Re: Operational Definitions: System and Process

[Bob Clements <clementz@kos.net>]

> I'm interested in what other DENizens might say.

I've not been following this thread too closely since I offered Scholtes's
operational definitions. They work for me, so far.
(http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/archive/99.12/msg00117.html)

But I read closely enough to catch the gems:

    Processes also fulfil Ackoff's test for a system,
    namely that they lose their identity when broken up.

Bob.
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