Systems Analysis Design Fundamentals

Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach uniquely integrates traditional and modern systems analysis with design methods and techniques. By using a business process redesign approach, author Ned Kock enables readers to understand, in a very applied and practical way, how information technologies can be used to significantly improve organizational quality and productivity.

'Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals' goes significantly beyond what one would normally find in similar texts in terms of business process redesign, as well as related emerging trends in business.

'Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals' goes significantly beyond what one would normally find in similar texts in terms of business process redesign, as well as related emerging trends in business.

System analysis has been a battleground of ideologies over the past two decades. Unlike programming or hardware development, systems analysis sits between users and computer technology, and textbooks have reflected this ambivalent position. But a new age of information systems development is beginning. Users, not technologists, will drive systems development; applications, not computer uses, will motivate projects; end-user needs, not analysts' predispositions and computer marketing plans, will determine what gets built and how. This text provides students and readers with analytical skills essential in providing services to meet the complex, changing needs of the information systems customer.

Systems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach uniquely integrates traditional and modern systems analysis with design methods and techniques. By using a business process redesign approach, author Ned Kock enables readers to understand, in a very applied and practical way, how information technologies can be used to significantly improve organizational quality and productivity. Key Features: - Breaks new ground in the teaching of systems analysis and design by going significantly beyond what one would normally find in similar texts in terms of business process redesign, as well as related emerging trends in business - Offers a strong hands-on approach that is better aligned with what happens in the real world of organizations today than most traditional textbooks on the topic - Identifies new and innovative business processes for organizations through several mini-cases and one comprehensive case

The fourth edition of Systems Analysis and Design Methods contains two new chapters on object oriented methods and a new chapter on purchased application packages.

"For undergraduate and graduate course in structured systems analysis and design. This text is a briefer version of the authors' successful Modern System Analysis and Design, designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the material due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects. It features the "systems development life cycle model" which is used as an organizing tool throughout the book."--Publisher's website.