Expanding Thorpe's trinity to five (strategy, tactics, logistics, intelligence, communications), Eccles developed a conceptual framework that envisaged logistics as the military element in the nation's economy and the economic element in its military operations that is, as a continuous bridge or chain of interdependent activities linking combat forces with their roots in the national economy.
Laboratory-based experimentation, while offering a high level of experimental rigor and control, generally cannot fully replicate the complex chain of interdependent processes that influence the behaviour of sociotechnical systems.
Our analysis relies on a chain of (sometimes interdependent) data that can be difficult to accurately determine.
Product termination requires the adjustment of a range of interdependent activities such as product road maps, factory schedules, and supply chains.
As suggested above, in an IoT world device purchases are not made in a vacuum, but instead could become an interdependent chain of decisions where consumers start looking at boxes to see if their device is part of a broader system.
This assumption, based like the others on the model of pharmaceutical research, is a poor fit for complex interventions, the effects of which are experienced by patients as part of longer chain of more or less interdependent effects – what we conceptualise as 'process' or 'change'change
According to Porter (1990, page 41), firms' activities can be broken down into a sequence of activities called a value chain, 'an interdependent system or network of activities connected by linkages'.
A value chain can be regarded as a system of interdependent activities within an organization, including primary and supportive activities, which collectively generate value for the organization [ 33].
All versions of Microsoft Windows have huge dependency chains, and what is rightly called "Windows" is a dizzying amalgamation of interdependent pieces of software, none of which can do much on their own.
Outstanding healthcare design requires a delicate balance of interdependent characteristics.
Instead, there is a self-organizing system composed of interdependent actors and institutions.
