Don Mikulecky's model (recast in the notation used in this website) of a
business as an example of a real-world application of a relational diagram.
Every yellow box in this diagram has a red-dashed line pointing to it. Therefore it meets the criteria of having every agent that makes things being "made" elsewhere in the system. It does not meet, though, the extra conditions of
rule 1 as defined
elsewhere. There are a number of "self-entailing" boxes. For example in
h:$->h,
h feeds directly back to influence the entailment of more
h.
h: People
c: Capital
r: Raw materials and resources
|
|
p: Products
$: Profit
g: Good will
|
c:r = investment (efficient cause for manufacturing)
c:p = investment (efficient cause for marketing and sales)
h:r = labor, management manufacture or produce the product
h:p = labor, management market the product for profit
h:$ = labor, management manage the profits
h->g = labor, management create good will
r->p = manufacturing and service/information provision
p->$ = marketing and sales
$->g = creation of good will by advertising and marketing
p->g = creation of good will due to reputation of the product
g:p = feedback (good will helping to sell the products)
g:h = feedback (good will helping to build morale and loyalty)
$->c = reinvestment
$->h = rewards
The following is the notation used in the
original diagram by Donald Mikulecky. Here the dashed (hollow filled) arrows indicate "material" causation of what they point to. The solid (filled) arrows indicate "efficient" causation by what they operate on.
"Material cause" indicates the matieral that was used in making something.
"Efficient cause" indicates the agent that did the making.
Created on 05/05/2009 02:06 PM by jprideaux
Updated on 05/18/2009 07:33 PM by jprideaux
|
|
