RS Glossary
Actor
An actor is a person, role, group, organization, or system that participates in or influences a process.
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Remember it this wayActors are the who—or what—behind each step.
In plain language
An actor is anyone or anything that takes part in the work or influences a step or decision. In a process map, actors are usually named by their role, such as customer, dispatcher, technician, or approver.
Why it matters
Friction often appears when work, information, responsibility, or decisions move between actors.
Role-based language keeps the map focused on the work system instead of blaming specific people.
Example
In a service request workflow, actors may include the customer, office manager, dispatcher, technician, owner, and automated system that sends email and text alerts.
Common misconception
Actors are not always individual people. A team, organization, vendor, or system can also be an actor when it performs work or influences a step or decision.
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The requested Process Map vocabulary candidate was confirmed in the unified catalog and remains related in the Actor proposal.
The existing Friction draft and Actor proposal now identify each other as related terms.
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Radar reviewed the current Actor definition against the glossary section rubric.
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Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
Radar must rereview the complete actor term after an accepted text change.
plain-language-explanation approved by a human reviewer.
plain-language-explanation approved wording became the current section text.
All section gates are approved; content version 5 is now a fully approved term.
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