Consume / Produce

In the business environment, we’re either consuming or producing.  In fact, in our lives in general, we are either consuming or producing, every day, all the time. 

The food we consume was produced by someone else.  Watching TV or Netflix is consuming the creative production of someone else.  That also consumes electricity, which was produced elsewhere.  An engineering design we produce is consumed by the manufacturer, who then produces something for the user to consume. 

Also important is that the producer (usually) makes money to produce the thing, and the consumer (usually) spends it in order to have the thing.