CATWOE
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 369 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
- “A mnemonic of the six crucial characteristics which should be included in a well-formulated root definition ” (in Soft System Dynamics Methodology) (R. RODRIGUEZ ULLOA, 1999).
The six crucial characteristics are:
Actor: A person who carries out one or more of the activities of the system.
Customer: A beneficiary or victim of the system's activity .
Environmental constraints : The external impositions which the system takes as given.
Owner: The individual who find himself in the problem situation and could modify or destroy the system.
Transformation process: The core transformation process in a human activity system , which can be expressed as the conversion of some input into some output .
Weltanschauung: The (unquestioned) image or model of the world which makes this particular human activity system (with its particular transformation process) a meaningful one to consider.
The CATWOE characteristics were originally introduced by P. CHECKLAND