ACF PLAYBOOK, FORTHCOMING

One frame, eight different grounds.

ACF Playbook is a collection of sector notebooks. Each one builds a recognisable fictional organisation and runs the full ACF® path on it, from the initial situation to vendor exit, naming the cards used at every step. The frame stays put, the context changes.

The organisations described are fictional and built for learning. None of them stands for an existing company.

See the 8 notebooksThe method
8
notebooks written
5
steps in the path
45
cards available
// The collection

8 notebooks written

Eight sectors, chosen for the diversity of their constraints: regulatory intensity, public exposure, operational criticality, dependency on a single vendor.

NOTEBOOK 01
Healthcare
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 02
Public administration
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 03
Banking
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 04
Air transport
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 05
Manufacturing
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 06
Energy
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NOTEBOOK 07
Telecoms
Written, forthcoming
NOTEBOOK 08
Human resources
Written, forthcoming
// Structure of a notebook

The path each notebook runs

A notebook does not summarise the standard, it executes it. The reader follows one organisation along the whole way, from the first observation to the day it takes back control of its vendor.

STEP 1The initial situation

What the organisation has already deployed, what it believes it controls, and what it cannot yet name.

STEP 2The delegated decision

What is actually delegated, at which autonomy level, and before whom the decision remains defensible.

STEP 3The frame set

The guardrails, the stopping points, the escalation thresholds and the person answerable.

STEP 4Running the agent

Supervision held over time, incidents, permission reviews and declared blind spots.

STEP 5Vendor exit

Degraded mode, holding the record, and the effective ability to change foundation.

// Rule of the collection

A fictional organisation, a real path

The case is built, the method is not. What transfers from one notebook to the next is not the story, it is the sequence of cards.

Recognisable

The organisation is precise enough for a reader of that sector to recognise it: volumes, constraints, decision chain.

Fictional

No notebook describes an existing company, and none claims to document a real practice.

Traceable

Every step names the toolkit cards used, so the path can be replayed on a real case.

// Two collections

Two collections, two regimes of evidence

The Playbook projects, ACF in Action observes. The distinction is explicit on both pages, and it is what protects the credibility of the second.

ACF Playbook
Projects the ACF path onto fictional cases
Builds recognisable organisations, not real ones
Runs the full path, from the initial situation to vendor exit
8 sector notebooks written, forthcoming
ACF in Action
Observes real companies and real mechanisms
Works exclusively from public sources
Never claims to know the internal arrangements of the organisations cited
18 publications, 9 teaching kits
Discover ACF in Action →

While the notebooks are in preparation

The frame the notebooks run is already available: 45 printable cards across three families and the toolkit Manual, free for teaching and non-profit use.

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