Organization as a SoS

ISO 9000:2015: organization: person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.

The Organization is a Human Activity System and is an essential system element of an Enterprise. The following picture positions the organization within the Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS).

The Organization is a fractal concept. The term organization can represent:

• The Whole Organization comprising many smaller organizations
• A single element of the organization structure (typically referred to as a team)

In the book, The Puritan Gift, by Kenneth and William Hopper, they have identified 25 underlying principles of good management practice. Principle 1 is the following:

• "All successful organizations, however simple, consist of systems within a system."

In this way, the Organization as a whole is a system and so are each of the teams within the Organization.

The Organization System Description can be found below

The Organization consists of a number of system elements. These system elements are:

• Capabilities
• Structure
• Plans
• Measurements
• Technology Systems

In addition to the above system elements, the following PDFs provide more detail on the various elements: