Saturday, January 13, 2018

GIS Management Lab 1

This week in the Lab we focused on the introduction of GIS Management and worked with business processes and flowcharts. Two cases we studied used GIS in some way to better the business processes. This was our first attempt to identify the business processes and show how they changed so be gentle in the critique. The water service case study is definitely a business/single department based program that stayed within the departmental oversight environment. It focused on the field/mobile users which are the technicians utilizing the real time information. The bus location case study seems more project-based due to the fact that they are updating a previous system on the location app. This study falls under the “project” environment where the progress is monitored by team members. The study is focused on the casual/direct users that can pull up the information on the web based applications to located the buses. The following are the business process flow charts to compare before and after the changes.







References:
Croswell, P. L. (2009). The GIS Management Handbook. Frankfort, KY: Kessey Dewitt Publications.

Esri (2015). GIS Speeds Water Service Restoration. ArcNews Fall 2015 Vol., No. 3. 

Esri (2011). App Supplies Bus Locations and Schedules. ArcUser Fall 2011