Talk:Systems analysis

message: * Systems analysis for computing?  Should this article be 'disambiguated' from computer system design?  --Richard@lbrc.org 17:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguated 

message: A Systems Analyst does Systems Analysis but Systems Analysis covers far more ground that the Systems Analyst implies.
One typically would NOT call in a Systems Analyst (as commonly used today) to determine the operational parameters for a manufacturing plant or process. But a practitioner of Systems Analysis would commonly be called upon to do so; particularly if they specialized in manufacturing systems.
Systems Analyst is also close to Business Analyst but we wouldn't desire to merge them also. Yet both perform Systems Analysis within their respective fields, business & computer systems.
Therefore I would NOT want these two separate pages to be merged into one.
Wpociengel 15:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systems Analysis is a superset of Systems Analyst 

message: In Greek it's not "loosen up" but more like "break down" [Check here]
Apomyzitis (talk) 14:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Analysis 

message: I got to this page via Alexander Bogdanov, where (as of 12:04, 1 April 2008) it says:
Bogdanov's innovative work on comparative study of economic and military power of European nations, written in 1912-1913, was the first interdisciplinary work ever on systems analysis, which he later merged with tectonics. In his work Bogdanov introduced modern principles of systems theory and systems analysis. However, his works on systems analysis were not translated at the time of his life, and were not known outside Russia for many years.
No mention of him here, though.  Either his status in the history of Systems Analysis is overstated there, or it deserves some mention here. --Davecampbell (talk) 21:41, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the work of Alexander Bogdanov is overstated. There are some fanatic Wikipedia writers, who pushed his name in the systems theory article allready some time ago. -- Mdd (talk) 22:01, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I have questioned that statement in the Alexander Bogdanov -- Mdd (talk) 22:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander Bogdanov 

message: It is 'the analysis of systems', yes?  Whose analysis?  The systems' analysis.  So we put an apostrophe after the 's'.  Plural systems, and they take the possesive; it's not that hard to get right.  Or am I missing some jargon/industry-defined/other-reason-to-abuse-English reason that this is spelt "systems analysis"?  (Oh, and I hope everyone gets the tone of friendliness with which I post this, because I'm really not trying to be a bore!)  — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 07:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a title of a field of engineering. With titles (as with news headlines, etc.) one is allowed the option of simplifying pretty much any way one wants. I.e., if I write "SysAn", it's not a standard abbreviation, but it will be understood, anyhow. Piano non troppo (talk) 00:18, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs an apostrophe ("Systems' analysis") 

message: Sentences such as "an explicit formal inquiry carried out to help someone, referred to as the decision maker, identify a better course of action and make a better decision than he might have otherwise made" highlight why this article needs expert attention. That definition could apply equally to a psychological assessment, a job review, or an after-game football analysis.
The article contradicts itself -- while making hyperbolic and uncited assertions -- it says both that systems analysis is often prior to automation, but also that analysts "often modify, expand or document existing systems".
The article needs a broad perspective, historical, academic, pragmatic, and not to be founded on personal off-the-cuff statements and the work of a single author (Ritchey). Piano non troppo (talk) 00:55, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Expert attention for rewrite

message: I'm I bit lost with what is being described here. Is this not just system engineering? It sounds very similar, just not applied to an engineering project application (e.g. requirements analysis etc.) Looking at the Soviet Space Programme since '57 they say that they were using 'Systems Analysis' the whole time, which is what we call now Systems Engineering. Many of the tools look the same (requirements leading to design down-select) as is the scope of the project management activity, life cycle management, etc.
If that is the case then either there should be some merging or linking between these two topics?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.110.173 (talk) 19:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systems Analysis vs Systems Engineering 

message: Surprised not to see RAND corporation mentioned in the article...2A00:23C7:60A8:8B01:F4EA:AC52:B50E:4C4 (talk) 16:18, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: RAND corporation