Author : Edward S. Quade
Release : 1966
Genre : Decision making
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Systems Analysis Techniques for Planning-programming-budgeting by : Edward S. Quade

Download or read book Systems Analysis Techniques for Planning-programming-budgeting written by Edward S. Quade. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systems analysis is an analytic study designed to help a decisionmaker identify a preferred choice among possible alternatives. It is characterized by a systematic and rational approach, with assumptions made explicit, objectives and criteria clearly defined, and alternative courses of action compared in the light of their possible consequences. An effort is made to use quantitative methods, but computers are not essential. What is essential is a model that enables expert intuition and judgment to be applied efficiently. The method provides its answer by processes that are accessible to critical examination, capable of duplication by others, and, more or less, readily modified as new information becomes available. And, in contrast to other aids to decisionmaking, which share the same limitations, it extracts everything possible from scientific methods, and therefore its virtues are the virtues of those methods. (Author).