The Uses and Benefits of GIS Software
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The list of uses and benefits of GIS that appears on page 7 of the GIS Book (5th Edition) gives many potential uses, but overlooks two essential areas -- military uses and consumer buying habits. The military uses are probably the main driving force behind the expenditures on GIS Software and Hardware. The possible reason why this is not emphasized is that military uses donĘt seem positive. For instance, it would be possible to pool all of the available data concerning Iraq or Afghanistan and to determine the movements of the enemy and the movements of the military and to predict future movements. Such action and activity are available now and the information is probably buried in the pounds and pounds of documents that have been gathered, for instance, by the CIA or the NSA. The use of GIS software would let new levels of spatial understanding be developed from a wide variety of existing government systems - from databases and legacy applications to wireless solutions. Every agency stores data related to location, whether it be related to customer data, health information, or even shipping routes. Although database and data mining technology enable users to sort through information in any number of ways, its greatest weakness remains its relative inability to extrapolate data based on area or location. That includes making use of specific data such as area codes, postal/zip codes and addresses. This is the area of GIS where more consumer information will be enhanc
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he Patent and Trademark offices. The key to these is centralization and centralized data. On the other hand, the private sector tends to be moving in the direction of decentralization of activity and management. If so, then the statement becomes a bit more effective, for there is ample evidence that companies, both large and small, are undergoing a quantum shift from hierarchical structures to a more loose and interactive system of management decision making, one which will require a new generation of GIS access and flexibility.
In the GIS field, new organizational structures and information retrieval systems are challenging managers to develop innovative constituency relationships. Academic literature has long described the fact that managers have multiple obligations to multiple interest groups that include, but are not limited to, subordinates, superiors, fellow managers, stockholders and other financial stakeholders, and the local and global community. A GIS analysis could show these stakeholders in new relationships.
The primary consistency in today's workplace is uncertainty. Daniels (1998) said
The desire for ever-increasing flexibility in business operations remains as prominent as it did in the early- to mid-1980s
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Approximate Word count = 3194
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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