Business Systems in Business Information Management

The following discussion agenda is on Business Systems &  Systems Thinking in Business Information Management (BIM):

1. Hard Systems approach and Soft Systems approach
• Systems lifecycle
• Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology
2. Business Systems
• Hierarchy of systems
• Socio-technical systems
3. Business automation, raltionalization and business process re-engineering
4. Notions of automate, informate and transformate

Reference
FTMS (2006) "Chapter 4: Business Systems and Systems Thinking" Study text: Business Information Managemennt ACCA 3.4. BPP professional education