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-|style="padding: 10px" | '''[C] The Customer'''
+|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 out 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!
+|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'''!
 |-
-|style="padding: 10px" |'''[A] The Actors'''
+|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.
 |-
-|style="padding: 10px" |'''[T] The Transformation'''
+|style="font-size:200%;padding: 10px" |'''T'''
-|The purposeful activity expressed as a transformation of input to output.
+|style="padding: 10px" |'''The Transformation'''
+|The purposeful activity is expressed as a transformation of '''Input to Output'''.
 |-
-|style="padding: 10px" |'''[W] Weltanschauung'''
+|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.
 |-
-|style="padding: 10px" |'''[O] Owner'''
+|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.
 |-
-|style="padding: 10px" |'''[E] Environmental Constraints'''
+|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.
 |}
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 ==References==
 * 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]]