A cybernetic governance framework that advances the definition of enterprise, recognizes enterprises as the adaptive systems they are, and upgrades governance from direction and control to the regulatory architecture through which enterprises sustain their capacity to advance.
Governance is advancement.
Foundation
The IDEA Standard delivers on its foundation through three contributions that are sequential and interdependent. Each builds on the one before it.
A unifying standard that specifies scope and generalized structure, applicable to any purposeful collective endeavor at any scale. A department is an enterprise. A project is an enterprise. The same governance architecture applies recursively at every level.
Enterprises are purposeful, adaptive, self-regulating systems composed of agents with agency. Cybernetics has existed as theory for decades. AI now makes it operationally real — enabling enterprises to be governed as the systems they actually are, for the first time.
Not direction and control alone, but the regulatory architecture through which an enterprise sustains its capacity to advance. Pervasive rather than positional. Embedded within enterprise action, not imposed upon it.
Scope
The IDEA Standard establishes what must be true for an enterprise to remain viable, coherent, and capable of adapting under real conditions. It does not prescribe organizational forms, operational methods, or implementation steps.
Ecosystem
Foreword, Introduction, and architecture overview from Draft 28.
Governance deployment platform. AI-powered instruments for enterprise advancement.
The philosophical foundation. Where the framework's reasoning begins.
Consulting engagement for enterprises ready to govern differently.
Published Work
Six articles establishing the framework's intellectual foundation. Published on LinkedIn.
Article 1 — The transition from project management to enterprise governance
Article 2 — From metaphor to mechanism
Article 3 — Redefining the scope of governance
Article 4 — How enterprises see
Article 5 — What the enterprise is actually pursuing
Article 6 — When the enterprise acts as what it is