Wednesday, August 20, 2008

More Things About Information Systems Development - 8th Week in INTRICT

On our 8th week in INTRICT discussion, Sir Oli told us more things about Information Systems Development.

Stages of Information Systems Development
- Planning
- Analysis
- Designing
- Implementation
- Support and Maintenance

Organizational Knowledge
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Service
- Production
- Distribution
- Inventory and Purchasing
- Human Resources
- Accounting
- Product Development

Information Problems
- Data Capture
- Data Storage
- Information Processing
- Distribution and Access to Information
- Presentation of Information

Information Systems Elements
- Hardware
- Software
- People
- Process
- Data
- Network

These were presented to us but we focused only on Planning, Analysis, and Designing this week.

Planning
- What is the situation that requires the use of an Information System
~ Internal Improvement
~ Internal Problem
~ External Mandate
~ Strategic Decision

- Is It Feasible?
~ Economic
~ Technical
~ Organizational
Analysis
- Finding the detailed information
- Data Gathering
~ Interview
~ Observations
~ Document Review
~ Survey
- Modeling
- Also Known as Problem Analysis
~ Process
~ Data
~ Systems
- Information Problem
~ Data Collection
~ Information Processing
~ Distribution and Access to Information

Design
- What the Information System will be like
~ Matching every problem identified with the features of the Information Systems

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