Are Outputs and Outcomes the Same? Let's Define and Differentiate Together

Outputs and Outcomes!

Are they the same? If not, how do we define, distinguish, and differentiate?

I read an interesting article which I have attached.

Mail your views here.

MRS

Thank you, Srinivasan, for the interesting post.

What an organization produces (for example, cars) is the output. And what it and society get in return are the outcomes: profit, complaints, litigation, pollution, etc.

Here are a few more sites with good explanations:
- www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/1211372
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(Search on Cite | Search on Google)
- http://www.richmondcvs.org.uk/factsheets/Fundraising/ff1_writing_funding_applications/Section_%204_writing_outcomes_in_funding_applicati ons.doc
- [link removed]

Have a nice day.
Narasimhan

"MRS" asked:
Outputs and Outcomes!
Are they the same?
If not, how do we define, distinguish, and differentiate?
I read an interesting article which I have attached.
Mail your views here.
MRS