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In the modern systems approach, the concept "system" is used not to refer to things in the world but to a particular way of organising our thoughts about the world.

— Robert L. Flood Creative Problem Solving (1991)

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Quality means meeting customers' (agreed) requirements, formal and informal, at lowest cost, first time every time.

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Positivism : knowledge is hard, real, and capable of being transmitted in a tangible form.

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So far it has been ascertained that a root definition is a core description of purposeful activity taken from a specific point of view.

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