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water safety, sanitation management, hydropower and irrigation all require
environmental information for optimal reservoir management. New decision
support for wastewater and storm water management requires the knowledge
of precipitation, storm surge, winds, for optimal hedging of risk. Also, the
salt water intrusion into the water table due to climate change associated
variables such as sea level rise and droughts is of major concern to the
coastal communities of several countries.
Food Security: The agriculture industry has long been an important
user of environmental information for food and silage security and crop
supply chain management. The seasonal to inter-annual information on
temperature, winds, dew point and precipitation are of considerable interest
to this community. Information is used for selecting seed stocks,
determination of schedules for planting, irrigation, fertilization, pesticide
application, harvesting, inter-modal transport logistics, crop pricing and
futures trading.
Construction: The construction industry is business which, like the
financial services sector, underpins all of the infrastructure needs of the other
industries. Infrastructure design and siting relies heavily on metocean data
for structural design codes, location and materials selection and compliance.
Defense: This industry is a diverse one including national
governments as well as the private sector which serve as the civilian support
arm. Force projection as well as homeland security head up the major
functions. All branches of the armed services use information from the
observing system for operations to gain tactical advantage to strategic
planning for force readiness.
4.
Organizational use of environmental information:
Information needs within a company’s value chain
There is an increasing tendency for businesses to be organized around
their value chain or supply chain. By this we mean the functional aspects or
product/service line of their company. Even national agencies and ministries
are reexamining their structure and reorganizing in this fashion. The driver
for this type of reorganization is that it allows accountability for each of the
units in terms of how well they fulfill their function to the organization as a
whole. It is important to look at this structure to determine where the
environmental information being operationally produced by the met-ocean
community will have the most impact in the company- that is which units
are most at risk from the environment.
An example of how the value chain is reflected in the organizational
structure of a company is demonstrated in Figure 2, a diagram of the
organization of a major international construction company. BOVIS Lend
Lease (BLL), like other leading global construction companies are
OCEAN FORECAST FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT
water safety, sanitation management, hydropower and irrigation all require
environmental information for optimal reservoir management. New decision
support for wastewater and storm water management requires the knowledge
of precipitation, storm surge, winds, for optimal hedging of risk. Also, the
salt water intrusion into the water table due to climate change associated
variables such as sea level rise and droughts is of major concern to the
coastal communities of several countries.
Food Security: The agriculture industry has long been an important
user of environmental information for food and silage security and crop
supply chain management. The seasonal to inter-annual information on
temperature, winds, dew point and precipitation are of considerable interest
to this community. Information is used for selecting seed stocks,
determination of schedules for planting, irrigation, fertilization, pesticide
application, harvesting, inter-modal transport logistics, crop pricing and
futures trading.
Construction: The construction industry is business which, like the
financial services sector, underpins all of the infrastructure needs of the other
industries. Infrastructure design and siting relies heavily on metocean data
for structural design codes, location and materials selection and compliance.
Defense: This industry is a diverse one including national
governments as well as the private sector which serve as the civilian support
arm. Force projection as well as homeland security head up the major
functions. All branches of the armed services use information from the
observing system for operations to gain tactical advantage to strategic
planning for force readiness.
4.
Organizational use of environmental information:
Information needs within a company’s value chain
There is an increasing tendency for businesses to be organized around
their value chain or supply chain. By this we mean the functional aspects or
product/service line of their company. Even national agencies and ministries
are reexamining their structure and reorganizing in this fashion. The driver
for this type of reorganization is that it allows accountability for each of the
units in terms of how well they fulfill their function to the organization as a
whole. It is important to look at this structure to determine where the
environmental information being operationally produced by the met-ocean
community will have the most impact in the company- that is which units
are most at risk from the environment.
An example of how the value chain is reflected in the organizational
structure of a company is demonstrated in Figure 2, a diagram of the
organization of a major international construction company. BOVIS Lend
Lease (BLL), like other leading global construction companies are
OCEAN FORECAST FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT