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Represent a desired outcome as a governable record: what end state is wanted, for whom and by when, how attainment is measured, who is accountable, on what authority it stands, and how it is refined, changed and superseded — without owning the actions that pursue it, the metrics that measure it, or the systems that evaluate it.

World Models Information and virtual systems INF.KNW.GOL

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

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6 bundles · 16 layers · 27 findings · 99 questions

Goal semantics and identity What the record asserts, which role it plays in an objective hierarchy, how it is typed, identified and worded.

Definition and typing

The atomic desired-outcome statement, its achievement criteria, and the classification that positions it among objectives, targets and indicators.

Desired-outcome statement

The end state the goal requires — subject, direction of change and condition of satisfaction — expressed independently of the means used to reach it.

What end state or condition does this goal require, stated without reference to the actions that would produce it? definition
What clear-cut criteria distinguish 'achieved' from 'progressed but not achieved'? requirement
Is quantification of this outcome practicable, and if not, on what justification is it left qualitative? classification
Which terms in the wording are vague or contested and must be defined before the goal is operable? quality

Objective, target and indicator roles

Rules that place a record as an overall objective, a derived detailed target, or neither — the indicator being a measurement expression owned by another model.

Does this record express an overall objective, a derived performance target, or a restatement of an indicator? classification
Which objective does this target detail, and could that objective stand without this target? composition
Which indicator expresses progress here, and which model owns that indicator's definition and computation? relationship
What is recorded if every target is met but the intended outcome does not materialise? exception

Goal classification scheme

Controlled vocabularies typing the goal by level, result type, obligation status and measurability so agents can select comparable goals.

At which level does this goal sit: strategic, tactical or operational? classification
Does the goal express an outcome, an output, or an activity level of result? measurement
Is the goal mandated by law or contract, or is it voluntarily adopted? authority
Which version of each classification code list applied when this goal was classified? interoperability

Identity and naming

How a goal record is identified across systems and how its official wording is carried and localised.

Goal identity and governed codes

The identifier set that makes a goal citable: authoritative register identifier, governed external codes and a locally minted fallback.

Which system is the master for this goal, and what identifier does it issue? identity
Does the goal carry a governed external code such as an SDG target code or a statutory reference? interoperability
When no master identifier exists, what locally minted identifier is used and who mints it? identity
What changes to the goal force a new identifier rather than a new version of the same record? constraint

Official wording and language variants

Control of the authoritative wording, translations and short labels, and of changes to wording that do not change the goal's substance.

Which language version of the wording is authoritative, and which are translations? provenance
What short label may be used in listings without misrepresenting the full statement? definition
Was a wording change editorial, or did it alter the substance of the commitment? validation

Target specification, measure binding and horizon The parameters that make a goal testable: what is measured, from what baseline, to what value, over what scope and by when.

Quantification and baseline

Binding of the goal to a measure and to baseline and target values with their units and methodological assumptions.

Measure binding by reference

The reference from the goal to one or more indicator or metric definitions, with the parameters this goal contributes and nothing of the measure's own definition.

Which measure definitions is this goal bound to, and at what version of each? relationship
Which parameters of the measure does the goal fix (disaggregation, population, unit) without redefining the measure? constraint
If no measure is available, what qualitative evaluation basis is declared instead? exception
What happens to the goal when the bound measure's definition changes or is retired? lifecycle

Target value, baseline and base period

The quantified commitment: baseline value and base year, target value with unit, absolute or relative form, tolerance and threshold direction.

What baseline value and base year anchor the measurement of progress, and were they defined or inherited? measurement
What target value is to be achieved, and is it absolute or relative to the baseline? measurement
Is achievement defined as at least, at most, or within a band around the target value? constraint
Under what conditions may the baseline be restated, and what must be preserved when it is? validation

Methodology, scenario and assumptions

The significant assumptions, scenarios, data sources and evidence basis on which the target value was set, disclosed so the target can be challenged.

What methodology and significant assumptions were used to derive the target value? provenance
Which scenario or projection underlies the target, and over what horizon does it hold? evidence
Does the target rest on conclusive scientific evidence, and how is that claim substantiated? evidence

Horizon and milestones

The temporal commitment of the goal and its declared interim points.

