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Originally Posted by dhm2006
Operationalize - is that a word? What does that mean?
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Butterfly gave the definition while I was asleep. In the circles I move in, the word is used to refer to turning an idea, concept, or goal into a set of procedures that can be used to implement or measure it. OmniFocus, for instance, has the goal of keeping track of the projects you're working on and the actions you need to do for them. The development team operationalizes this goal by developing specific procedures for creating actions, assigning them to projects, reorganizing them, changing how the data are represented, etc. One could also see David Allen's GTD as a different way of operationalizing, via lists on paper or a PDA, the same goal.
"Operationalize" is apparently also used in the business world as a fancy synonym for "do," but that's not what I had in mind.