OPS.11:1 - Problem frame

An operation depends on several actual structures. Its resource participation, material transformation, case and commitment relations, information production/use, financial settlement and decisions may be described in different views. Those structures overlap through particular subjects and relations; the views need not be isomorphic.

Here the Method governs coordination of an operating change across the selected structures. It does not make their diagrams into the structures, reduce them to one “flow,” or give one coordinator authority over every participating decision.