{
  "title": "Douglas Operating System Methodology Registry",
  "version": "4.2.1",
  "source_of_record": "https://dossystem.org/library.html",
  "updated": "2026-09-02",
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-JOURNEY-001",
      "category": "Interactive Experience",
      "name": "DOS CEO Journey",
      "status": "Public Experience",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/ceo-journey.html",
      "summary": "CEO-first guided path through enterprise signal, decision value, readiness, customer experience, barriers, and next-step fit."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-CORE-001",
      "category": "Core Methodology",
      "name": "Douglas Operating System (DOS)",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/methodology.html#dos-ref-core-001",
      "summary": "The executive operating methodology for running the enterprise as one integrated system and transforming operations into enterprise value."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-001",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Enterprise Operating Architecture™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/eoa.html#dos-ref-fwk-001",
      "summary": "Integrates strategy, capabilities, processes, people, technology, data, governance, and value."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-002",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Enterprise Performance Framework™ (EPF™)",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/epf.html#dos-ref-fwk-002",
      "summary": "Connects enterprise outcomes, drivers, organizational health, risk, learning, accountability, and action."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-003",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Executive Governance Model™ (EGM™)",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/egm.html#dos-ref-fwk-003",
      "summary": "Clarifies decision rights, evidence standards, escalation, forums, review rhythms, and accountability."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-004",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Enterprise Customer Experience Framework™ (ECXF™)",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/ecxf.html#dos-ref-fwk-004",
      "summary": "Manages customer experience as a measurable enterprise capability across functions and ecosystem partners."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-005",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Enterprise Resilience Framework™ (ERF™)",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/resilience.html#dos-ref-fwk-005",
      "summary": "Builds capacity to anticipate, absorb, adapt, recover, learn, and improve."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-GOV-001",
      "category": "Governance",
      "name": "Responsible AI Governance",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/responsible-ai.html#dos-ref-gov-001",
      "summary": "Connects AI adoption to governance, human oversight, operating accountability, risk, and enterprise value."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-ASMT-001",
      "category": "Assessment",
      "name": "DOS Executive Readiness Assessment™",
      "status": "Application",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/assessment.html#dos-ref-asmt-001",
      "summary": "Executive diagnostic for identifying enterprise readiness, alignment, and operating conditions."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-ASMT-002",
      "category": "Assessment",
      "name": "Enterprise Reality Assessment Beta",
      "status": "Beta",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/enterprise-reality.html#dos-ref-asmt-002",
      "summary": "Vertical sensing model connecting C-Suite, Director, Manager, Frontline, Customer, and Evidence signals."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PLAT-001",
      "category": "Digital Platform",
      "name": "DOS Executive Platform",
      "status": "Beta",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/executive-dashboard.html#dos-ref-plat-001",
      "summary": "Digital operating environment for enterprise sensing, diagnosis, governance, executive action, and measurable capability improvement."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-EDU-001",
      "category": "Education",
      "name": "DOS Executive Education",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/education.html#dos-ref-edu-001",
      "summary": "Executive briefings, diagnostics, workshops, labs, implementation, toolkits, and capability development."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-LAB-001",
      "category": "Interactive Experience",
      "name": "DOS Executive Value Lab",
      "status": "Public Experience",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/value-lab.html#dos-ref-lab-001",
      "summary": "Five-minute digital workshop experience: Define → See → Diagnose → Decide → Realize → Reinvest™."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-CERT-001",
      "category": "Certification",
      "name": "DOS Certification",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/certification.html#dos-ref-cert-001",
      "summary": "Controlled education, qualification, authorization, and enterprise certification pathways."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-RES-001",
      "category": "Research",
      "name": "DOS Research",
      "status": "Active",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/research.html#dos-ref-res-001",
      "summary": "Research, validation, academic engagement, operating evidence, and methodology development."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-BOOK-001",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "DOS Books & Publishing",
      "status": "Active",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/books.html#dos-ref-book-001",
      "summary": "Book publications and long-form methodology development supporting the DOS body of knowledge."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-001",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Visibility Precedes Accountability™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-01.html#dos-ref-prin-001",
      "summary": "Leaders need credible enterprise visibility before accountability can be fair or effective."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-002",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Leadership Exists to Remove Barriers™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-03.html#dos-ref-prin-002",
      "summary": "Leadership creates the conditions in which people and systems can reliably produce the intended outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-003",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Great Leaders Reduce Friction™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-04.html#dos-ref-prin-003",
      "summary": "Enterprise friction consumes capacity, increases effort, and degrades customer and workforce outcomes."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-004",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Capability Before Expectation™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-05.html#dos-ref-prin-004",
      "summary": "Leadership should validate that required capability exists before demanding an outcome."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-005",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Metrics Must Mature™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-06.html#dos-ref-prin-005",
      "summary": "Measures should progress from activity to performance, outcome, and enterprise value."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-006",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Enterprise Value Is Created Between Departments™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-02.html#dos-ref-prin-006",
      "summary": "Enterprise outcomes are created across the horizontal system, especially at handoffs and dependencies."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-007",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "People Want to Succeed™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-07.html#dos-ref-prin-007",
      "summary": "Diagnose the operating conditions before assuming people lack commitment."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-008",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Integration Precedes Optimization™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-08.html#dos-ref-prin-008",
