Enterprise Concept Framework (ECF) Coordinates

Domains (rows: scope of operations)

1. Governance & Existence: The domain that constitutes the enterprise as a bounded, legitimate, persisting entity; the precondition of all other domains.
2. Strategy & Direction: The domain that determines the enterprise's intentional trajectory; positioning, ambition, and resource allocation priorities.
3. Agency & Organization: The domain that manages the enterprise's internal agentive fabric; the constitution, coordination, development, and lifecycle of all agents.
4. Party & Relationship: The domain that manages the enterprise's external social fabric; the identification, establishment, development, and termination of bonds with all external entities.
5. Product & Value: The domain that manages the enterprise's value-bearing propositions; the complete lifecycle of whatever the enterprise creates and makes available for exchange.
6. Enablement & Operations: The domain that manages the enterprise's execution engine and the means that make execution possible; processes, delivery, technology, and physical infrastructure.
7. Finance & Accounting: The domain that manages the enterprise's monetary reality; the planning, allocation, movement, recording, and reporting of money in exchange with the environment.

Stages (columns: value stream stages)

1. Conceive: Naming the need, the opportunity, the policy.
2. Design: Specifying the object, the process, the controls.
3. Build / Acquire: Constructing, provisioning, hiring, or buying.
4. Activate: Deploying, cutting over, launching.
5. Operate: Running, serving, monitoring, maintaining.
6. Improve: Measuring performance, learning from incidents, scoring satisfaction.
7. Retire: Sunsetting, migrating, recovering, or renewing.

The 49 cells