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|style="padding: 10px" | ''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" | '''C''' | ||
|The individual(s) who receive the output from the transformation.<br>In recent times, it has been recognised that the | |style="padding: 10px" | '''The Customer''' | ||
|The individual(s) who receive the output from the transformation.<br>In recent times, it has been recognised that the output of the transformation may be ‘’negative” for some customers and “positive” for others. This has led to a refinement of CATWOE to '''BATWOVE''', where the C is broken into '''Beneficiaries and Victims'''! | |||
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|style="padding: 10px" |''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''A''' | ||
|Those individuals who would DO the activities of the transformation if the system were made real. | |style="padding: 10px" |'''The Actors''' | ||
|Those individuals who would '''DO''' the activities of the transformation if the system were made real. | |||
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|style="padding: 10px" |''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''T''' | ||
|The purposeful activity expressed as a transformation of | |style="padding: 10px" |'''The Transformation''' | ||
|The purposeful activity is expressed as a transformation of '''Input to Output'''. | |||
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|style="padding: 10px" |''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''W''' | ||
|style="padding: 10px" |'''Weltanschauung''' | |||
|It's a German word that literally means “world view”. It is the belief that makes sense of the root definition. | |It's a German word that literally means “world view”. It is the belief that makes sense of the root definition. | ||
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|style="padding: 10px" |''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''O''' | ||
|style="padding: 10px" |'''Owner''' | |||
|The wider system decision maker who is concerned with the performance of the system. | |The wider system decision maker who is concerned with the performance of the system. | ||
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|style="padding: 10px" |''' | |style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''E''' | ||
|style="padding: 10px" |'''Environmental Constraints''' | |||
|The key constraints outside the system boundary that are significant to the system. | |The key constraints outside the system boundary that are significant to the system. | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
* Burge, S. (2015). An overview of the soft systems methodology. System Thinking: Approaches and Methodologies, 1-14. | * Burge, S. (2015). An overview of the soft systems methodology. System Thinking: Approaches and Methodologies, 1-14. | ||
* Smyth, D. S., & Checkland, P. B. (1976). Using a systems approach: the structure of root definitions. Journal of applied systems analysis, 5(1), 75-83. | |||
[[Category:Systems concepts]] | [[Category:Systems concepts]] | ||