      "summary": "Connect the enterprise before optimizing individual components."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-009",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Governance Must Accelerate Execution™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-09.html#dos-ref-prin-009",
      "summary": "Use governance to increase decision quality, accountability, and execution speed."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-PRIN-010",
      "category": "Principle",
      "name": "Transformation Is a Capability, Not an Event™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-10.html#dos-ref-prin-010",
      "summary": "Build the enduring capability to transform, learn, scale, and renew."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L01",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Visibility Precedes Accountability™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-01.html#dos-l01",
      "summary": "Leaders cannot fairly govern, improve, or hold people accountable for conditions they cannot adequately see and understand."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L02",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Enterprise Value Is Created Between Departments™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-02.html#dos-l02",
      "summary": "Enterprise value is created or destroyed through the connections, handoffs, decisions, information flows, dependencies, and tradeoffs that cross organizational boundaries."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L03",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Leadership Exists to Remove Barriers™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-03.html#dos-l03",
      "summary": "Leadership is not merely the authority to demand performance. It is the responsibility to remove the conditions that prevent capable people and systems from performing successfully."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L04",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Great Leaders Reduce Friction™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-04.html#dos-l04",
      "summary": "Enterprise friction is the avoidable effort, delay, confusion, conflict, rework, complexity, and cost created by the operating system."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L05",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Capability Before Expectation™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-05.html#dos-l05",
      "summary": "Leadership cannot credibly increase expectations without ensuring that the organization possesses the capability required to achieve them."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L06",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Metrics Must Mature™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-06.html#dos-l06",
      "summary": "The purpose of measurement is not reporting. It is better management and better decisions."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L07",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "People Want to Succeed™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-07.html#dos-l07",
      "summary": "Most people want to perform well, contribute, be trusted, develop competence, and see their work create a worthwhile result."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L08",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Integration Precedes Optimization™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-08.html#dos-l08",
      "summary": "An enterprise cannot optimize disconnected priorities, functions, decisions, measures, resources, technologies, risks, and accountabilities into one coherent result."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L09",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Governance Must Accelerate Execution™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-09.html#dos-l09",
      "summary": "Governance exists to improve the quality, clarity, speed, accountability, and traceability of consequential enterprise decisions."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-L10",
      "category": "Law",
      "name": "Transformation Is a Capability, Not an Event™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/law-10.html#dos-l10",
      "summary": "Transformation succeeds when the enterprise can operate differently, sustain the improvement, learn from the experience, scale what works, and become more capable of transforming again."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-PUB-INSIGHTS-001",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "DOS Executive Insights — Public Archive",
      "status": "Published",
      "url": "insights.html",
      "summary": "Public thought-leadership archive preserving Executive Insights #001–010 and their canonical DOS methodology references."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-PUB-ART-001",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "AI Won’t Fix a Company That Doesn’t Operate as a System",
      "status": "Published",
      "url": "article-ai-wont-fix.html",
      "summary": "AI enters an operating system, not a vacuum. The article argues that fragmented processes, data, governance, decision rights, and accountability can be accelerated—not repaired—by AI, making enterprise operating design a CEO-level prerequisite for scalable AI value."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-PUB-ART-002",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "The Company You Manage Is Not the Company Your Customer Experiences",
      "status": "Published",
      "url": "article-company-you-manage.html",
      "summary": "Executives manage through structure while customers experience outcomes. This article reframes the customer journey as an operating architecture and shows how handoffs, customer effort, ownership, cross-functional measures, and governance reveal the enterprise customers actually experience."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-PUB-ART-003",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "Successful Departments. Failing Company.",
      "status": "Published",
      "url": "article-successful-departments.html",
      "summary": "A company can post strong functional results and still underperform as an enterprise. The article examines local optimization, transferred cost, invisible friction, handoff failure, the Executive Altitude Gap™, and the governance required to connect functional accountability to whole-enterprise performance."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-PUB-ART-004",
      "category": "Publication",
      "name": "Your Dashboard Is Green. Your Enterprise May Not Be.",
      "status": "Published",
      "url": "article-dashboard-green.html",
      "summary": "Green functional KPIs can create false confidence when leaders cannot see the cross-functional system. This article introduces enterprise friction, the Executive Altitude Gap™, enterprise signals, and the need to supplement departmental measures with visibility into handoffs, rework, decision latency, customer effort, and operating reality."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-006",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Enterprise Value Loop™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "enterprise-value-loop.html",
      "summary": "Links visibility, friction diagnosis, action, value realization, reinvestment, and institutionalized capability."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-FWK-007",
      "category": "Framework",
      "name": "Executive Operating Model™",
      "status": "Canonical",
      "url": "executive-operating-model.html",
      "summary": "Integrates priorities, leadership capacity, governance, operating rhythms, performance intelligence, culture, and continuity."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-LEARN-001",
      "category": "Education",
      "name": "DOS Executive Learning Center",
      "status": "Public Experience",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/learning.html",
      "summary": "Public executive learning environment for lessons, guided learning paths, perspectives, canonical references, and interactive DOS experiences."
    },
    {
      "id": "DOS-REF-DX-001",
      "category": "Digital Experience",
      "name": "DOS Executive Digital Experience v1",
      "status": "Public Experience",
      "url": "https://dossystem.org/executive-experience.html",
      "summary": "Public browser-local preview of a persistent executive operating experience organized around Today, My Path, Enterprise, and Advisor; designed to demonstrate personalization, reflection, capability visibility, and guided executive decision questions without exposing controlled assessment or platform logic."
    }
  ]
}