It might help to give us some context for your question. For example, if interested in process in business, then it emerges in the late 19th century and in the second half of the 20th becomes process management, TQM etc. If in science, then it is language substituted for what otherwise we all think of as the scientific method. Even earlier the notions of methods and techniques are embodiments of the idea of process. Hence, my request for context.
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James W. Cortada
Senior Research Fellow
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
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