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Index
Systems Process Model for Integration
(SysPMI) (continued)

identification of objects, 317

recognition and
characterization, 317–318

thread performance improvement, 318

Systems theory. See General systems
theory

T
Taguchi quality, principle of, 339–340

Target value, 300, 371

Team, 15

Technical integration, 171

Technology, 118–119, 371

Testing, 258, 269–271, 371

Black box method of, 146n

as early feedback, 340

for functions, 98

integration, 17

of objects, 269–271

White box method of, 149n

Theory, 241, 371

balance between theory
and principle, 106

frame, 71

framework, 151

general systems theory, 105

reductionist, 219

sociological, 81

theoretical construct, 176

Things, 124n

Thoughts consolidation, 164–167

Time, 371

“To command” process. See

“To direct” process

“To communicate” process, 283

“To control” process, 205, 283

decomposition, 289, 290

“To direct” process, 283

decomposition, 289

“To manage” process, 204–206,
207n, 283, 285

for abstraction, 289

decomposition, 284, 325–334

subfunctions, 146n

“To organize” process, 283

“To plan” process, 89–90, 283

“To team-build” process, 283

Total quality loss, 300

Trait, 34n, 54–55, 56, 371

Transfer of energy, 61

Type 0 interactions, 65, 371–372

Type 1 interactions, 65, 66, 372

Type 2 interactions, 65, 66, 372

U
U.S. Government Accountability
Office (GAO), 222

GAO report, 313n

Underlapping condition, 13

boundary, 14

Unencumbered measures, 243

Unity, 29, 83

as object of knowledge, 30

Parmenides’ notion of, 39n

Use, 372

V

Validation, 278, 372–373
of current uses of product
or service, 123n

as final step, 142, 316

limits of performances, 258

Value, 373

Variables, 242, 373

Variance, 292

Verification, 373

Vignette, 373

W
Want, 372, 52n

White box method, 373, 149n

Whole, 1, 12, 33, 113n, 373, 158–160.
See also Holism
greater than components,
2, 167, 227

integral, 285

integrated, 69, 155–156

integration and, 104

mischievous, 168

objects as part of, 127

Wishful thinking, 222