PDCA+v2.0
A structural framework for how management-system disciplines align through a shared conjunction.
Every management-system standard an organisation runs describes its own Plan–Do–Check–Act cycle. Each is internally coherent. None of them specifies how its cycle relates to the others.
In practice, this means several siloed cycles, with the alignment between them reconstructed by hand — typically by a GRC team holding the whole picture in their heads. The cost is real and recurring: duplicated work, gaps at the seams between management systems, and a learning loop that closes within each silo but not across them.
Read & review
The full
treatment
The complete v2.0 paper. Seven chapters covering the strand conjunction, how disciplines bind to the framework, a worked example of a finding moving through the structure, and the relation to existing standards.
An introduction
for GRC
A seventeen-slide companion deck. Opens with a typical Tuesday-morning incident, walks through the historical drift of PDCA, then to the reframe: activities don't belong to the standards — they belong to the joining.
The compass
The whitepaper is the framework. The four bearings — strategic, cybernetics, technical, regimes — are how the framework becomes legible from different starting points. None is preferred; each enters the same territory from a different direction.
The companion at centre points outward. The bearings stand on their own. Start where your work begins.
Your destination
starts here
The pathfinder. The compass itself, made legible — how the four bearings connect, which one to start with, and how the supporting material relates to the framework.
Open the companionStrategic & business
Written for senior management, boards, audit and risk committees, strategy leadership, and those who prepare board materials.
Cybernetics
Written for cyberneticists, systems thinkers, organisational theorists, and practitioners interested in the framework's intellectual provenance.
Technical operationalisation
Written for technical architects, GRC technology leads, enterprise architects, technically-oriented CISOs, and developers building substrate-based systems.
Regime application
Written for risk and compliance professionals, GRC managers, regulatory affairs leaders, and supply-chain compliance practitioners.
Each leg is complete on its own terms. A reader who engages with one bearing substantively will understand the framework from that direction without needing the others. A reader who engages with all four will see the framework from four directions simultaneously — which produces a deeper understanding than any single bearing can offer.