Operating Channels
(Process channels for the Organization)
The Operation Channels consist in the Activities that process values.
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> Activities
CONTEXT
Activities may be:
- unique in the business or widely used,
- specific to the organization or shared,
- managed by the organization or by a tier,
- easilly substitutable or not,
- representing a small or large part of the used value (Supplies and Resources),
- representing a small or large part of the created value (Products, Revenues, Supplies and Resources),
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CONTENT
Activities may be related to:
- a human activity, an machine activity, or both,
- production, service, maintenance...,
- product fabrication, control, delivery…,
- marketing, communication...,
- resource design, development, fabrication, improvement, delivery, installation, protection, preservation…,
- supply acquisition, reception, control…,
- sales, payment…,
- accounting,
- management,
- ...
CONCEPT
Activities may be:
- trigered by a channel, another activity, an external event, an internal threshold, an external threshold,
- specific to one outcome, or common to several types of outcomes,
- specific to a Business Function, or shared by several Business Functions,
- associated with other activities or not,
- associated with a transaction or not,
- share supplies with other activities,
- share resources with other activities,
- trigered once or several times per outcome,
- trigered by the organization, by a tier or by a tier party,
- souce of transaction channel trigering or not,
- souce of activities or not,
- requiring a lead time to be trigered or not,
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