How decisions move through an organisation — and what technology does to that movement.
Frameworks and grounded analysis, not slogans — making decision systems visible, understandable, and governable. Plus the occasional dispatch from the computing frontier.
High-performing organisations share one trait: their decisions move clearly, coherently, and with consequence. Strategy expresses itself through the structure of those decisions; execution is their flow; AI and optimisation amplify whatever structure is already there. This is where that structure gets pulled apart and examined.
New writing on decision systems, AI, and the frontier. No cadence promises, no filler.
Decision Systems
How authority, sequencing, and consequence move through an organisation - or fail to.
The Auditor-General just published a year of decision-rights failures. It called them IT problems.
Report No. 42 reads like a technology report. It isn't, and that's the part that should worry you.
AI Didn't Create the Gap. It Removed the Slack.
Why AI initiatives stall after readiness - and why the cause is older than AI.
Where Strategy Fails Structurally
Why execution breaks down even when leadership, culture, and intent are strong
Transformation Is a Portfolio of Leverage
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 8 of 8
Governance as the Control of Flow
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 7 of 8
Decision Systems: The Metabolism of a Coherent Organisation
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 6 of 8
Designing for Coherence: The Architecture of Adaptive Organisations
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 5 of 8
Beyond Maturity: Measuring Organisational Coherence
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 4 of 8
Adaptive Transformation: From System Visibility to System Learning
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 3 of 8
Cost Out vs Efficiency and the Genesis of Work
A Systems Transformation Series - Article 2 of 8.
Quality ≠ Good
A system-wide approach to transformation - Article 1 of 8.
What If: Strategy as a Game
How AI, game theory, and strategy collide in a mini-game experiment.
Why Most Strategy Fails Before It Starts
Game theory isn't just for geopolitics.
Priorities vs Priority
Where are you spending your time?
Execution & Cost
Where work accumulates and value leaks - structure as the driver of throughput, delay, and rework.
Most Teams Do Not Have a Memory
Why the next useful layer of AI in professional services is not another chatbot
The Work Keeps Coming Back
Why decision structure, not capacity, determines throughput, and how a fourfold improvement was hiding in plain sight
Towards Human-Centric Productivity
The organisation as a system and the future of work.
AI & Organisations
What AI does to decision structure: it scales whatever is already there.
Your organisation is already being redesigned. You just haven't decided how.
Most organisations are being reshaped by AI one procurement decision at a time.
Gold and the Intersubjective Narrative
Gold, Zinc, and the Compounding Power of Belief
AI Model Collapse
A new "Malaise Era"?
Quantum & Optimisation
The computing frontier - quantum and optimisation experiments, and what's real now versus hype.
You're Not Paying for Qubits. You're Paying for Shots
How measurement economics dominate variational quantum algorithms
Before Quantum Advantage: Certifying Entanglement on Real Quantum Hardware
A Bell state experiment with CHSH violation, tomography, and error attribution on superconducting qubits
Testing Quantum Optimisation on a Classic Problem
What a Small Experiment Reveals About Hybrid Computing
Quantum Optimisation Before Quantum Advantage
Why quantum-inspired problem framing matters today, and what real quantum hardware still can’t do
Leadership & Culture
Authority and incentive, framed structurally - who can decide, who absorbs risk, who can stop work.
Field Notes
Experiments, side-projects, and archive pieces - the workbench, not the main event.
I’ve Started Writing Fictional Policy Documents and I Need You to Read Them
A fictional company. A real set of strategy, governance and policy documents.
Ontology, Taxonomy & Bureaucracy
The rise of the "Finanting Department"
TactiPath Update v1.1.0
Faster, Clearer, More Powerful Decisions
Black Opal
Continuing my quantum studies.
From the Archive: Sensing & Communication
A paper on how the boundary between sensing and communication keeps blurring.
From the Archive: Remember ChatGPT 3.5?
Early prompt-engineering experiments - with a little strategy work along the way.
Read in order
Ordered reading paths for returning readers.
Quantum and optimisation, tested on real hardware: from quantum-inspired framing to entanglement certification and the economics of measurement.
From system visibility to system learning to system coherence — a structural take on transformation.
Invented policy documents that fail in real, structural ways. Spot the defect.
This thinking, applied.
Sagentivum turns the structural method behind this writing into a diagnostic. WorkLattice reads an organisation's governing documents as one connected system and shows whether it can absorb the decisions its AI generates.