The Organizational World Model: Formal Requirements for Modeling Organizational Reality

Abstract

This paper derives the formal requirements for an organizational world model from first principles across four independent theoretical traditions. The Conant-Ashby good regulator theorem proves that governance requires a model. The Francis-Wonham internal model principle specifies what that model must contain. Together they yield ten formal requirements that any organizational world model must satisfy. No existing standard, framework, or system satisfies all ten.