the analysis phase identification and evalutation of sources of information,”when deciding what type of network was required for a new information system 3 RRD management consulted staff extensively. View a (video) of Kath Latch, station manager dicuws this process IN order to run a analysis of a system the first step must be to idefnitify the sources of information that will provide views on the running of the current system. THis will include the users of the information the system produces, users of the actual system and people who support the system. Each of the groups will provide into that contributes to the construction of an overall picture of the running of the system. In each of the broad groups idenitifed above, there will be diffrent categories or subgroups within it. It is important important that input is recieved from all of those parties so that a well-balanced overall view of the system can be developted. In order to perform an analysis of a system a number of people must be consulted of the information the system produces, users of the actual system and people who support them when performning an anayalsis of the current system, the view of the users of the system are parmount in successfully recognising the strenght and idenfying weaknesses present. The first task of the analysit will be to identify who they need to consult to find out about the current system.In doing this, they will need to identify the following users of the system: those who provide data, those who input data, those minpulate the data and those who recieve data. As well as those who own or run the organization for they will also have ideas as to what the systemis doing what it can be doing or what it should be doing. Although you would imagine the dicussion with the users of the system would uncover this information
it is surprising just how often maanagement’s ideas of what is happing is diffrent to that of the users of the system.”