twining

intertwining.org's
five step systems analysis & design process
5-stepSAD;-)

1. document the existing system . Be wholly truthful. Record the "reality" of the existing system.

2. describe the desired system . Adopt no limitation/ take a "no holds barred" approach. Brainstorm without judgment. This is where you'd say what you'd have if you could have anything your heart desires. Facilitate possibility and innovation.

3. delimit options . . Focus, contemplate. List and group all the possibilities. Give yourself lots of choices and options. Map your choices and options until your obvious choice(s) emerge.

4. implement . Apply energy and resources. Actualize the obvious choice(s). from phase 3.

5. iterate . Start again. Sustain the process.

Methodology and Background:

twining's 5-step SAD ;-) is a thinking process developed by synthesis for use by individuals, organizations, and collaborations. The five steps were derived through taxonomic extraction from the comprehensive interdisciplinary literature about process and models for systems analysis and design.

As a partitive consequence of the culminating experience of my Master of Library and Information Science degree (TWU 1995), and expanded as part of a naturalistic doctoral dissertation about collaboration (twining 1999), twining's 5-step SAD;-) is a diagnostic and prescriptive knowledge management technique used in consultation with education, business, government, and for-, non-, and not-for- profit organizations.

Applications:

twining's5-stepSAD;-) is a "sense making" process taught by intertwining.org in core, elective, and special topics graduate Library and Information Science classes (and related graduate and undergraduate university and college programs) nationwide.
twining's5-stepSAD;-) is a "jump-start" practice exercised by intertwining.org for professional continuing education.
twining's5-stepSAD;-) is a diagnostic and prescriptive organizational knowledge management technique
twining's5-stepSAD;-) an "actionable" platform for public service, and outreach.

twining's5-stepSAD;-) is the intellectual capital of intertwining.org, a virtual consultancy