and communication."
Jack Dangermond, ESRI President

Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS offers case studies about companies and government agencies that have implemented GIS solutions to meet business goals and how their successes with this technology measure up in:

Saving money and time

Increasing efficiency, accuracy, productivity, communication and     collaboration

Generating revenue

Supporting decision making

Aiding budget development

Building information bases

Managing resources

Measuring Up presents 75 articles from 22 business sectors. They tell us not only what people around the globe are doing with GIS, but how these new business processes have improved communities and organizations.

Table of Contents:

acknowledgments

foreword

chapter topics/industry matrix

introduction

save money/cost avoidance

save time

increase efficiency

increase accuracy

increase productivity

increase communication and collaboration

generate revenue

support decision making

aid budgeting

automate work flow

build an information base

manage resources

improve access to government

enterprise gis

summary

organization index