Target horizon and effective period

The period the goal applies to and the point by which the target value must hold, distinguished from record-keeping times.

By what target year or period must the target value be reached, and is it a point or a sustained period? temporal
From when is the goal in force, and when does it cease to apply irrespective of attainment? temporal
Which calendar or fiscal-year convention governs the base and target periods? constraint

Interim targets and milestones

Declared intermediate values or scheduled checkpoints between baseline and target, held as commitments rather than as schedule execution.

What interim target values or milestone conditions are committed, and at which dates? temporal
Which milestones signify completion of a major deliverable rather than a measured value? event
What is declared to happen if an interim target is missed? exception

Scope and boundary conditions

What the goal covers and excludes, and the external conditions assumed to hold.

Scope, exclusions and external conditions

Organisational, geographic, value-chain or population coverage of the goal, its stated exclusions, and the external dependencies assumed when it was set.

Which entities, activities, value-chain stages or populations does the goal cover? composition
To which geographies or jurisdictions does the goal apply? spatial
What is deliberately excluded from the scope, and on what stated ground? constraint
Which external conditions or third-party dependencies are assumed to hold for the goal to remain achievable? evidence

Goal structure and relations How goals compose into hierarchies, how they relate to means, drivers and constraints, and how conflicts between them are declared.

Refinement and contribution

Decomposition of goals into sub-goals and the qualitative contribution links between them.

Goal refinement structure

AND/OR refinement of a goal into sub-goals or targets, with the satisfaction rule that follows from the refinement type.

Is this refinement conjunctive, so that all children are required, or disjunctive, so that any child suffices? composition
Do the declared children fully account for the parent, or is there an unallocated remainder? validation
How are cycles and cross-level shortcuts in the refinement graph detected and prevented? constraint
Where a goal contributes to another without refining it, is the contribution positive or negative and how strong? relationship

Alignment to higher-level ends

Links from the goal upward to strategic ends, mandates or external frameworks it is intended to serve, without asserting equivalence.

Which higher-level end, strategy or framework goal does this goal serve, and how directly? relationship
Is the alignment self-declared or recognised by the owner of the higher-level end? authority
How is consistency with the governing policy of the organisation demonstrated? validation

Linkage to means, drivers and constraints

Reference-only links from the goal to the actions that pursue it and to the drivers, constraints and risks that surround it.

Means and action linkage

Links to the plans, programmes or actions intended to achieve the goal, held as references while planning and execution stay with the action model.

Which actions, programmes or courses of action are declared as means for this goal? relationship
Where are the resources, responsibilities and completion dates for those means recorded? process
Is the goal currently without any declared means, and is that intentional? state

Drivers, constraints and risk linkage

References to the drivers or assessments that motivated the goal, the constraints that bound it, and the risks expressed against it.

What driver, assessment or material matter motivated the setting of this goal? provenance
Which constraints, legal limits or standing requirements bound the goal's permissible values? constraint
Which risks are registered against the achievement of this goal, and where are they assessed? relationship

Conflict, trade-off and priority

Declared tensions between goals and the priority guidance to be applied by decision-makers.

Conflict and priority declaration

Explicit statement of which goals compete, how they trade off, and what relative priority or weight has been declared by the authority that set them.

Which other goals does this goal compete with for the same resources or outcomes? relationship
What relative priority, weight or rank has the setting authority declared among competing goals? authority
What guidance is declared for resolving the trade-off, and who is entitled to apply it? decision
Which conflicts remain unresolved and must be surfaced rather than silently arbitrated? exception

Accountability and authority Who owns the goal, who is answerable for it, and what makes it a legitimate commitment.

Ownership and roles

Assignment of accountable and contributing parties for the goal record and its commitment.

Accountability assignment

The named party accountable for the goal, the roles that contribute, and the party responsible for the correctness of the record itself.

Which single party is answerable for whether this goal is met? ownership
Which organisations, units or agents contribute to the goal without being accountable for it? relationship
Who is responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the goal record as distinct from achieving the goal? ownership
How is accountability transferred when the accountable party changes or ceases to exist? lifecycle

Mandate and legitimacy

The authority basis that makes the goal binding or voluntary, and the involvement of stakeholders in setting it.

