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CATWOE is a mnemonic developed and proposed by Checkland and Smyth (1976) to help ensure that a [[Draft Root Definition]] in the context of a [[Soft Systems Methodology]] application is acceptable. | CATWOE is a mnemonic developed and proposed by Checkland and Smyth (1976) to help ensure that a [[Draft Root Definition]] in the context of a [[Soft Systems Methodology]] application is acceptable. | ||
[A] The Actors | {|class=wikitable | ||
|style="padding: 10px" | '''[C] The Customer''' | |||
[T] The Transformation | |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! | ||
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[W] Weltanschauung | |style="padding: 10px" |'''[A] The Actors''' | ||
|Those individuals who would DO the activities of the transformation if the system were made real. | |||
[O] Owner | |- | ||
|style="padding: 10px" |'''[T] The Transformation''' | |||
[E] Environmental Constraints | |The purposeful activity expressed as a transformation of input to output. | ||
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|style="padding: 10px" |'''[W] Weltanschauung''' | |||
|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" |'''[O] Owner''' | |||
|The wider system decision maker who is concerned with the performance of the system. | |||
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|style="padding: 10px" |'''[E] 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. | |||
[[Category:Systems concepts]] | [[Category:Systems concepts]] | ||