Re: Profound Knowledge--

[WyoCheek@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/31/99 4:13:23 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
ANTON@wsh.state.wy.us writes:

<<  I think of systems in terms of interdependencies.  A system is a set of 
interdependent elements which have an aim.  No single element of that system 
can achieve the aim on its own.   >>

Sure one can think of system as a set of interdependencies but that is only a 
or their relationship to each other. So what are those elements? I know the 
words Deming used to define each as generic categories (people,materials, 
methods, environment, equipment) and that they had no purpose for existence 
without a shared aim. Because they are there to achieve the aim, 
interdependence logically exists or there is no reason one or all are there 
other than waste..management writing checks for better equipment say as the 
answer. Does a system have a theory? If this is true, then what is the Theory 
behind SPKn? Maybe "if I apply it, I will improve my quality"  An idea, just 
a hunch can be a theory--"If I drive home than I will I get home on time?" 
SPKn neither proves or disproves anything, rather it is to help you based 
upon your own education in these areas as well as what else you may wish to 
include. After all he didn't care what you added after these. Sorry but I 
fail to see how using any combination of subject matter knowledge forms a 
system, interdependent or not. But I do see where a system creates a process 
or a process is comprised of a system.  

Standardization or rules is the first step so I ask everyone to research the 
words, system, process amd method in a dictionary. When I did this just to 
see what a group agreed up before printing my dictionary. I found method and 
process virtually the same (process--from proceed as to mean a method and 
method-a procedure or process, how things are done or to be done) while the 
first definition of a system was that it has elements that were 
interdependent with a shared aim. I found this interesting. It did not 
reference any process or series of subject matter as being a system.   

SCheek DDS
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