Establishment of learning organisation structure for GIS companies
Demir, Nusret, Tansu Tosun and Petek Tatli
GIS application development and implimentation is very complicated when organisational structure of the company is strictly hierarchical . For a GIS effort to be successful, all of these components of organisation should be carefully coordinated and integrated. There are many ways to improve organisational behaviors. One of them is establishment of learning organisation. Organisational learning for a GIS Company involves individual learning and those who make the shift traditional organisation thinking to learning organisations develop the ability to think crtically,creatively and analitically. Because GIS implimentation provides techological infrastructure and so organisations must improve themselves due to high competation in GIS industry. Learning issue basicly can be described as a relatively permanent change in behavior. When this issue is thought for organisational structures,it has been defined as organisational learningg.In 1970a that definition has been told about discovering faults and solving them for firms. Organisational learning has four features those are acquiring information, delivering information,explication on information, and last one is organisational memory. The concept learning organisationn for the first time has been get place in Peter Singee s "The Fifth Discipline" book in 1990 for litarature in management. He defines Learning Organization as "a group of people continually enhancing their capacity to create what they want to create." Information Systems presents three processes Knowledge Acquisition, Information Distribution, and Information Interpretation. For carrying out these processes,learning organisations can be useful because of their structure has three implimentation levels.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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