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Recent popular management literature suggests that when you solve problems you ought to “think outside the box”. You should not get too constrained by the (existing?) problem statement, but think about better ways of restructuring the problem so that it can be more effectively solved. In recent papers describing systems development based on rigorous business requirements, theauthors have sketched a framework for realizing solutions which encourages such feedback from the solution to the problem set. This may be successfully applied to various, even seemingly quitedifferent, businesses — including the business of creating an information management system.
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Kilov, H., Ash, A. (1999). On the Structure of Convincing Specifications. In: Kilov, H., Rumpe, B., Simmonds, I. (eds) Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 523. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5229-1_10
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