Background
About this work
Where the framework came from, what it claims, what it does not yet claim, and how to reach the author.
Where it came from
This work grew out of a decade of experience as a business analyst in organizational change and a recurring observation that initiatives could be delivered successfully without producing their intended outcomes.
That pattern is not adequately explained by execution alone. This site, and the paper it draws from, develops a higher-level conceptual structure for reasoning about organizational change as a connected whole.
The paper
The concepts here are drawn from Intent Integrity: A Unifying Principle for Reasoning in Organizational Change (Lars Rozema, 2026, Version 1.0), published on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0. The website restates the paper; where the two differ, the paper is authoritative for the version it describes, and the site follows the current version.
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Status
The framework is a conceptual structure developed from first-principles reasoning rather than an empirically validated model. It provides a simplified, higher-level way of understanding organizational change and a common vocabulary for reasoning about intent, direction, execution, and their connections. It remains to be established whether intent integrity can be assessed consistently in practice, under what conditions the framework is most useful, and whether systematic application improves reasoning or outcomes. These questions require further application, comparison, and empirical study.
Read scope, limits, and application for how the framework should be interpreted and applied.
This site
intent-integrity.com is the canonical public reference for the framework. Each concept has a stable URL and a canonical one-sentence definition that is the same wherever it appears. The site exists because the theory deserves a public home that can be read, cited, and questioned.
Further writing
This site holds the framework itself: the definitions, and the reasoning that connects them. I write more about intent integrity and related concepts, how they apply in practice in my work as a business analyst, and my interest in how AI is changing that work.
Comments welcome
If the framework is useful, if it is wrong, or if you have seen the pattern it describes from the inside, I would like to hear about it.