Proact vs Feedforward - What's the difference?
proact | feedforward | Synonyms |
To take action in advance of an expected event
* {{quote-book, 1979, Ichak Adizes, How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis
, passage=An (E)-style manager, on the other hand, will proact . He will try to imagine where the ball is going to land and go there and get ready to hit it. }}
(sometimes countable) An anticipatory response to expected changes in the environment of a system
*{{quote-book, 1991, Christopher Hodgkinson, Educational Leadership: The Moral Art
, passage=The continuum is dynamic through the action of modulating feedbacks and feedforwards .}}
(nonstandard) To respond in advance
*{{quote-book, 2002, David Beckett & Paul J. Hager, Life, Work and Learning
, passage=Contingency is handled by, for example, managers and nurses, through feedforwarding , that is, by acting anticipatively, and thereby raising the prospect of modifying not just the practical means toward an end, but of modifying the end itself.}}
Feedforward is a synonym of proact.
As verbs the difference between proact and feedforward
is that proact is to take action in advance of an expected event while feedforward is to respond in advance.As a noun feedforward is
an anticipatory response to expected changes in the environment of a system.proact
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* anticipate * feedforwardAntonyms
* reactDerived terms
* proactorAnagrams
*feedforward
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*feed-forward *feed forward (verb only)Noun
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