Save the Planet: Recycle your rubbish Or Save your space: Recycle your data As we move from winter to the summer months’ people often think about cleaning their homes and gardens and this may include removing some of the clutter
The importance of having a spatial view of your assets
Asset management systems that don’t store spatial data, in my view, can cause significant hindrance to your organisation. Whatever your assets, there are many spatial-based techniques to capture data about assets: Drones or planes capturing LIDAR data (a laser scanning
New IT System, Same Old Data Problems. Part 3 – Avoiding surprises and minimising risk
In the previous parts of this blog we considered how data quality can impact the success of software implementation projects. In Part 1 we discussed how expectations of benefits that a new system may deliver may be tarnished by existing
New IT System, Same Old Data Problems. Part 2 – A pig with lipstick on is still a pig
In Part 1 of this series of posts, we discussed how your existing business data could limit the benefits of a new information system and said there is likely to be work to do to mitigate those risks. No matter what system
New IT System, Same old Data Problems. Part 1 – The lure of the shiny new toy
A new business information system, or decision support tool, is a big investment, but if you are considering buying a new system which promises to improve organisational effectiveness and efficiency, how confident are you that it will achieve these objectives if your underlying business data
The permanence of data
Have you ever thought about the permanence of data? Is data a permanent or a temporary thing? In some ways, data is a very transient thing – the conversation that prompted this post was with a colleague who was concerned that
GIS professionals – helping organisations to “Think Spatial”
I wanted to follow on from my post looking at GIS in the context of BIM projects by now taking a look at spatial data in the wider organisational information structure. To support both OPEX and CAPEX activities I want