Harold,

Not to argue with the, um, need for learner's needs, and recognizing that my mind today has been in the world of work rather than the world of school, it seems to me that process-based curriculum would (could?) emerge more quickly when the learners are in similar fields of application.

It's a variation on Joe Harless's question, "Communication skills for what?"

Not to say everyone has to work for the same organization, but I'm musing on some sort of relationship between process and application (e.g., critical thinking and evaluating business plans; problem-solving skills and the faceets where an organization meets its customers).

And, I suppose, a kind of meta-process, where you step back from application of the process, and from the process itself, to see how apparently different applications rely on some of the same basic principles.