{
  "author": "Adrian Sutherland",
  "edition": "Version 1.0",
  "copyright": "2005–2026 Adrian Sutherland",
  "diagrams": [
    {
      "id": "business-information",
      "title": "Connect information to the decision",
      "summary": "How business decisions and information connect.",
      "kind": "graph",
      "nodes": [
        {
          "id": "purpose",
          "label": "Purpose and outcomes",
          "description": "What the service is for and how improvement could be judged.",
          "x": 40,
          "y": 35
        },
        {
          "id": "capability",
          "label": "Capabilities and value",
          "description": "What must be possible and how value reaches the learner.",
          "x": 340,
          "y": 35
        },
        {
          "id": "work",
          "label": "Processes and roles",
          "description": "The activities, decisions and people responsible for resolution.",
          "x": 640,
          "y": 35
        },
        {
          "id": "change",
          "label": "Change and learning",
          "description": "Accepted choices, checks, observations and reasons to reconsider.",
          "x": 40,
          "y": 310
        },
        {
          "id": "information",
          "label": "Information and rules",
          "description": "Shared meaning, agreement, ownership and constraints.",
          "x": 340,
          "y": 310
        },
        {
          "id": "support",
          "label": "System support",
          "description": "Where systems help the work; a process-only change can come first.",
          "x": 640,
          "y": 310
        }
      ],
      "connections": [
        {
          "from": "purpose",
          "to": "capability",
          "label": "guides priorities"
        },
        {
          "from": "capability",
          "to": "work",
          "label": "realised through"
        },
        {
          "from": "work",
          "to": "information",
          "label": "uses and maintains"
        },
        {
          "from": "information",
          "to": "support",
          "label": "constrains"
        },
        {
          "from": "support",
          "to": "work",
          "label": "supports"
        },
        {
          "from": "change",
          "to": "purpose",
          "label": "tests assumptions"
        },
        {
          "from": "information",
          "to": "change",
          "label": "informs choices"
        }
      ],
      "caption": "New illustration by Adrian Sutherland, version 1.0, September 2026. Relationship arrows do not prescribe a work sequence. © 2005–2026 Adrian Sutherland."
    },
    {
      "id": "business-cycles",
      "title": "Local changes can reopen wider decisions",
      "summary": "How business decisions, delivery and service learning connect.",
      "kind": "graph",
      "process_areas": true,
      "nodes": [
        {
          "id": "visioning",
          "label": "Visioning",
          "description": "Agree the intended learner outcome, service scope and future responsibilities.",
          "x": 20,
          "y": 340
        },
        {
          "id": "transforming",
          "label": "Transforming",
          "description": "Prepare the process-only trial, change the affected work and check the handover.",
          "x": 340,
          "y": 340
        },
        {
          "id": "operating",
          "label": "Operating",
          "description": "Resolve cases under agreed rules and observe ownership gaps or delays.",
          "x": 660,
          "y": 340
        },
        {
          "id": "governing",
          "label": "Governing",
          "description": "Set decision authority and review shared rules, exceptions and trial acceptance.",
          "x": 340,
          "y": 25
        }
      ],
      "connections": [
        {
          "from": "visioning",
          "to": "transforming",
          "label": "direction"
        },
        {
          "from": "transforming",
          "to": "visioning",
          "label": "reconsider"
        },
        {
          "from": "transforming",
          "to": "operating",
          "label": "accepted change"
        },
        {
          "from": "operating",
          "to": "transforming",
          "label": "improvement"
        },
        {
          "from": "governing",
          "to": "visioning",
          "label": "priorities"
        },
        {
          "from": "governing",
          "to": "transforming",
          "label": "change authority"
        },
        {
          "from": "governing",
          "to": "operating",
          "label": "policy"
        },
        {
          "from": "operating",
          "to": "governing",
          "label": "findings"
        }
      ],
      "caption": "Version 1.0 · September 2026 · © 2005–2026 Adrian Sutherland. The arrows show selected exchanges and feedback. Work can repeat within any area or reopen a wider decision. Governing applies to direction, change and operation; the areas can overlap. Retain accepted decisions between cycles."
    }
  ],
  "period": "2026-09"
}