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Chaord

A chaord is "any self–organizing, adaptive, non-linear, complex system, whether physical, biological, or social, the behaviour of which [harmoniously] exhibits characteristics of both order and chaos or, loosely translated to business terminology, cooperation and competition."

Chaordic

An adjective used to denote an entity with the properties of a chaord, such as a chaordic organization.

Requirements

Requirements are things that are wanted or needed. They may define something that is necessary for something else to happen or be accomplished. In the specification of a system they tend to define the collection of elements and conditions that are necessary, or desirable, for the system to achieve a desired state: become whole, be functional, become viable.

System

A system is a concept describing a coherently organized arrangement of related elements with emergent properties not found in any subset of those elements and which collectively is defined by its function or purpose in a larger system of which it is a part.

Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking (ST) is an approach to problem solving that views the elements under consideration as interrelated systems rather than as discrete entities.

Viewpoint

In perspective drawing the viewpoint defines the position of the observer of the scene. It is the position from which the eyes of the observer view (see) the subject, and thus defines what is seen and what is hidden from observation. Generically, a viewpoint defines a subjective observation of an element made by an observer which represents the view (perspective) of that observer, but which may not uncover the whole of the truth or characteristics of the element being observed.

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