Authority, mandate and stakeholder involvement

What instrument or decision established the goal, how binding it is, and whether affected stakeholders were involved in setting the target.

Which legal instrument, decision or commitment established this goal? authority
Is the goal legally binding, contractually binding, board-approved or aspirational? classification
Were affected stakeholders involved in setting the target, and how was their input handled? process
Where is the approval or adoption decision recorded, and by whom was it taken? decision

Lifecycle, provenance and change control How a goal record moves through its declared states, how it is versioned and restated, and how its origin is recorded.

Goal record lifecycle

Declared status of the goal record and the triggers that cause it to be reviewed.

Declared status and review triggers

The coded state of the goal record — proposed, approved, active, suspended, achieved, missed, superseded, withdrawn — and the cadence or events that trigger review, with attainment verdicts referenced from elsewhere.

What is the current declared status of this goal record, and since when? state
Which status transitions are permitted, and which are terminal? lifecycle
What cadence or event triggers a review of the goal irrespective of its measured progress? event
Where does the verdict on attainment come from, given that it is not computed in this model? evidence

Change control and restatement

Controlled modification of targets, baselines and methodologies with preserved comparability.

Target and methodology restatement

Record of what changed in a target, baseline or methodology, why, and how prior commitments remain comparable.

What exactly changed: the target value, the baseline, the scope, or the methodology? process
On what stated ground was the change made, and who authorised it? authority
What is the effect of the change on comparability with previously reported commitments? quality
Are weakenings of a target permitted, and under what additional conditions? constraint

Provenance and versioning

Origin, attribution and version structure of the goal record.

Record provenance and time separation

Who stated the goal, from what source it was derived, and the separation of the commitment's event time from the record's capture time.

Which agent stated this goal and which agent captured it into the register? provenance
From which source document or upstream record was this goal derived, and at which version? provenance
How are the commitment's event time and the record's ingestion time distinguished on this record? temporal
How confident is the capture, and what would falsify it? evidence

Versioning and supersession

How successive versions of a goal record relate, which version is current, and how superseded versions remain resolvable.

Which version of this goal record is current, and how is it distinguished from its predecessors? state
Which record supersedes this one, and does the successor keep the same identity? lifecycle
Can a citation of an older version still be resolved, and for how long? retention

Definition quality, interoperability and access Whether the goal record is well formed, how it maps to external frameworks, and who may see or reuse it.

Definition quality and validation

Structural checks on the goal record and references to any external verification of the commitment.

Definition conformance and verification references

The checklist of structural properties a goal record must satisfy, its failures, and pointers to any external assurance or verification of the target.

Which structural conditions must hold for this record to be considered a usable goal? validation
Is the goal measurable, and if not, is the non-practicability justification recorded? quality
Is the target outcome-oriented rather than a restatement of activity? quality
Has any external body verified or assured this target, and with what scope and conclusion? evidence

Interoperability and alignment

Mappings to external goal frameworks and the format-neutral exchange rules for goal records.

External alignment crosswalk

Mappings from this goal to external framework elements, with mapping strength and recorded divergences, asserted as alignment and never as conformance.

To which external framework elements does this goal map, and at what version of each framework? interoperability
Is each mapping exact, broader, narrower or merely related? classification
Does the organisation claim conformance to the external framework, and what evidence supports the claim? evidence
Where do the external framework's semantics conflict with this model's, and how is the conflict recorded? exception

Format-neutral exchange rules

Requirements that keep goal semantics stable across storage and interface projections, including canonical ordering and code-list versioning on export.

What is the canonical form of a goal record for comparison and hashing, independent of serialisation? interoperability
Which fields may be lost or flattened when projecting to a given storage or interface format, and how is that recorded? quality
How must outgoing references be expressed so that they resolve outside the originating system? constraint

Access, disclosure and retention

Who may read the goal, whether it must be published, and how long superseded goal records are kept.

Disclosure status and confidentiality

Whether the goal must be published, may be withheld, or is embargoed, and the sensitivity constraints on individual-level goals.

Is publication of this goal mandated, and under which instrument and timetable? access
On what ground may parts of the goal be withheld or redacted before disclosure? exception
Does the goal identify or target an identifiable individual, and what restriction follows? privacy
Is the goal under embargo until a stated release moment? temporal

Retention class and disposition reference

How long goal records, superseded versions and restatement notes are kept, and which external policy executes disposition.

