Re: Defining a system purpose

[WyoCheek@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/99 9:39:48 PM Mountain Standard Time,
mtribus@hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net writes:

<< Perhaps I should have been clearer in my intentions by saying
 	that we cannot tell the STATED aim of an enterprise by what it
 	does.  We can tell what the UNSTATED AIM is by what it does.
 	However, when the aim is unstated, I believe that we shall find
 	all sorts of contradictory behaviours and will not be able to
 	state, in an unambiguous way, what the TRUE AIM is. In fact, in
 	enterprises where there is a distinction between what is said to
 	be the aim and what transpires, there may be no true aim, just
 	as Deming has often said about there being no true value.
 	I'm sorry now that I was not clearer as to my interpretation.
  >>

An aim is a value judgement, not a theorem--Deming GM 1991 speech
In the same speech, a goal to Deming is the same word 'aim' 
But it is the way people use the word "goal'  to him that was (is) the
problem. An aim or goal without a method-just do it!- is the same... 

Values can be expressed or not, but in either case variation there will always
be... in values at any time, after all we have tried to do our
best...imperfect as we all are

SCheek, DDS

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