| operating System | One actual System whose continuing operation and results are current for the decision. It is not inferred from an organization name, process diagram, product label, software tool, or reporting boundary. |
| continuing result or service | The result, service, or preserved condition the operation must keep supplying to a named receiver under stated conditions. Continuation does not prove value, quality, acceptance, or fulfilment. |
| demand | A request, need, condition, candidate Work claim, arrival, or other input entering the operating decision. Demand is not automatically admitted Work or a commitment. |
| commitment | A promise or obligation with parties, promised result or service, conditions, horizon, authority, and current status. A due date or priority label alone is not a commitment. |
| operating subject | The exact System, item, case subject, material, service relation, account, or other entity whose state or relation can change the operating decision. |
| flow or case unit | A decision-specific counted or tracked unit with an identity rule and receiving use. Treat Work items, cases, physical items, batches, transactions, commitments, and results as different units unless their identity rules and evidence establish that the labels denote the same counted or tracked unit for this use. |
| operating boundary | The included subjects, Work, resources, relations, environments, and time horizon needed for this decision, plus explicit exclusions and specialist returns. |
| control-relevant operating concern | A question in which observation, decision, actuation, supervision, feedback, or unlike rates can change current coordination. It is an entry cue for an FPF control view, not a kind of operation. |
| operating-focus result | The bounded result returned by OPS.1: operating System, continuing result, demand, commitments, subjects and units, boundary, evidence or authority gaps, next pattern, and reopen condition. |