Synthesizing User Centered and Designer Centered IS Development Approaches Using General Systems Theory

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-121

  Garrity, Edward J ^a,b  

^a CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business process design; General systems theory; IS success measurement; Systems development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035591978     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011457822609     Document Type: Article

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