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The OSSAD Methodology aims at providing a means for conducting office support systems analysis and design projects. The Methodology includes: data collection instruments and procedures, means to model both organizational and technical support systems, methods to analyze the present situation and proposed alternatives, ways of generating such alternatives, the conversion of a chosen alternative to technical and organizational specifications, issues of implementation and how they can be handled, and the conduct of periodic post implementation “audits” to ensure that the system is accomplishing its objectives. The approach chosen for the development of the Methodology included five applications. While the Methodology is already exploited and sold more elaborated data collection instruments and software tools (based on OSSAD’s modeling techniques) would represent an essential improvement of the Methodology and its market potential.
Further contact persons: G. de Petra, IPACRI, Via a Rava 124, I-00142 Roma - V. De Antonellis, Universita di Milano, Dip. di Scienze Dell’ Informazione, Via Moretto da Brescia 9, I-20133 Milano
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Beslmüller, E., Conrath, D.W. (1989). The Ossad Methodology. In: Esprit ’89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1063-8_63
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