Re: Defination of a system

[Roger Key <phaedo@ntlworld.com>]

Robert Crow wrote

>The parts of the engine are interdependent
>The parts of a system may have no meaning when viewed independently.  They
also have no value independently.

I once had a motorbike that developed an independent conrod.  Having 
taken its independence to heart and trying to exit out of the front 
of the crank cases I had a con rod of no independent value - in fact 
I had an engine of no independent value.  Whilst most of the system 
was still  in the right place and willing to act as part of an 
interdependent whole the con rod and its bid for UDI converted a 
system into scrap.

Now what was that about right sizing, optimising, redundancies etc 
within a work organisation?

R

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