ESRI Press Book on GIS and Return on Investment25/07/2008 |
| ESRI Press has published The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach, details a return on investment (ROI) methodology that explains how the implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) can create business value for an organisation.The authors are David Maguire and Victoria Kouyoumjian, ESRI's chief scientist and IT strategy expert, and Ross Smith, a member of PA Consulting Group's management team and leader of the firm's GIS initiatives. |
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Maguire believes that a wide variety of GIS practitioners, including managers and business architects, will use the material in the book, in conjunction with the supporting Web site to implement an ROI-based GIS project. The site provides access to all the tools and templates necessary to implement the steps in the methodology.
The original methodology was developed by PA Consulting Group and it was customised by the book's authors, under license from PA, for use by GIS practitioners. The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach is available from ESRI Press (ISBN: 9781589482005, 200 pp., $24.95). Read more about: GIS geographic information system Supplier: 0 More news from this supplier: Navteq Signs ESRI Enterprise Licence Agreement ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst 9.3 Desktop Solution ArcGIS Offers Quick Access to Premium Imagery Data ESRI's New ArcGIS API for Flex State of Qatar's Centre for GIS Recipient ESRI Award Exploring the Power of Spatial Thinking Kentucky City Will Deploy ArcGIS Software in Organisation Accessibility to GIS Data Store Eased Venezuelan Architects and Urban Planners Receive ESRI Award Microsoft Virtual Earth Offered with ArcGIS Online Services New Speed Profiles in Navigation High-Resolution Satellite Imagery on TV ArcGIS Supports SQL Server 2008 Sokkia Topcon Updates Agreement for South Korea Maps NASA Satellites Capture Images of Southern California Wildfires Value of Satellites for Conserving Wetlands OGC Reference Model The House that Maps Built Mining Title Cadastre and Registry for Mongolia Comments (0): |


