10 Reasons Why Location Analytics Should be Taught in Business Schools

[JosephKerski]

10 Reasons Why Location Analytics Should be Taught in Business Schools

1. Businesses exist to add value.
2. Location is vital to all aspects of business.
3. Location analytics adds value to business.
4. Location analytics are increasingly used in decision making in business.
5. Location analytics enables businesses to achieve their mission, serve their customers, and benefit society.
6. The world of business is in a state of continual change.
7. Location analytics enables businesses not only to manage current operations, but to plan for and enable change. 
8. Cultivating location analytics skills increases an individual employee's value to a current or future employer.
9. Adding location analytics courses and programs helps any School of Business become more vibrant and relevant for their campus and the greater society.   
10. Location analytical tools, data, and output increasingly exist in a cloud-based environment, which offers a rich platform for collaborating, analyzing, and communicating.  

Slides

There is an in-depth set of slides that further expand on these 10 key reasons (the a20 PDF). 

Feel free to use all or a subset of the slides that expand these messages, located here:

https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/curricular-resources-and-messaging-for-teaching-locatio...

Feel free to also use this set of slides that explains why location analytics is important in business teaching, learning, and research:  https://community.esri.com/t5/education-blog/messaging-case-studies-curricular-resources-and/ba-p/88... 

For More Information

To learn more, see the Location Analytics in Business Education landing page.