Which retention class applies to this goal record and to its superseded versions? retention
Which prior targets and baselines must be retained to keep reported progress comparable? requirement
Which model or policy executes disposition, given that this model only declares the class? ownership
What remains resolvable after a goal record is withdrawn or destroyed? lifecycle

Classifiers Filled

Family: World Models
Category: Information and virtual systems
Entry kind: entity
Navigation path: NAV.INF.KNW.GOL
Domain: INF.KNW.GOL
Industry: Cross-industry
Tags: goalobjectiveinf.knw.gol

What it is Filled

In scope is the declarative content of a goal or objective record and the parameters that make it operable by an agent: statement, role (overall objective vs derived target), classification, identity and codes, measure binding by reference, baseline and target value with unit and scope, time horizon and interim milestones, refinement and contribution structure, accountability and mandate, declared status and change control, provenance, definition quality and external alignments. Out of scope is anything that happens when the goal is pursued or measured: planning and execution of actions, collection or computation of indicator values, evaluation verdicts, enforcement, incentives and audit-trail keeping. Sources consistently separate objective (overall end), target (detailed derived performance requirement) and indicator (measurement expression), and assign 'how results will be evaluated' to action planning rather than to the objective itself.

In scope

Goal statement semantics: subject of change, direction, end-state condition and achievement criteria
Role distinction between overall objective, derived target and referenced indicator
Identity, governed codes and canonical wording (including language variants) of the goal record
Target parameters: baseline value, base year/period, target value, unit, absolute vs relative, tolerance and scope boundary
Time horizon, target year or period, interim targets and milestones as declared parameters
Refinement (AND/OR), contribution and alignment to higher-level ends
Declared conflicts, trade-offs and priority among goals (declaration, not runtime arbitration)
Accountability assignment: owner, lead/responsible official, contributors, approver
Authority and mandate basis: statutory, contractual, board-approved or voluntary; binding vs aspirational
Goal-record lifecycle status, review cadence triggers, restatement and supersession
Provenance of the goal record, including event time versus ingestion time
Definition quality and structural validation of the goal record
Alignment mappings to external goal/target frameworks and declared conflicts with them
Disclosure status and retention/disposition references for superseded goal records

Out of scope

Indicator/metric definitions, computation methods and data collection procedures (measure model owns these; the goal only carries a reference and target parameters)
Observation values, time series and progress data points used to judge attainment
Evaluation verdicts, scoring engines, performance appraisal and any runtime attainment computation
Planning, scheduling, resourcing and execution of the actions or programmes that pursue the goal (parent action model)
Policy, rule and requirement enforcement, permission evaluation and compliance determination
Risk identification, assessment and treatment records
Decision and approval records themselves (referenced, not reproduced)
Audit trails, records-management disposition execution and evidential retention operations
Party/organisation and role master data
Budget, funding and incentive/compensation mechanics
Published reports or disclosures that contain goals (rendering artefacts of other models)

Why it exists Filled

Distinguishing features Filled

A desired outcome as a governed record, separate from actions, metrics and results.
Declares targets and measures but never records attainment values or verdicts.
Unlike a requirement, it states an end state rather than a constraint.
Unlike a task goal for a robot, it has accountability, authority and a lifecycle.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

Record attainment scores or verdicts in the goal record.
Weaken or withdraw a goal without an authorising role.
Leave a goal without a measure and no justification.
Claim strong alignment with a framework without a stated basis.
Restate a target silently.

Only with a human decision

Setting or restating a target.
Withdrawing a public commitment.

May

Register and classify a goal.
Bind measures and target parameters.
Refine goals into sub-goals.
Record alignment with an external framework such as the SDGs.

Moral aspects Filled

Public goals create accountability; silent weakening misleads stakeholders.
Targets applied to individuals can create harmful pressure.
Goals for some groups can shift costs to others.

Who is affected

Stakeholders relying on public commitments
Teams accountable for goals
Communities affected by outcomes

Owners Filled

Steward

The adopting Dimension names one owner package that holds the goal register, its code lists and its mapping tables, and publishes the owner contact and escalation path.

