I am a keen Formula 1 motor racing fan and it seems to me to provide a
good example about how to manage in a productive way the relationship
between a system and its parts.
When the driver of the car (a system - the driver and the car) identifies
a need for improving the performance of the car by looking at a part of
it, say the suspension, he will suggest that the engineers look at the
suspension. They will take the car apart and work on the suspension and,
possibly, related parts. They will 'improve' the suspension, but until the
car is reassembled, and tested by the driver on the track, no one will
know whether the work on the part will have contributed to an improvement
to the system.
Martin
--Martin Raff VISTA Consulting - for a better future martin@vistaraff.win-uk.net phone and fax: +44-1789 840418
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