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A system, person, or organization that tends to achieve a goal and demonstrate it in subsequent actions.
Goal-oriented or goal-driven/goal-directed/purposive is a property of systems which are able to think/reason/inference using symbols.

To be goal-oriented is the concept which is included in the ontologies of systemics, cognitive science and engineering.

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In engineerring, every constructed system, device, instrument is goal-oriented.

In cognitive science, in the case of a sub-symbolic reasoning the concept goal is not "visible"/perceived neither for the reasoning system nor for its observer.

In psychology, socio-cognitive research and Artificial intelligence, human rational behaviour is also goal-oriented.

In organization sciences, the identification of an intervention goal of an individual and his/her goal-oriented behaviour, is more complex because, in real situation:

every human usually has more than one goal,

declared goal can be not congruent with his/her behavior,

organization goals can not be the goal of its employers.

In the case of the specification or identification of complex engineering system, the goal-oriented approach is essential, see for example, the methodology of the TOGA meta-theory, it integrates top-down and object-based ontology with a formal goal-oriented approach.

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