Re: Do what?!?

[Myron Tribus <mtribus@earthlink.net>]

>SCheek wrote:
>just like myself when once I tried to get a definition for what a process is
>verses a system?


Here is a simple way to make the distinction:

A "system" describes a collection of nouns
A "process" describes a collection of verbs

>A system may be physical  as, for example, an automobile engine or 
>it may be purely conceptual, as for example Deming's system of 
>profound knowledge.

Associated with a system there may be many processes.  Processes are 
the activities whereby systems get things done.

Does this help?

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