This slide continues the discussion about the first stage in systems development, systems analysis.
Establishing information requirements is an essential part of analysis. A system designed around the wrong set of requirements will either have to be discarded because of poor performance or will need to undergo major modifications. As the text discusses later in the chapter, user involvement is essential for gathering requirements. Why is this so? If user involvement is central to gathering information requirements, why should technical specialists, such as systems analysts, also be involved in this process?