GOAL-ORIENTED

A system, person, or organization that tends to achieve a goal and demonstrate it in subsequent actions.
'Goal-oriented' or goal-driven/goal-directed/purposive is a property of systems which are able to think/reason/inference using symbols.
To be ''goal-oriented'' is the concept which is included in the ontologies of systemics, cognitive science and engineering.
In the case of the specification or identification of complex engineering system, the goal-oriented modelling is essential. For example, the TOGA meta-theory integrates top-down and object-based ontology with a formal goal-oriented approach. Two basic classes of goals are distinguished, the engineering ''design-goal'', and the cognitive ''intervention-goal''. The primary relates to all designed systems, and, in the case of a human organization, is called ''foundation-goal''.
For both mentioned goals, the goal-oriented modelling works as a filter which enables to recognize important for the modeller properties of his/her domain of activity/interest.

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Examples

★ In 'engineering', an autonomous device can be goal-oriented. (A robotic car that drives from point A to point B, for example.)

★ In 'cognitive science', in the case of a sub-symbolic reasoning the concept ''goal'' is not "visible"/perceived neither for the reasoning system nor for its observer.

★ In 'psychology, socio-cognitive' research and Artificial intelligence, human rational behaviour is also goal-oriented.

★ In 'organization' sciences, the identification of an intervention goal of an individual and his/her goal-oriented behaviour, is more complex because, in real situation:

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★ every human usually has more than one goal,

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★ declared goal can be not congruent with his/her behavior,

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★ organization goals can not be the goal of its employers.

See also

★ action

★ systemics

★ cognitive science

★ reasoning

★ system thinking

★ system design

★ conceptual design

★ software engineering

★ management