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Operational Concept Development. A Concept of Operations (ConOps) describes the vision for the operation of a system or system-of-systems. It provides conceptual insight from the userâs perspective, and ultimately is used to derive requirements for supporting services, systems, technologies, tools, and procedures.
Operationalization is thus the process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make it clearly distinguishable, measurable, and understandable in terms of empirical observations. In a wider sense, it refers to the process of specifying the extension of a conceptâdescribing what is and is not an instance of that concept. For example, in medicine, the phenomenon of health might be operationalized by one or more indicators like body mass index or tobacco smoking.