C³M (Change Cascade Chain Meta-Framework) is a meta-framework for understanding and governing complex, continuous organizational change. It was developed as a response to the SCALE factors that prevent scalability. It treats change as interconnected cascades rather than isolated initiatives, linking strategy to execution across human, operational, and digital systems. C³M explains why change succeeds or fails at the system level and is made executable through BASIC, the principles that translate the framework into practical, repeatable action. CIRCLE is a dynamic lens within C³M that visualizes and manages the flow of communication, information, risk, change, logistics, and effort at every node of a change.

[B] Burn Management

Actively monitors and manages operational burn across both human resources (cognitive load, fatigue, motivation, capacity) and organizational resources (time, capital, attention, tooling). Burn is treated as a leading indicator of systemic risk and change failure, not an after-the-fact outcome.

[A] Algorithmic Governance

Uses rules, metrics, thresholds, and decision logic, human- and machine-driven, to govern change, interventions, and risk dynamically. Algorithmic governance ensures consistency, transparency, prioritization, and adaptive control across complex change environments without relying solely on hierarchical oversight.

[S] Scalable, Accelerated, Sustainable Change

Designs change to move faster without breaking the system. Change must scale across teams and functions, accelerate learning and delivery, and remain sustainable over time; recognizing that continuous change is the steady state, not an exception.

[I] Intelligence

Integrates human judgment and automated systems into a shared intelligence loop. HiAi (Human-integrated Automation intelligence) focuses on feedback-driven learning, incentive alignment, behavioral fit, and co-evolution between people and machines to continuously improve performance, decisions, and outcomes.

[C] Change Cascade Chain

Models change as a cascading chain of dependencies, feedback loops, and second-order effects. Rather than managing isolated initiatives, C³M governs how changes propagate through alignment, behavior, technology, incentives, and operations where small failures or successes can compound system-wide.