Nikolas Smilovsky, GISP| GIS Business| 02.05.13

WHO MOVED MY “GIS”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0M2CL9TJE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwavPPNgbjw&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1atNpDg0dx4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE – SYNOPSIS VIDEOS

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE – CLASS DISCUSSION

• In Johnson’s book, the cheese is a metaphor. What does it represent?

• What does the maze represent?

• Identify both the cheese and the maze in the evolution of GIS. Then consider if the cheese moved. Imagine the ways you might have to cope with the changes.

• How have you reacted to GIS change in you life?

• Murphy’s Law

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE – CLASS DISCUSSION

• Classify change? Good, the bad, the ugly….

• In the parable, Johnson says the four characters represent the four parts of ourselves, from the simple to the complex. What does him mean; which character represents which part of ourselves? Is there one character you relate to more than the others?

• Why is it so hard to accept change?

• http://magicoficecream.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/who-moved-my-cheese-learning-from-the-rats/

HOW CAN GIS BE USED TO DETECT, ANALYZE, & ADAPT TO CHANGE?

• Real Estate? - Property Management, Proximity Analysis

• Mining? – Mineral detection & mapping, Predictive Modeling

• Energy & Utilities? – Asset Management, EIA, Supply Management

• Government? – Resource Allocation, Information Dissemination

HOW CAN GIS BE USED TO DETECT, ANALYZE, & ADAPT TO CHANGE?

• Homeland Security? – Disaster Management, Crime Analysis

• Business? – Market Analysis

• Logistics? - Advanced Routing

• Wall street? – Trend Analysis, Target Clustering

GIS MARKET ANALYSIS

• “Garbage in is Garbage Out”

• Only as good as the data

• Weighted Overlay Analysis• Proximity Mapping• Nearest Neighbor Analysis• Trend Analysis• Clustering Analysis• Networking Analysis• Routing Analysis• Statistical Analysis & Repeatability

• Other Various Deterministic Interpolation leveraging GeoStats

• ESRI BUSINESS ANALYST

• http://www.esri.com/software/businessanalyst

• REPORT ASSIGNMENT

• Due on February 12th, 2013 by midnight.• Please submit the assignment via Blackboard.• The final document MUST be a PDF.• Minimum report length is 3 pages.• Maximum report length is 6 pages.

• Based on the book Who Moved My Cheese & GIS analysis please prepare a book report that relates the lessons in the book to modern business concepts and GIS. Secondly building off the book report, choose an industry and create an innovative hypothetical business plan. Show how the use of GIS can revolutionize this industry. In nature, GIS has the ability to store, compute, and analyze massive amounts of data. By using personal writings, citations from the text, GIS analysis, graphs, mind maps, snapshots, and maps prove to the reader that in your model, GIS will help the bottom line.

• I WILL BE IN LAB TONIGHT TO HELP STUDENTS WITH THEIR REPORT ASSIGNMENT. PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING LAB IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC QUESTION.

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