Glossary

Alignment (corporate). The recurring work used to reconcile plans, meanings, priorities and decisions when shared direction, authority or contracts remain unsettled. Shared understanding remains necessary; standing negotiation around ordinary change is the anti-pattern. See Chapters 2 and 3, and Chapter 5; also Alignment-industrial complex and the proposed advancement loop in Essay: Why Simple Changes Become Programmes.

Alignment-industrial complex. The internal and external economy of roles, meetings, programmes, frameworks and advisory work that makes fragmented authority survivable and can help it persist. No shared intent among participants is implied…