group of organizations

What the draft defines

An assembly of two or more organizations that share collective objectives.

This is our statement of the public preview, not a quotation. The term itself stays verbatim; the definition is paraphrased and checked for overlap before it ships.

Why the term is in the draft

This is the broader idea. It covers networks, alliances and federations where no single member controls another. The draft uses it to mark the edge of its own scope: the guidance does not apply to a group in this broad sense unless the control test is also met.

What to do with it in the group

If your structure is a network or an alliance without a controller, record that finding and stop. The draft's scope does not reach you, and saying so is a useful board answer.

Record the term in the evaluation glossary and use it consistently in the boundary map, the board paper and the report. A group that uses three words for the same role makes its own evaluation harder to read, and the draft's definitions are the cheapest common language available.

Three checks before the term goes in the board paper

• Same word, same meaning. Check that the instrument which gives the controller its right uses this term in the same sense. Where it uses a different word, record the mapping in the glossary rather than switching between them.
• One owner. Name the board or group function that decides what the term means for this group. A definition without an owner drifts the first time two entities interpret it differently.
• A dated example. Put one real example beside the definition: an entity, a decision or a document. A term that cannot be illustrated in the group's own facts is not yet in use.

The other terms in Groups of organizations are worth reading together, because the definition of one often depends on another.

Terms in the same group

• 3.1.1 organization
• 3.1.2 organizational entity
• 3.1.3 controlled entity
• 3.1.5 group of organizational entities

All 21 terms Test the definition