Strategic planning factors: goals, critical success factors, problem area. All identified at business level. Technology independent.

Corporate Planning objectives: Identify whichof the factors in during strategic planning will be built into corporate plan as an action item.

Enterprise model: Use different techniques to graphically convey important relationships identified during planning.

E-R diagram shows how important entities are interrelated and are influenced

Functional Decomposition: Break functional areas (e.g., finance, operations, human resources) into the activities performed so that support systems can be identified.

Planning matrices: Link which entities are associated with which functional activities. Allows system analysts/designers to make sure that all bases are covered when developing a system.