Thinking about GIS : Geographic Information System Planning for Managers.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 GIS: The whole picture -- Scope of GIS projects -- The who, what, when, where, why -- Chapter 2 Overview of the method -- The nine-stage GIS planning methodology -- Focus: Let each step inform the next -- Chapter 3 Consider the strategic purpose -- Chapter 4 Build the foundation -- Focus: GIS and management accountability frameworks -- The planning proposal -- Assemble the teams -- The planning team -- The enterprise planning team -- The management committee -- The crucial role of GIS manager -- A note about the organizational structure -- Focus: Plan ahead for the time commitment -- Chapter 5 Conduct a technology seminar -- Seminar components and tips -- Focus: Purpose of the technology seminar -- Set the stage -- Plan the program -- Assess information needs -- Go with the workflow -- Focus: Modeling workflow processes -- Chapter 6 Describe the information products -- The individual components of an IPD -- Focus: IPDs: The building blocks of GIS planning -- Title -- Name of the department and person who needs it -- Synopsis -- Map output requirements -- Schematic requirements -- List output requirements -- Focus: Three-dimensional representation -- Document retrieval requirements -- Steps required to make the product -- Processing complexity -- Focus: ArcGIS Online -- Focus: A rapid prototyping tool -- Display complexity -- Frequency of use -- Focus: Measuring display complexity -- Logical linkages -- Error tolerance -- Focus: Maximize efficiency -- Wait and response tolerances -- Current cost -- Benefit analysis -- Sign-offs -- Case study: Tracking the IPD -- Master input data list (MIDL) -- Components of an MIDL -- Assembling the MIDL -- Functions needed to input data -- Focus: Using and creating a data cache -- Focus: Data shoe box -- Setting priorities.

The scoring method -- The group-consensus method -- Input data priorities -- Chapter 7 Consider the data design -- Data characteristics -- Scale -- Resolution -- Map projection -- Focus: Data accuracy -- Error tolerance -- Case study: Determining the required positional accuracy -- Data design capabilities -- Survey capabilities -- Topology -- Temporal data -- Cartography -- Geoprocessing and spatial analysis -- Network analysis -- Focus: Data structure for networks -- Imagery -- Terrain modeling -- Mobile technology -- Integrated services -- Data logistics -- Digital data sources -- Standards for technology and data -- Data conversion and interoperability -- Focus: Finding data on the web -- Focus: Search capabilities -- Chapter 8 Choose a logical database model -- The relational database model -- Components of the relational model -- The object-oriented database model -- Components of the object-oriented database model -- Class diagrams -- The object-relational database model -- The geodatabase -- Focus: Ontologies -- Advantages and disadvantages -- Chapter 9 Determine system requirements -- Scoping hardware requirements -- Data handling load -- Defining workstation requirements -- Data hosting and user locations -- Data storage and security -- Preliminary software selection -- Summarizing the function requirements -- Classifying system functions -- Interface and communication technologies -- Choosing a system interface -- Network communications -- Focus: Data capacity and data-transfer rates -- Client-server architectures -- General issues of network performance -- Distributed GIS and web services -- Determining system interface and communication requirements -- Platform sizing and bandwidth requirements -- User workflows -- Workflow technology choices -- Standard workflow baselines -- Custom workflows.

Case study: City of Rome system requirements -- Focus: Alternative system design strategies -- Other considerations -- Organization policies and standards -- Technology life cycles -- The preliminary design document -- Focus: Writing the preliminary design document -- Chapter 10 Consider benefit-cost, migration, and risk analysis -- Benefit-cost analysis and cost models -- Identify costs by year -- Focus: The cost model -- Calculate benefits by year -- Focus: The benefit approach -- Compare benefits and costs -- Calculate benefit-cost ratios -- Migration strategy -- Legacy systems and models -- New considerations -- Pilot projects -- Risk analysis -- Identify the risks -- Discuss the risks in context -- Describe ways to mitigate the risks -- Assess and score each risk -- Summarize the level of risk -- Chapter 11 Plan the implementation -- Anticipate the challenges of implementation -- Focus: Key issues to address in implementation planning -- Staffing and training -- Focus: GIS leadership teams: Establishing responsibilities -- GIS funding -- Organizational issues -- Institutional interaction -- Legal review -- Security issues -- Existing computing environment -- Risk analysis -- Alternative implementation strategies -- System procurement -- Focus: Request for proposal (RFP) outline -- Activity planning -- Focus: Selection criteria -- The final report -- Report components -- GIS management committee review and approval -- Merging the GIS plan with the overall business plan -- Implementation change -- Technology change -- Institutional change -- Managing change -- Start with an enterprise-wide plan -- Acquire technology -- Add information products -- Inform management about change -- Keep your plan current -- Communication -- Appendix A GIS staff, job descriptions, and training -- Appendix B Benchmark testing.

Appendix C Network design planning factors -- Appendix D Custom workflows -- Appendix E City of Rome system architecture design alternatives -- Lexicon -- Acronyms -- Further reading -- Index.

Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers presents a planning model for designing data and technology systems that will meet any organization's specific needs.

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