CATWOE

=CATWOE= CATWOE is a useful mnemonic to find out definitions, goals, or solutions for problem. It was introduced by Peter Checkland in 1990. It is one of the section of SSM (Soft Systems Methodology). He used this CATWOE to describe the human activities and situations so that he could form the root definition well. With the root definition from CATWOE, you can develop the Conceptual Models.


 * Customer / Clients** - Those who benefit by the systems


 * Actors** - Those who do activities of the systems


 * Transformations** - The main process of human activity systems to change input to output


 * Weltanshauung / World View** - The background as 'World View' of the systems


 * Owner** - Those who modify the systems and could stop the systems


 * Environmental (Constraints)** - It is constraints on the system that are outside its scope like natural environment, trends, demands, etc.

References

http://www.bola.biz/research/ssm.html http://www.mycoted.com/CATWOE http://creatingminds.org/tools/catwoe.htm
 * Context Refernces

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 * Photo of Peter Checkland