Working vocabulary
Glossary
Definitions are evidence-bearing tools, not neutral containers.
Each term is marked established, jurisdiction-specific, or operational. Cautions keep the boundary of the definition visible.
established
Output
A direct product, service, or deliverable produced by an activity.
Evidence recordestablished
Outcome
A change that follows from outputs and activity for people, institutions, behavior, access, or conditions.
Evidence recordoperational
Primary outcome
The outcome a decision maker declares as the principal test of the system's purpose in this instrument.
Evidence recordoperational
Secondary outcome
An intended or unintended change tracked alongside the declared primary outcome.
Evidence recordoperational
Loss
A reduction in retained material, time, value, function, information, health, or opportunity relative to a declared purpose and boundary.
jurisdiction-specific
Waste
A designation with ordinary, operational, and legal meanings; under EU law it includes substances or objects the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard.
Evidence recordoperational
Co-product
One of multiple intentionally valued outputs produced by the same process in this instrument.
jurisdiction-specific
Byproduct
A secondary output of a process; in the EU legal context, a production residue qualifies as a by-product only when specified conditions are met.
Evidence recordestablished
Efficiency
The relationship between a result achieved and the resources used to achieve it.
Evidence recordestablished
Effectiveness
The extent to which planned activities are realized and planned results are achieved.
Evidence recordoperational
Sufficiency threshold
The declared point at which a result is considered adequate for a purpose, affected party, and time horizon.
operational
Reserve
Capacity, material, time, or capability intentionally held for reliability, uncertainty, repair, or future choice.
Evidence recordoperational
Slack
Uncommitted capacity that can absorb variation, delay, learning, repair, or disruption.
Evidence recordoperational
Redundancy
More than one component, path, or capability capable of supporting a function.
Evidence recordjurisdiction-specific
Repairability
The extent to which a product can be diagnosed, disassembled, repaired, and returned to service with available parts, information, tools, software, skill, time, and cost.
Evidence recordoperational
Option value
Value retained by keeping a future course of action possible, such as repair, reuse, recovery, rollback, or delayed commitment.
established
Externalized cost
A cost or harm arising from an activity that is not fully carried in the private decision, transaction, or selected accounting boundary.
Evidence recordoperational
Accounting visibility
Whether a consequence is included, partially counted, externalized, or unknown in the selected ledger.
Evidence recordoperational
Relational waste
The teaching lens that a remainder's designation depends on purpose, actor, boundary, and time while its observed consequences remain available for inspection.
Evidence recordoperational
Useful life
The period during which an object or service remains sufficient for a declared purpose and affected user under available support and conditions.
Evidence recordoperational
Physical or material lens
Examines matter, energy-bearing equipment, components, mass, condition, toxicity, recovery quality, and physical infrastructure.
Evidence recordoperational
Virtual or informational lens
Examines data, software, access, attention, custody, support, and information service together with the physical infrastructure that enables them.
Evidence recordoperational
Temporal or labor lens
Examines waiting, skilled time, maintenance, care, delay, rework, learning, and whose labor carries a process.
Evidence recordoperational
Economic or distributive lens
Examines prices, retained value, livelihoods, public costs, risk, market access, and how benefits and burdens are distributed.
Evidence recordoperational
Ecological or public-health lens
Examines extraction pressure, emissions, pollution, exposure, ecosystem condition, and health across places and generations.
Evidence record