CATWOE analysis
Forces a root definition through customers, actors, transformation, worldview, owners, and environment, and its owners question, who could stop this, is a direct authority test even though the mnemonic itself never proposes an org chart.
Peter Checkland, with David Smyth, 1970s
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads two: Purpose and Authority. The other ten it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
A root definition mnemonic within Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology, scored here as its own listed entry.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
What orients a person and an agent when neither can see the whole system?
Which decisions may an agent make alone, and who is able to stop it?