EM-STR-04 · Subject model · W2
Initiative and Investment Justification
A proposed change, the problem, alternatives, the business case, assumptions and the decisions to move to execution.
Partially published; research continues
Claude: complete-frozen-study-and-audit; Grok: complete-browser-study.
Published results
Research note, in Russian: Canonical promotion remains held by the limits published with the profile.
Subject boundary and candidate types
- Initiative
- BusinessCase
- Alternative
- Assumption
- InvestmentDecision
Deep research questions
- When does a proposal become a project or operational work?
- Which alternatives and uncertainties make the comparison honest?
- How is the justification revised after the initial conditions change?
Verifiable invariants
- A business case is versioned
- A rejected initiative keeps its grounds
- Funding does not prove a realized benefit
End-to-end acceptance scenario
Compare two alternatives with a shared benefit, different risks and a changed forecast; the decision is reproducible as of a date.
Negative case
An initiative automatically becomes a project when a ticket is created.
Approaches to compare
- ArchiMate: motivation, capability and realization relationships
- APQC: coverage of functions and processes
- PMI: benefit/business case; compare with a chosen OKR school and value-stream management
Candidates in the live catalogue
- WM-ACT-030 · Initiative · 0.3.0-research.1 · installable
Semantic fit requires boundary research; a published model does not by itself complete this card.
Result requirements
Every card is executed together with the full research contract: definitions, fields and cardinalities, lifecycle, sources, data mastership, rights, the five object facets, at least eight invariants, positive and negative examples, dependencies, migration and applicability limits.