Reading the Governance Chain

How to locate your organization's weakest link in the doctrine chain.

This tutorial walks through each link in the governance chain and offers a small set of diagnostic questions for locating where intent stops reaching execution in your organization.

Doctrine diagram

The Operational Governance chain

Intent only becomes durable capability when governance, execution and memory are treated as one continuous chain.

01Business IntentWhat the organization has decided to become.

02GovernanceThe layer that translates intent into accountable execution.

03Operational ExecutionServices, assets and decisions delivered in daily work.

04Organizational MemoryThe retained reasoning behind what was done and why.

05ContinuityCapability that survives people, tools and priorities.

Break any link and the organization keeps executing while quietly losing the ability to govern what it executes.

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