A HERMENEUTIC APPROACH TO ‘INFORMATION ANALYSIS’ FOR INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

Sufen Wang and Junnkang Feng
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Sufen Wang: Glorious Sun School of Business & Management, Donghua University, Shanghai, 200051, China
Junnkang Feng: University of Paisley, High Street Paisley PA1 2BE, UK

Chapter 12 in Challenges in Information Technology Management, 2008, pp 76-82 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractRequirement analysis is an important stages in information systems development (ISD) but is characterized by informality and uncertainty. In this paper, we will look at how well-known information systems methodologies handle it, and identify main problems and their causes. Then we argue that an explicit information analysis stage would be required in order to alleviate these problems, the information that an agent in a domain requires is identified and formulated in this stage. Such a stage would need a mechanism. We describe how hermeneutics might enable us to construct the mechanism whereby information is created and information flow takes place.

Keywords: Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Computing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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