SHIRPA Priniciples
A Governance Framework Built on Interdependent Conditions
The SHIRPA™ name itself embodies key principles upon which the framework is built.
SHIRPA Principles are decision-guiding rules that inform how programs are designed, operated, and evaluated.
“Each principle represents a necessary behavior for trust, predictability, and sustained performance. Weakness in any one principle creates negative pressure on the others.”
Key Principles Embodied in the Name
Security
How people feel about risk
The shared sense of safety and confidence enables decisive, consistent action.
Hygiene
How the organization operates
Operational discipline makes work clear, repeatable, flexible, and reliable.
Information
What good decisions are based on
The quality and integrity of information shape sound judgment and enable good choices.
Risk Posture Alignment
How the organization responds to risk
The ability to recognize when risk exceeds norms and then act deliberately.
Together, these principles create
a governance system that is
clear, adaptive, and resilient.
Security enables trust.
Hygiene enables execution.
Information enables judgment.
Alignment enables response.
SHIRPA exists to keep these domains continuously aligned as conditions change.