Human-Centered Enterprise (HCE)

What is the HCE?

The HCE is a public conceptual and architectural framework.
It is not a method, not a consultancy, and not a commercial asset.

Its purpose is to define how organizations can remain coherent, adaptive and meaningful when technology evolves faster than internal structures can absorb.

The framework establishes:

– the epistemology that distinguishes pattern from meaning,
– the centrality of human singularity in non-formalizable work,
– the architecture of modular, reconfigurable organizations,
– the role of augmented humans and cognitive teams,
– the ethical limits that protect dignity and interpretative agency.

Any organization or consultancy may use the framework as long as its principles, boundaries and ethical commitments are respected.

Why the HCE exists

Technological acceleration has broken the logic that sustained the organizational models of the 20th century.
Companies optimize processes while losing interpretative capacity; strategy collapses as markets behave like living systems; automation eliminates differentiating human functions; and people lose their professional horizon.

The HCE exists to provide a stable structure in an unstable world, by defining:

– what must be automated and what must never be automated,
– how to design talent as a cognitive system rather than an inventory,
– how to integrate augmentation responsibly,
– how to create evolving organizations that learn faster than their environment.

Foundational Principles of the HCE

1. Human singularity as structural advantage
   Machines operate on patterns; humans operate on meaning.
2. Augmented humans as the basic unit of value
   Technology amplifies human interpretation, not the opposite.
3. Non-formalizable work as the center of differentiation
   Value emerges in exceptions, tensions and decisions without rules.
4. The market as a living system
   Organizations must evolve at the speed of human tensions, not plans.
5. Modular, reconfigurable architecture
   Startups-within-the-company as engines of evolution.
6. Ethical symmetry
   What is unacceptable toward employees is equally unacceptable toward the market.
7. Interpretative decisions are always human
   No delegation of meaning to systems.
8. Purpose as structural compass
   Identity must be constitutional, not narrative.

Relationship with T4BS and Singular Strategy

T4BS – Custodian of the philosophical and ethical foundation

Talent For a Better Society (T4BS) develops and protects the humanist, epistemological and ethical basis of the HCE.
It does not provide services to companies, does not certify, and does not act commercially.
Its role is to safeguard meaning, dignity and conceptual integrity.

HCE – The open framework

The HCE translates that foundation into organizational architecture, standards, principles and design criteria.
Nobody owns the HCE; it is a public good.

Singular Strategy – One of the consultancies applying the framework

Singular Strategy (Singular) is an independent firm that applies the HCE in real organizations.
It does not represent T4BS and does not own the framework.
Other consultancies may adopt the HCE freely under the same conditions.

Download the HCE Standard (Draft v0.1)

This draft contains the full conceptual structure of the Human-Centered Enterprise:

– diagnosis of the current environment,
– philosophical and epistemological foundations,
– organizational architecture,
– augmented humans and cognitive teams,
– ethics and cognitive governance,
– purpose and evolutionary constitution,
– sustainability and long-term evolution.

The document is open for review and is not a final version.

Peer Review: contribute to the evolution of the framework

The HCE is intentionally open and interdisciplinary.
Feedback is invited from experts in:

– organizational design,
– cognitive sciences,
– ethics and philosophy,
– AI and augmentation technologies,
– neurodiversity and human development,
– strategy and systems theory.

We welcome critique, refinement and proposals.