Interaction Dictionary

In the life cycle interactions we distinguish four lifecycle stages for any worksystem or habitat (action arena) in which multiple actors dwell, live, work and interact. All four of these stages have a situational focus and two of them can also be applied with a contextual focus.

• LC.Operations & Maintenance: in this life-cycle stage, the worksystem or habitat is operating in a business-as-usual manner, actors obtain livelihood services and rewards and invest efforts.
• LC.Evaluation & Monitoring: in this stage, the worksystem is being monitored for achieving a number of outcome and performance targets, for instance economic growth and reduced emissions, reduced crime rates, etc. Each failure to achieve a target gives rise to an alert being sent to specific actors, or being published.
• LC.Collective Portfolio: in this stage, alerts are received and corresponding initiatives to analyse and change the worksystem or habitat are being prepared and executed, typically in order to improve performance and outcomes for the actors.
• LC.System Development: in this stage a specific part or area of the worksystem or action arena is changed or developed.

Development in worksystems is conveniently approached in accordance with the regulative cycle¹: evaluation (of system operations with respect to an instrument), problem definition (selection from a problem mess), analysis and diagnosis, design, and implimentation (followed by evaluation to close the cycle). In the evaluation activity it is assumed that an instrument is available to evaluate the performance and structure of the work system. In the Reference Fab Methodology² a model for systematic target setting on high level performance indicators is used as a reference model (reference fab). This model is then translated into a site-specific reference model with targets for the actual site worksystem. In this translation factor costs, volumes and complexity of technologies are considered, among others.

A continuous monitoring and evaluation focus is implemented to evaluate the performance of the work system. Monitoring and evaluation is goal based, meaning that system performance is constantly compared to predefined goals, for instance as captured in the work system specific reference model. If goals are not met, system performance is unsatisfactory, and the obsolescence flag is raised. The life cycle stage of system development is then entered for the system.

New opportunities, changing business drivers or directives can cause goals to change. Opportunities occur when performance improvement is possible, for example because of new technology, without current performance being unsatisfactory. Changing directives are for example new legislation, or changing customer demands. When goals change, or their change is expected, a performance alert is triggered, which in turn flags the worksystem as obsolete, and urges entering the system development.

Activity in all four stages may happen simultaneously. For an evolving action arena or livelihood.

Where LC.Evaluation and Monitoring and LC.Collective Portfolio are applied with a contextual focus they can enable collaborative processes that yield transformational benefits as pursued by the CRB. For instance, by allowing for a Collective Portfolio, the risks for double and conflicting initiatives can be reduced, and communication towards stakeholders can be aligned, fragmentation reduced.

• LC.Collective Portfolio
• LC.Evaluation & Monitoring
• LC.Operations & Maintenance
• LC.System Development
• Project Execution
  • PE.V1-Articulation
  • PE.V1-Decision
  • PE.V1-Installation
  • PE.V2-Analysis
  • PE.V2-Construction
  • PE.V2-Decision
  • PE.V3-Decision
  • PE.V3-Logical Design
  • PE.V3-Physical Design & Integration
  • PE.V3-Requirements

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