The Foundation Series
Three essays. One argument.
The opening chapters of the library. The first considers whose judgement shapes an important technology decision. The second considers the organisational conditions that make such judgement possible. The third considers the discipline through which judgement becomes decision. Best read in order.
- Foundation Essay IEssay18 min read
The Advisor and the Vendor
The decisive distinction in a serious technology decision is not between good and bad advice. It is between advice whose economic value depends on a particular outcome and advice whose value is independent of the outcome itself.
- Leadership
- Executive Decision Making
- Technology Strategy
- Foundation Essay IIResearch Essay20 min read
Knowledge Systems as Executive Infrastructure
The organisations that will benefit most from artificial intelligence are the ones that already treat their institutional knowledge as a first class asset. Model capability is catching up faster than any of us can absorb. Institutional memory is not.
- Knowledge Systems
- Organisation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Foundation Essay IIIEssay18 min read
The Discipline of Waiting One More Meeting
Most failed technology programmes do not originate from decisions made too late. They originate from decisions made too early, under pressure, without the one conversation that would have changed everything.
- Executive Decision Making
- Artificial Intelligence
- Technology Strategy
Research Essays
Longer arguments, fully sourced.
Research Essays are longer than the Foundation pieces and are published with a full apparatus of notes and references. Each is a self-contained study of a question that recurs in board rooms and in operating meetings.
- Research Essay 01Research Essay62 min read
Visual Abundance and Brand Authority
How generative AI reshapes the corporate production, control and public meaning of visual content.
When making an image stops being scarce, the harder question is no longer whether an organisation can produce another one. It is whether that image should exist, what purpose it serves and whether it strengthens the body of meaning for which the brand is responsible.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Digital Commerce
- Organisation
- Leadership
- Customer Experience
- Research Essay 02Research Essay42 min read
AI Visibility. What Can Be Measured and What Is Merely Sold
An evidence-based reading of AI Search, GEO and Local AI Visibility for multi-location brands
AI-mediated discovery is a real, probabilistic management problem, not a stable ranking system. What can be measured today, what a brand can actually influence, and where uncertainty is being sold as certainty are three different questions.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Technology Strategy
- Platform Strategy
- Digital Commerce
- Customer Experience
Long-form Publication
A sustained examination.
While many of the ideas explored throughout this library first appeared as essays, Decision Architecture develops them into a sustained examination of how organisations remain capable of making coherent decisions under conditions of technological acceleration.
Book
Decision Architecture
How Organisations Decide in an Age of Technological Acceleration
Decision Architecture explores the organisational conditions under which knowledge becomes coordinated action. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a technological phenomenon, it examines the structures through which institutions remain capable of judgement while technological capability continues to accelerate.
The publication extends many of the questions introduced throughout the Foundation Essays.
- Status
- Published
- Language
- Currently available in English
- Published by
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