Input: Let me give you some examples before we actually start.
Lets start with ourselves, Human. Our body can be taken as an example as it covers all the components of the system. Let us build some analogies.
Input Functions ( Eyes - Sight , Ears - Sound , Nose - Smell , Touch,etc) These are the typical inputs that our body accepts. We need to analyse this further to understand these inputs to the very minute details. How each input is processed and transfered to our Brain.( Brain - Calculation Center )
We can ask some questions and build some logics. - If we need to build a "Robot" .What will we analyse ?
( Human Robot - Atomated system in ref to a Human ).
Here the inputs play a very significant role. ( Before we can build a processer which is going to process the input data , we need to have a clear understanding of the inputs and the form of input which are to be procesed.
In reference to the above example, let us see how we can analyse the inputs for a system in an organization. ( Sales & Design Processes )
A sales person recieves an inquiry ( Phone, email, document, etc ) and processes the inputs which he has recieved.
Before going to what processing he does let us analyse the inputs.
Every Input recieved contain a specification / intent, we need to filter out the information required for processing and make a list. We will find that the inputs follow a particular pattern and has some common elements which are used in the processing.
In short:
- Filter and list the intent ( specifications ).
- List down the common intent / elements by going through some inputs.
- Decide a form in which the data can be passed to the calculation center.
In the next post we can see, how to build a calculation center and the use of this input in our system.
