Mainstreaming geographic information into IS training programs

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Mainstreaming geographic information into IS
training programs
July, 22nd 2003 Workshop 4B Training for the
Future dimitri.kanounnikoff_at_ensg.ign.fr
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Some quotations

• GIS technology may well have disappeared as a
  free standing activity in many organizations as
  its functionality becomes encompassed by
  business-oriented systems, such as those for
  market analysis, and it becomes part of wider
  management information systems 1991, Maguire
  et al.
• Spatial is not special 1999, J. Pellici, Vice
  President of Oracle Corporation
• Vendors will need to identify new opportunities
  for unique location-enabled solutions that will
  arise within existing enterprise information
  systems ... Those vendors who do not take
  advantage of these opportunities will find
  themselves competing for an increasingly smaller
  revenue pool Dec. 2002, Henry Morris, vice
  president of Applications and Information Access
  software research at IDC

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How is this economically driven reality
translated into training programs?
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Giving IS specialists the geoinformation reflex
is important for NMOs because

• It increases the use of geographic information by
  fostering its application in corporate and
  administrative Information Systems
  (geoinformation reflex)
• It helps understand their clients needs
• It trains people having a good vision of what the
  IT evolutions could be ? more likely to
  anticipate on the futures needs
• It represents a good way to develop partnerships
  in the IT world
• It is cheap (successful training programs can
  even be profitable)

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An example of training program

• MSc in Informations System Management and
  Spatial Applications ENSG / ENPC / ENST
  (ParisTech)
• Three pillars
• Technical (includes geomatics)
• Managerial
• Professional Applications
• Transversal apprehension of the spatial dimension
  of Information Systems
• See http//msi.ensg.ign.fr for more info

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Many thanks for your attention