The Feasibility Study

Abstract

Once a preliminary area of application has been established, it may then be subjected to a more rigorous examination in a Feasibility Study. The analyst will, of course, already have formed some ideas about the application from the preliminary planning work. However, the Feasibility Study represents an opportunity to ‘firm up’ knowledge of the system and to form ideas about the scope and costs of possible solutions. In many respects the Feasibility Study is a quick and dirty mini-Systems Analysis with the analyst being concerned with many of the issues and using many of the techniques required in later detailed work and covered in the following chapters of this book.