Linkage Map Model

**Pattern Name:** Linkage Map Model

**Introduction:** In the final analysis, processes create products and services.

**Illustration:**

Deming's Business as a System process diagram

**CONTEXT:** Reliable production of goods and services require reliable processes.

**PROBLEM:

**Process steps are often invisible.**

**Forces:**

**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**

**Make all necessary processes visible.**

**Actions:**

Create linkage maps of the entire organization, including linkages (processes) to and from customers and suppliers.

**Consequences:**

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