Chapter 1A Cycle vs. a Continuum
In his article Whole System Architecture: A Model for Building the Lean Organization,
1 my Parsons College classmate Dr. Lawrence M. Miller, president of Management Mediations, suggests that our organizations are composed of two separate but interdependent systems.
The first is a technical system which represents all of our work processes. It is important to establish at this point that no matter what the size of your organization is, everything we do is governed by a process. At the same time, each of our processes is part of a system of some sort. Further, each of the systems requires the same resources (suppliers, inputs, processes, outputs, and end users) which exist in some ...
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