Abstract
Some of the perennial difficulties experienced in analysing situations in an organisation include: identifying and learning about the existing sub-systems and problems, and recording these ideas in a form that is understood by all the people involved. These concerns are aggravated when considering large and complex industrial, commercial and public service systems. Trying to find out about the situation and gathering information from everyone involved is usually difficult, especially since individuals may have different opinions of what is causing the problems, and their own perception of the role they play in the organisation.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Balin, S. C., 1989, An object oriented requirements specification method, Communications of the ACM, 32:5.
Beer, S. A., 1985, “Diagnosing the System for Organisations”, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
Brown, G. S., 1969, “Laws of Form”, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London.
Checkland, P.B., 1981, “Systems Thinking, Systems Practice”, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
Coad, P., and Yourdon, E., 1991, “Object-Oriented Analysis,” Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Coad, P., and Yourdon, E., 1991, “Object-Oriented Design”, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
De Marco, T., 1978, “Structured Analysis and System Specification”, Yourdon Press, New York.
Dilthey, W., 1976, “Selected Writings”, H. P. Rickman, ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Earl, M.J., 1989, Management Strategics for Information Technology, Prentice-Hall, London.
Gane, C., and Sarson, T., 1979, “Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques”, Prentice-Hall, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Harrisons Clyde Ltd., 1991, Report of consultancy project under the auspices of the Enterprise Initiative, Department of Trade and Industry. M. Bronte-Stewart, D. McDermid.
McDcrmid, D., 1990, “Software Engineering for Information Systems”, Blackwell, Oxford.
MRCA, 1967–1974, Multi Role Combat Aircraft, British Aerospace Panavia Contract. Open University, 1984, T301 Block 1, Complexity, management and change: applying a systems approach. Introduction Workbook.
Peterson, J. L., 1981, “Petri-Net Theory and the Modelling of Systems”, Prentice-Hall, London.
Quin, A. J., 1993, Cybernetics in management, in: “Systems Science: Addressing Global Issues”, F. A. Stowell, D. West, J. G. Howell, eds., Plenum. New York.
Quin, A. J., and Bronte-Stewart, M., 1994, System pictures: a method for capturing clients’ views, Systemist, 16:4.
Renfrew District Council, 1990, Consultancy report on the proposal for an Information System for the Building and Works Department of Renfrew District Council, R. Frew, M. Bronte-Stewart, and D. McDermid.
Ross, D., and Schoman, K., 1977, Structured analysis for requirements definition, IEEE Transactions on software engineering, 3:1.
Stowell, F. A., West, D., Smith, S. A. and Begg, C. E., 1995, Decision-making in mental health care: towards a technology based decision support aid, in: “Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice”, K. Ellis, A. Gregory, B. Mears-Young and G. Ragsdell, eds., Plenum, New York.
Viekers, G., 1965, “The Art of Judgement”, Chapman and Hall, London.
von Bertalanffy, L., 1968, “General Systems Theory”, Braziller, New York.
Waring, A., 1989, “Systems Methods For Managers: A Practical Guide”, Blackwell, Oxford.
West. D. 1991, “Towards a subjective knowledge elicitation methodology for the development of expert systems”. Unpublished PhD thesis. Portsmouth Polytechnic.
Wynn, E. W., 1989, Spencer Brown Logic: The prepositional calculus through metalogic, Systemist, 12:1.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1995 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Quin, A.J., Bronte-Stewart, M. (1995). System Pictures. In: Ellis, K., Gregory, A., Mears-Young, B.R., Ragsdell, G. (eds) Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9883-8_50
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9883-8_50
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-9885-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-4757-9883-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive