Welcome!

Welcome to the English home page of the Household Framework Organization. This page provides general information on what the HHFW is and provides the overall sitemap to the different parts of the organization covering weblogs, wikis, forums, software downloads, documentation and much more.

What is "it"? The HHFW is a framework for maturing a household and integrating it in a fully connected world. In practical sentences:

To save a household time and money by providing a framework for making choices and defining and improving all process areas within a household: managing operational aspects, contact management, logistics and financial processes. Not as islands on their own but within an integrated framework driven by the same household goals.
To enable improvement within households to e.g. create new household revenue streams by introducing goals and household projects.
And once households have processes and share the same terminology... to integrate household processes and assets with other households, companies, organizations, governments and every other entity that plays a role in the lifecycle of a household.

The HHFW is not a software application or a collection of content (e.g. lifetips), it provides an overall overview of the different components and provides standards for future integration of these components. It will contain goals and requirements for households.

The HHFW website acts as an enabler for companies, organizations and individuals for delivering solutions for the different components. It provides the alpha node for the framework itself and provides a meeting place for the community.

The HHFW organization creates and manages the framework. They provide standard blocks and rules and provide a directory of components. They prioritize and plan the different components. They make sure that the way ahead consists of putting puzzle pieces together and prevents unneeded investment in conflicting components. They provide goals and requirements from the viewpoint of a household. The organization will consist of of representatives of companies from various sectors, governments, educational institutes (group dynamics, psychology, economics) and organizations (standardization).

The HHFW organization board communicates with suppliers, government, companies, press and governs the overall movement. They provide communication and facilitate funding where needed.

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HHFW live

24 Oct 2008

The english website front end has been put live with a small set of background information

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The walk

Humans start walking without having an idea why they start walking. Humans are walking but are not even aware of which street they are walking in. They are not aware if they walk fast or slow. They are not aware there is an actual street with an end. Crossroads are traumatic events since it gives a slight awareness of the existence of roads. They run their lives like tourists in a new unknown city: just randomly walk. They do not realize there is a city and a city map. Only during the walk households become aware of the roads but they don't possess the tools and framework which can make them change directions. It's too complex to first start mapping the complete city. Humans can only consciously change directions if they are aware of the concept of direction and to set goals and have the items to help them achieving these goals. Humans are not helped with individual pieces of maps or unquantified vague emotion based guidance. To travel you need the full map to make decisions where you want to go and you often need some kind of transportation. That's simple but still it is not there (yet).

The steps

Homo sapiens distinguish themselves from other members within the Hominidae group in that they are able to use advanced items to cope with future situations. These items can be tools (e.g. to write or to make fire) but can also consist of agreements on working. Humans often group together to achieve goals or set new goals for a group as a whole. These goals are not always "functional" but can consist of a mixture of surviving, fun or economic goals often depending on the specific group.

Larger groups started using this aspect of humans by modelling it and implementing it consciously. E.g. by using tools to improve processes, to use processes to be more efficient, to actual define goals, metrics, projects, targets, actions and to describe the processes that were actually taking place.
Smaller groups, like households, have adopted a small set of tools but have not yet made this next step in process improvement and use of frameworks. They are not aware yet of the existence of frameworks. groups is a scalable concept, it is a line from 1 person to all persons on earth and in between we define the concept of groups, many of the processes and aspects however are also scalable, from big to small and from small to big, they can not be seen as belonging to a specific size of a group.

The reasons that households do not have access to these advancements are:

no framework for households exists
either no tooling or very primitive tooling for the process areas in households exists
no organization exists to deliver the knowledge and tooling to the household

The group

Humans travel different roads in different groups. They start as part of a household, travel alone for a while and then again form part of a household. In other aspects they are part of a company or an organization which is traveling on a different road but in the same city.

Even when travelling alone, the individual is always part of "a household", since a household is also a 1 person group. The individual has e.g. a location and the individual has contacts. When inidividuals merge to form a new household these properties also merge as well as most assets.

Larger groups, companies and organizations, have a concept "maturity", which is linked to the fact that they have defined processes which enable them to constantly improve and react on future events.

They can be measured against other likewise groups because they are mature enough to provide metrics and are able to improve themselves to a certain level because they use frameworks.

These processes are not invented by the group itself, they are taken and measured against guidelines for each of the single process thus leading to standardization.
Side effects are standardization of roles within the organization, having advanced tooling to work within a predefined process, the definition of clear measured goals which can be traced to individual work items and so on.

Households are not yet aware of the progress of the larger groups and the impact it can and will have on their household. Households are not aware yet of most progress in the hundreds of sub entities within larger organizations and the professional solutions that are on the market. Thus having no goal let alone requirements for such a framework or such tooling.

The map

The HHFW is a logical next step in the professionalization of households. Ingredients are the Internet/WWW, The free software movement, standardization and integration organizations, Enterprise maturity software, processes and frameworks and the Household LAN usage growth.

The HHFW brings all of these concepts back to one overall concept combining, categorizing and layering all the hundreds of different puzzle pieces, which can be software, hardware, processes, standards, lifetips or plain knowledge.

The HHFW will accelerate the market demand for household products and services, it will integrate household processes with processes existing within companies and organizations (e.g. crm, hr or communications) thus leading to new innovative products and services, it will mature households to manage assets (incl. knowledge), time, money, health and operational aspects, it will create new markets occupied by households and will influence the lifes of every human since every humans is part of a household.