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met. This can be also understood from the commonality of goals illustrated in
Fig. 8. In order to meet all shoppers' goals, it is necessary to meet goals C and H.
b) Indirect Order Inclusive Relation: Looking at the sub-goals of managers' goals
in Table 9, we can identify which sub-goals are met.

Fig. 7 Span of goals from manager's viewpoint

Manager

D, F

B, E,
J
C

I H

Staff Shopper

Fig. 8 Commonality and variability of goals

Comparing the sub-goals of goals C and H, which are not met by managers'
goals directly, we can find that all the sub-goals of goal H, that is (1), (2), (5), (9),
and (10), are included in the union of sub-goals of the goals B and E, which are met
by manager. Since all the sub-goals of goal H is met by the sub-goals of goals B and
E, goal H is substantially met by the goals of managers. As a conclusion, only goal
C remains as the additional goal to be met.
Analysis of the Dependency of Goals . Figure 9 illustrates the same system
goal lattice with the highlighting of goals originating from the goal E “Business
Productivity”. The highlight indicates that meeting the goal E requires meeting goals