Performance By Design: The Systematic Selection, Design, and Development of Performance Technologies that Produce Useful Results

Glossary of Terms

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This glossary includes definitions already provided. This is a com-

plete summary of important terms and concepts.

System, systems, systematic, and systemic: related but not the

same

system approach: Begins with the sum total of parts working inde-

pendently and together to achieve a useful set of results at the

societal level, adding value for all internal and external part-

ners. We best think of it as the large whole and we can show it

thus:

systems approach: Begins with the parts of a system—subsys-

tems—that make up the “system.” We can show it thus:

It should be noted here that the “system” is made up of smaller ...