Suppose you wish to reduce resource consumption in an organization. Which of the following statements are valid flow-management practices or examples? An early step in flow management is to identify the macro flows that flow through the system you are improving, and understand how they are changing, and how those changes affect your system. Build a deployment flow diagram to understand how different stakeholder groups interact in the system. Examine issues at the interfaces between functions and departments, especially if the organization engages a 3G management system. Identify major decisions within the flows and the impact of those decisions on the flows. Identify who is involved in key decisions and who could be involved with those decisions. An example of an important process might be a marketing department, a production department, or an accounting department. Closed-loop approaches are generally preferred to open-loop approaches. Closed-loop approaches are more common that open loop approaches. Generally, flow management is focused primarily on the flows of materials, water and energy, and does not examine the flows of activities that create value.