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  2. Systems analysis - Wikipedia

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    Systems analysis is "the process of studying a procedure or business to identify its goal and purposes and create systems and procedures that will efficiently achieve them". Another view sees systems analysis as a problem-solving technique that breaks a system down into its component pieces and analyses how well those parts work and interact to ...

  3. Structured analysis - Wikipedia

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    Structured analysis and system specification published in 1978 by Tom DeMarco. Structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM) first presented in 1983 developed by the UK Office of Government Commerce. Essential Systems Analysis, proposed by Stephen M. McMenamin and John F. Palmer [7] IDEF0 based on SADT, developed by Douglas T. Ross in ...

  4. Structured analysis and design technique - Wikipedia

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    Structured analysis and design technique (SADT) is a systems engineering and software engineering methodology for describing systems as a hierarchy of functions. SADT is a structured analysis modelling language, which uses two types of diagrams: activity models and data models .

  5. Structured systems analysis and design method - Wikipedia

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    Structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM) is a systems approach to the analysis and design of information systems. SSADM was produced for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , a UK government office concerned with the use of technology in government, from 1980 onwards.

  6. Soft systems methodology - Wikipedia

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    The Soft Systems Methodology was developed primarily by Peter Checkland, through 10 years of research with his colleagues, such as Brian Wilson.The method was derived from numerous earlier systems engineering processes, primarily from the fact traditional 'hard' systems thinking was not able to account for larger organisational issues, with many complex relationships.

  7. Systems analysis and design - Wikipedia

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    Systems analysis and design, an interdisciplinary part of science, may refer to: Systems analysis, a method of studying a system by examining its component parts and their interactions Structured data analysis (systems analysis), analysing the flow of information within an organization with data-flow diagrams

  8. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

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    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) [a] is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), [1] and is the default accounting standard used by companies based in the United States.

  9. Systems engineering - Wikipedia

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    QFD house of quality for enterprise product development processes. The term systems engineering can be traced back to Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1940s. [1] The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as a whole, which in complex engineering projects may greatly differ from the sum of the parts' properties, motivated various industries, especially those developing ...