Objective Unrealised potential of best practice Geographical Information Systems (GIS) support for business processes across business domains:The geographic dimension in business interaction and cooperation between European public entities and private and public enterprises accounts for a significant volume of economic activity. The business processes involved are complex and cover relationships between suppliers, customers, authorities, agencies and citizens. Information technology in terms of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Workflow Management Systems and Process Modelling/Enactment Systems are increasingly supporting these business processes, but the full potential of best practice implementation is rarely realised and documented.Significant impact on European competitiveness from Best Practice GIS Concept: The effectiveness of these business processes is recognised as having significant direct and indirect impact on the competitiveness of European business in both the public and private sector. Therefore, a general best practice GIS based concept will through replication in other GIS supportable business processes across business domains potentially have an enormous benefit.Purpose and specific results: The purpose of the business best practice pilot definition phase project is to establish a best practice concept for subsequent implementation and replication. The result of the definition phase project will be a GIS based process concept, a performance measurement approach, a cost/benefit assessment and increased experience for the participating users and methodology and tools suppliers.Holistic perspective and approach on core business processes: The project adopts a prerequisite holistic perspective (i.e. focusing on end-to-end core business processes and life-cycles across organisational and enterprise boundaries) and approach as regards both business processes, technology, IT-Architecture (c.f. the concept of the virtual enterprise) and human aspects. A comprehensive business process modelling and IT-Architecture approach and methodology will be used for the analysis of existing and innovative future processes of the involved parties by experienced analysts, process and information modellers, change agents, researchers and technology specialists.Broad potential for enabling business transformation and complementation of Telematics Programme activities: The types of user organisation in the project, i.e. regional and local public entities such as counties and municipalities, have the general potential for trendsetting and enabling best practice because of their central role in the business processes. Therefore, these user organisations are ideal as the starting point for the analyses of the geography dependent and GIS supportable business processes. Thus, the project supports the transformation of the totality of the GIS using business community. Furthermore, the project is complementary (but not overlapping) to activities in the Telematics Programme as regards public administrations. Core business have been identified in pre-study: The project will specifically focus on core processes already identified in a pre-study. Among these core processes regional and local planning, regional development, plant processing and environmental impact assessment (EIA), cf. Council Directive 85/337/EOF, are identified as especially suitable for reengineering. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographycartographygeographic information systemssocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administration Programme(s) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 7.1 - Business Best Practice Pilots Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Soenderjyllands Amt EU contribution No data Address Amtsgaarden, Skelbaekvej 2 6200 Aabenraa Denmark See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Cannock Chase Council United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Civic Centre Beecroft Road WS Walsall See on map Total cost No data Fb Engineering Sweden EU contribution No data Address 40241 Goteborg See on map Total cost No data International Computers Limited United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Icl House- High Street 1 SW15 1SW London See on map Total cost No data Jens Bisballe Planlaegning A/S Denmark EU contribution No data Address Havnevej 3 4000 Roskilde See on map Total cost No data Roskilde Kommune Denmark EU contribution No data Address Skt Olsstraede 3 4000 Roskilde See on map Total cost No data Scanfort I/S Scanfort Denmark EU contribution No data Address Sesmosevej 2 2630 Taastrup See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address HIGHFIELD SO17 1BJ SOUTHAMPTON See on map Total cost No data