Generic system

[Richard Danjin <102104.1751@compuserve.com>]

S Cheek wrote:

"Anybody else care to try to define what a generic system is?"

        A "generic system" is an input, conversion process, an output and a
feed back. Each function being independent but mutually related to each
other.  The relatedness brings about the system's structure.

        The Inputs- are either selected or imposed by the larger system
within which the system exists.

        The Outputs - are, as one might expect, selected or unintended.

        The Feed Back- is heuristic, either conscious or imposed.

        The Conversion Process (structure of transformation) - evolves in
nature or is structured (an organization).

        Of course, specifics and examples of all of this "stuff" could fill
volumes (and already have, relevant or not).

Dick Danjin, "Making Things Run Well"