Roles

Goal owner (accountable party): Answer for whether the goal is met; Approve substantive changes to target value, scope or horizon; Confirm the declared authority basis and disclosure status
Goal record steward: Maintain the accuracy, identity and version linkage of the record; Run definition conformance checks and track open findings; Keep references to measures, actions, decisions and risks resolvable
Measure custodian (external, referenced): Own the indicator definition, unit and computation method referenced by the goal; Notify goal stewards of measure changes or retirement that force restatement
Register administrator: Operate identifier assignment under the identity priority and prevent reuse; Publish and version code lists and alignment crosswalks; Apply retention classes and create tombstones on withdrawal
Disclosure and access authority: Decide publication, embargo and redaction of goal records; Record withholding grounds and the approving authority; Route privacy-restricted goals to the Dimension privacy policy

Links to other meta-models Filled

child

WM-ACT-008 — Action / Activity (registered parent model) - The goal is the intended end state of action; this model is registered beneath the action model, which retains planning, resourcing, scheduling and execution of the means (EMAS clause 6.2.2 assigns what, resources, who, when and how results are evaluated to action planning).

references

Indicator / measure definition model (sibling; identifier to be assigned by the registry) - Carry an indicator reference, unit and the goal-specific target parameters only; the indicator's definition, computation method, data sources and periodicity remain owned by the measure model.
Measurement / observation (time series) model (sibling; identifier to be assigned) - Reference observed values and assessment outputs used to support a status claim; no observation values, aggregation or progress computation are stored or performed here.
Party / organisation / role model (sibling; identifier to be assigned) - Resolve accountable party, contributors, record steward and authorising roles; party master data and appointment lifecycle stay in that model.
Policy / rule / requirement model (sibling; identifier to be assigned) - Cite the governing policy the objective must be consistent with and the constraints bounding permissible target values; obligation expression, evaluation and enforcement remain in that model.
Decision / approval model (sibling; identifier to be assigned) - Cite the decision that approved, revised or withdrew the goal; the deliberation, voting and decision record structure are not reproduced here.
Risk model (sibling; identifier to be assigned) - Link risks registered against achievement of the goal, since risk is expressed relative to objectives; assessment, treatment and monitoring stay in the risk model.
Records management / retention model of the adopting Dimension - Declare retention class and tombstone expectations for superseded goal records; scheduling, execution and evidence of disposition are owned there.

composes

Provenance mixin aligned to W3C PROV-O - Reuse Entity/Activity/Agent attribution, derivation and qualified-influence patterns for goal-record provenance instead of defining a local provenance vocabulary.

aligned

UN SDG global indicator framework (goal, target and indicator codes) - Map goal records to SDG target codes as an external governed scheme, recording framework version and mapping strength; the SDG framework's custodianship and refinement process are external.
ESRS 2 minimum disclosure requirement for targets (MDR-T) - Align target attributes (baseline, base year, unit, scope, period, milestones, methodology, changes) with the reporting datapoints, without adopting the sustainability statement's preparation or assurance process.
GPRA Modernization Act performance goal, indicator and milestone definitions (31 U.S.C. 1115) - Align the target-level-of-performance and lead-official concepts for public-sector goal records; the statutory planning and reporting cycle itself is out of scope.
iStar 2.0 goal modelling constructs (goal, quality, refinement, contribution, dependency) - Adopt refinement and contribution semantics for goal structure while leaving actor-dependency analysis and requirements-engineering method to that language.

