Automating Land Survey Data

Paper Summary:

This paper attempts to define a series of system integration and process re-definition strategies to enable field notes obtained during land surveying to be electronically cataloged and automated for more efficient use. The paper addresses the reliability of the data itself, which is captured and noted in field notebooks. The paper focuses primarily on how to automate what is today a highly manual repository of data existing in the 200 field notebooks that comprise the accumulated data to this point.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Starting with Change Management Is Critical
From Data Repository to Enterprise Content Management System
Advantages of Creating a Land Surveying Content Management System
Disadvantages of Creating a Land Surveying Content Management System
Proposed Costs
Considerations of Change Management

From the Paper:

"The disadvantages of implementing an automated system to better manage the land use notebooks center mainly on both the time needed during work hours to train users in new procedures for using the system, in addition to the costs of integration with other systems to keep the current one relevant over time."
"In the majority of instances there are many more costs associated with implementing a content management system than initially appear during the forecasting stage (Columbus and Murphy 2), and the level of integration with other systems continues to drive up the costs of these types of implementations. With all these shortcoming said however, the savings in efficiency and accuracy of queries does have a significant effect on the Return on Investment (ROI) of this type of program."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aguirre, Calderone, Jones -10 Principles of Change Management. Resilience Report, Booz, Allen Hamilton. New York, NY. Accessed from the Internet on December 5, 2006: http://www.strategy-business.com/resilience/rr00006?pg=all
• Caudron - Taking Charge of Change. Business Finance Magazine. January 1999. Page 27. Accessed from the Internet on December 5, 2006: http://www.businessfinancemag.com/magazine/archives/article.html?articleID=4931
• Columbus and Murphy. Re-orienting your knowledge and content management strategies. AMR Research Report., AMR Research. October 31, 2002. Page 2
• Dyche', Jill. The CRM Handbook. Addison-Wesley Pearson Education. ISBN 780201-730623. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 2002.
• Jenkins and Oliver - The Eagle & the Monk: Seven Principles of Successful Change (United Publishers Group, 1998)

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