The product of this phase
are a statements of the institute's requirements and priorities which form the
information system's needs and clear functional definition of the institute structure.
This results from the analysis of the series of senior management interviews which are conducted according to the
predefined format. The analysis goes through the stages of functional objectives,critical success factors, control information and other quantitative means for determining the successful achievement of critical success factors leading to a specific information needs.
Further analysis of this information needs can lead to an identification of the information handling processes, feeder processes and the underlying data which is needed to provide the information needs.