D.F.Poulson
G. Oswald
J.S. Chudge
M.R. Strens
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1992
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.