Below are defined key elements of analytical methodology that govern and allow for research to progress:
Systems overview
- system
- system scope
- system goal function
- system state
Systems environment
- environment
- higher-level system
- system boundaries
- open / closed system
- interfaces
Systems structure
- element
- connection
- structure
- hierarchy
- composition
- subsystem, cluster
Systems management
- managing system
- goal
- management
- management impact
- feedback
- managed system
Systems operations
- function
- capacity
- potential
- resource
- execution
- output
- performance
Systems evolution
- lifespan
- lifecycle
- evolution path
- progress
- process
- stage
Systems views
- property
- configuration
- probability
- risk
- dimension
- model
- constrains