DIFFERENT CONCEPTS OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Abstract

Systems analysis is not only interdisciplinary. It is purposeful complex action in a complex milieu of science and administration. Analysts enter the profession from very disparate fields, indeed more often from the scientific than from the administrative side. Whatever the origin, there are limitations in the practice and the perspective of everyone. One result of the paper is a taxonomy for distinctions in systems analysis methodology. It classifies systems analysis projects as well as parts of such and even longer series of such production. A further result is a description and a comparison of a few more or less special theories of the field, by this taxonomy.