neighbor

Indicator / measure definition model - EMAS defines an environmental performance indicator as 'a specific expression that allows measurement of an organisation's environmental performance', separate from objective and target; ESRS separates minimum disclosures for metrics (MDR-M) from targets (MDR-T). This model carries an indicator reference, unit and target parameters only.
Measurement / observation (time series) model - Actual values, coverage and periodicity of measurement belong to the observation model; only baseline value, base year and target value are held here as declared parameters of the commitment.
WM-ACT-008 Action / Activity (parent) - EMAS clause 6.2.2 assigns 'what will be done, what resources will be required, who will be responsible, when it will be completed, how the results will be evaluated' to planning of actions. This model records the end state and its accountability, not the plan or its execution.
Policy / rule / requirement model - EMAS derives objectives from the environmental policy; policy is the standing normative frame, the objective is the result sought. Obligation expression, enforcement and permission evaluation stay in the policy model.
Risk model - Objectives are the reference point against which risk is expressed; risk registers, likelihood/impact assessment and treatment plans are not modelled here, only referenced.
Decision / approval model - The act of approving, adopting or withdrawing a goal is a decision record owned elsewhere; this model stores the approval reference, the resulting authority basis and the effective period.
Agent task/request model (e.g. ROS 2 action goals) - An execution goal is a request with a server-side state machine (ACCEPTED, EXECUTING, CANCELING, SUCCEEDED, ABORTED, CANCELED) owned by the executing system. That state machine is not imported; this model keeps only the standing goal record's declared status.
Reporting / disclosure document model - ESRS target disclosures are rendered inside a sustainability statement; the statement, its structure and its assurance are a reporting artefact, while the target definition itself is the governed record here.
Records management / retention model - This model declares retention class, tombstone and supersession references; physical disposition and its evidence are executed under the adopting Dimension's records policy.

parent

WM-ACT-008

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Sources Filled

31 U.S.C. 1115 — Federal Government and agency performance plans - Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives (via GovInfo)
Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1505 amending Annexes I, II and III to Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 (EMAS) - European Commission / EUR-Lex
Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) - European Parliament and Council / EUR-Lex
ESRS 2 General Disclosures — Minimum Disclosure Requirement Targets (MDR-T), paragraphs 78-81 - EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) Knowledge Hub
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 supplementing Directive 2013/34/EU as regards sustainability reporting standards - European Commission / EUR-Lex
SDG Indicators — Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda - United Nations Statistics Division / Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators
iStar 2.0 Language Guide - Dalpiaz, Franch and Horkoff (arXiv:1605.07767)
PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
ROS 2 Design — Actions - ROS 2 project (design.ros2.org)
What is a management system? - International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Open questions

Retrieve OMG Business Motivation Model 1.3 by alternative PDF text extraction or an authoritative secondary rendering, and test its Goal-versus-Objective distinction against the record-role code adopted here.
Obtain licensed access to ArchiMate 3.2 motivation elements (Goal, Outcome, Driver, Assessment) that are currently behind an authentication redirect, and record an alignment crosswalk entry with an explicit mapping strength.
Obtain a licensed copy of ISO 9000:2015 term 3.7.1 ('objective: result to be achieved'), which returned HTTP 403 from the ISO Online Browsing Platform, and use it to replace or confirm the non-primary ISO committee page now supporting the goal-level taxonomy.
Find a primary source governing authoritative-language and translation equivalence for goal statements (for example the equal-authenticity rules for EU language versions) to close the declared localisation gap.
Find a primary source that settles milestone ownership between the goal record and the plan/schedule model, so interim commitments and scheduled deliverable events can be separated by evidence rather than by declaration.
Test target-attribute mandates outside the EU and US instruments cited here (other national performance, sustainability or reporting regimes) to check whether the regional assumptions understate required goal attributes.
Resolve the registry parent link: determine whether WM-ACT-008 is a containment parent or a typed 'pursued by' relation, given that the nav path places this model under information/knowledge and the boundary notes deny ownership of plan and execution.
OMG Business Motivation Model 1.3 could not be text-extracted from the published PDF, so its Goal-versus-Objective distinction is not cited; the role distinction here rests on EMAS, GPRAMA and ESRS instead.
The ArchiMate 3.2 motivation elements (Goal, Outcome, Driver, Assessment) are behind an authentication redirect and are therefore not cited or aligned; this is a known alignment gap.
ISO 9000:2015 term 3.7.1 ('objective: result to be achieved') could not be retrieved from the ISO Online Browsing Platform (HTTP 403); only ISO's public explanatory page is cited, so the ISO term definition is not directly evidenced.
OKR, KPI cascades and balanced-scorecard practice are deliberately excluded as non-normative common practice rather than requirements.
Individual performance appraisal goals are only touched through the privacy restriction; employment-law constraints on personal objectives are not modelled.
No formal satisfaction-propagation or goal-reasoning semantics are defined; refinement is recorded declaratively and inference is left to consuming reasoners.
Milestone typing partially overlaps the plan/schedule model; the boundary is declared but not settled by a primary source.

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