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The ORDIT project holds as a central tenet the importance of assisting designers in considering organisational requirements, and has developed techniques and tools to this end. Conventional systems analysis has largely focussed on defining information processing requirements rather than looking at information technology from a wider perspective. Thus it is common for systems to be created which, although technically sound, do not satisfy the needs of their human operators. All too often technical solutions to problems are created which do not adequately support the way in which the human components of the work system are organised. It is argued that for information systems design to be successful it is essential that these aspects are also taken into account during the analysis and specification stages of product development.
Author(s): Poulson DF, Oswald G, Chudge J, Strens MR
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1992
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/07/1992
Source Publication Date: July 1992
Report Number: 383
Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/383.pdf
