Table of Contents
Search the Keywords & Search Queries column for a difficulty, subject, or result you recognize. Each row links to the full pattern. The Readme offers selected starting examples; use this complete index for other working questions.
OCE.* is this framework’s PatternID namespace. Numbers are stable addresses; the Parts give reader order and do not prescribe Work order.
Public units
| Unit | Reader use |
|---|---|
| Organization Change Engineering Principles Framework Readme | Follow connected methods through arrangement design, consequences, coordinated changes and continuing practice. |
| Citation | Cite the framework or one pattern with its author, title, release date, and publication address. |
| Preface | Distinguish actual arrangements from proposed ones and choose the structures relevant to the decision. |
| Cross-Pattern Application | Work through PumpWorks, a hospital, a member-governed association, and OCE practice across practitioners. |
| Framework Boundary and Refresh | Find scope limits, dependencies, source use, related practices, and refresh conditions. |
Part I - Frame the Change and Compare Organization Concepts
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OCE.1 - Identify the Changed Organization and Intended Contribution | Eternal alpha | Keywords: change focus, organization boundary, outside contribution. Question: Which organization are we changing, and what contribution should guide the change? | FPF A.1.SCR, A.1.CSD, A.15.6 |
| 2 | OCE.2 - Recover Current Organization Work and Arrangement | Eternal alpha | Keywords: current organization, actual Work, formal and informal arrangements. Question: How does the organization get work done, and which relations support or obstruct it? | OCE.1; FPF A.22, A.2.1, A.13, A.15.1 |
| 3 | OCE.3 - Generate and Compare Organization Concepts | Eternal alpha | Keywords: organization concepts, alternatives, exploration. Question: Which materially different organization concepts are worth comparing? | OCE.1, OCE.2; FPF A.22, C.17, conditional C.18, C.11 |
Part II - Design Organization Relations and Work Arrangements
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | OCE.4 - Design an Organization’s Contribution Architecture | Eternal alpha | Keywords: contribution architecture, specialization, boundary crossings. Question: How should contributions be distributed and connected across specialization boundaries? | OCE.1-OCE.3; FPF A.22, C.30, C.32.PAD |
| 5 | OCE.5 - Define Organization Positions | Eternal alpha | Keywords: institutional position, vacancy, continuity. Question: Is a stable organization position needed, and what establishes its identity? | OCE.1; conditional OCE.4; FPF A.2.1, A.6.REL |
| 6 | OCE.6 - Establish Holder Assignments and Enabling Relations for Organization Change | Eternal alpha | Keywords: assignment, holder, authority, access, responsibility. Question: Who is assigned to contribute, with what authority and access, and which enabling relations are missing? | OCE.4; conditional OCE.5; FPF A.2.1, A.2.2, A.6.REL |
| 7 | OCE.7 - Coordinate Product-or-Service and Organization Architecture Decisions | Eternal alpha | Keywords: product and organization architecture, Conway, alignment, mismatch. Question: How should the two architecture decisions constrain one another, including an intentional mismatch? | OCE.3, OCE.4; FPF C.30, C.32.CONWAY, C.32.PAD |
| 8 | OCE.8 - Compare Human, AI, Robotic, and Provider Arrangements for the Same Organizational Work Result | Eternal alpha | Keywords: train, hire, provider, AI, robot, hybrid, whole work arrangement. Question: Which complete arrangement enables participants to obtain the same bounded result? | OCE.1-OCE.3; FPF A.15.8, A.2.2, E.23.CDI, C.38, C.11 |
Part III - Realize Change While Work Continues
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | OCE.9 - Realize a Bounded Organization-Capability Increment | Eternal alpha | Keywords: capability increment, representative work, integration, exception return. Question: How can the organization obtain the selected contribution beyond an isolated demonstration? | OCE.4/OCE.8 decision; OCE.6; qualified integration, learning and service results |
| 10 | OCE.10 - Choose a Response to Participation or Working Culture Difficulties in the Target Organization | Eternal alpha | Keywords: participation, resistance, working culture, intervention. Question: Why is a needed contribution not occurring, and what response is warranted by the available evidence? | OCE.6; applicable HCD.1/HCD.3/HCD.4 or direct professional results; C.36; conditional C.28 |
| 11 | OCE.11 - Coordinate Organization-Change Work with Continuing Service | Eternal alpha | Keywords: continuing service, capacity, dual operation, recovery, hand-back. Question: How can change work overlap with service without breaching its protected conditions? | ME.6; applicable OPS admission, resource and service results; conditional OPS.11.1/OPS.19, OCE.8/OCE.16; direct protection results |
| 12 | OCE.12 - Distribute Leadership Contributions in Organization Change | Stable | Keywords: leadership, briefing, feedback, mutual assistance, continuity. Question: Which leadership contribution is missing from the next work episode, and how can it continue? | Qualified leadership and learning Methods; OCE.6; conditional OCE.10/OCE.11; applicable HCD results |
Part IV - Observe Consequences and Revise the Organization
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | OCE.13 - Observe and Compare Organization-Change Consequences | Eternal alpha | Keywords: consequences, observation, comparison, gains, losses, causal limits. Question: What changed, for whom, and which comparison can change the next organization decision? | Qualified observation and measurement results; FPF C.16, A.10; C.28 when causal reliance is needed |
| 14 | OCE.14 - Decide Whether and How to Revise the Organization from Qualified Results | Eternal alpha | Keywords: organization revision, retention, repair, reversal, authority. Question: Should the challenged organization relation be retained or changed, and under whose authority? | OCE.13 or a current direct result; actual authority; FPF C.11; conditional OCE.3-OCE.12/OCE.16 |
Part V - Sustain Methods, Cross-Change Coordination, and OCE Practice
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | OCE.15 - Choose, Develop, or Refresh Organization-Change Methods | Eternal alpha | Keywords: Method repertoire, candidate Method, local adaptation, refresh. Question: Which existing Method or source contribution serves this use, and what repertoire repair or candidate construction is needed? | Method Engineering Principles Framework ME.1-ME.16 as applicable; FPF A.3.1, A.10 |
| 16 | OCE.16 - Reconcile Simultaneous Organization-Change Work | Eternal alpha | Keywords: simultaneous changes, dependency, support retirement, direct return. Question: Does another separately managed change still need the condition we propose to alter? | ME.6; applicable OCE, OPS.1-OPS.7, A.15, C.32.MWA, and direct domain results |
| 17 | OCE.17 - Continue and Renew Organization-Change Engineering Practice | Eternal alpha | Keywords: OCE practice, practitioner population, continuation, renewal. Question: Which practices continue across practitioners, and what makes them easier or harder to use? | FPF C.36; actual OCE cases; OCE.15/Method Engineering for Method repair; applicable HCD and direct conditions |