Re: Business Mapping

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Natural Living Systems?  If you think about how people get things done 
together what do we do naturally to get stuff done?  Do the ways we map 
processes or systems of processes show the natural way that people interact 
to make action occur?  I don't think they do.  Most mapping conventions 
depict our processes as flows of things and data.  Even the depictions of the 
tasks that people perform appear as things.  When we interact naturally to 
get stuff done together we don't simply do tasks like machines - we have 
conversations that result in action.  The general topics of our conversations 
for action are our conditions of satisfaction.  The flow diagrams, business 
maps, deployment flowcharts, data flow diagrams, etc., that are used in our 
profession of management are deeply rooted in the machine model - input, 
process, output.  Fine for machines, but not fine for people.