Purpose · Integrity · Component
The evidence audit
Recent decisions read backwards to infer the purpose they imply — the enacted purpose, as opposed to the stated one.
The deliverable
What it is
Organisations can hold a purpose sincerely and act against it consistently, without anyone lying. The audit is what makes the difference visible.
The method is deliberately mechanical: take the last twenty significant decisions and ask what purpose would explain them. Whatever emerges is the enacted purpose.
One level in
What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The decisions
The sample of recent significant decisions.
3 attributes: Decision · Date · Commitment
LearnThe inferred purpose
The purpose that would best explain the decisions taken.
2 attributes: Inferred statement · Confidence
LearnThe comparison
Where the stated and enacted purposes agree and where they part.
2 attributes: Divergence · Evidence
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Take the sample before deciding what you expect to find. An audit designed around a hypothesis will confirm it.
The other components in integrity
The external read
What people outside the organisation say it appears to be for — from customers, new joiners and those who have left.
LearnThe gap log
The differences found between stated and enacted purpose, each marked as being closed, tolerated, or not yet decided.
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