Frameworks

The Institute develops conceptual frameworks to support clearer thinking about complex systems, institutional integrity, and governance under stress.

These frameworks are designed to:

• Clarify how risk accumulates over time
• Expose misalignment between authority, accountability, and information
• Support reflective decision-making at the board and executive levels

Frameworks are published alongside explanatory papers and are made available for non-commercial use with attribution.

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The Systems Integrity Cascade — Understanding Harm in Complex Systems

Learn the Systems Integrity Cascade framework: how system conditions, decision integrity, governance mediation, and failure dynamics interact to produce outcomes in complex institutions.

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Derived view: The Oversight Blindness Pathway — a simplified view of how the Cascade unfolds under sustained system stress.

Oversight Blindness Pathway (Derived View) | ISI

A simplified, derived view of how the Systems Integrity Cascade unfolds under sustained system stress—showing how visibility distorts, governance loses sensitivity, drift normalises, and outcomes become predictable.

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Integrity as a System Property | Institute for Systems Integrity |ISI

A derived governance lens explaining how authority, accountability, and information alignment produces integrity and outcomes under system stress.

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The ISI Governance Control Loop | Institute for Systems Integrity

Governance failure rarely begins with misconduct. It begins when constitutions, delegations, decisions, and oversight drift out of alignment under pressure. The ISI Governance Control Loop explains how integrity fails when the loop stops closing.

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The Failure Taxonomy | Institute for Systems Integrity | ISI

A derived governance framework showing how drift, signal loss, and accountability inversion produce harmful outcomes in stressed systems.

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The Pause Principle | Governance Control Condition – ISI

A governance framework explaining how the loss of pause accelerates failure under pressure — and why calm must be designed into systems, not demanded of individuals.

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Integrity Protection Stack (IPS) | Institute for Systems Integrity | ISI

The Integrity Protection Stack (IPS) explains how integrity is preserved under system stress through layered system design rather than individual resilience or heroics.

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Stress–Signal Conversion Model (SSCM) | Institute for Systems Integrity | ISI

The Stress–Signal Conversion Model (SSCM) explains how early warning signals are filtered, normalised, and suppressed before harm occurs.

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PREVENT–HOLD–RECOVER Integrity Loop | Institute for Systems Integrity| ISI

The PREVENT–HOLD–RECOVER Integrity Loop explains how integrity risk evolves across stability, sustained pressure, and recovery, with the HOLD phase posing the greatest threat to decision quality.

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