In short, the term means “The unity of processes.” Mark Rutkiewicz, inventor of the term, had an epiphany during his morning run. The word builds off William Whewell’s term “consilience” or a “coming together of knowledge” from traditionally separate disciplines in order to achieve new breakthroughs. Mark needed a term to describe how his architecture for medical device business processes results in integration and process re-use—a coming together of the traditionally different, silo-structured aspects within your company.

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