When Governance Can No Longer See the Institution
There are moments in an institution when governance is still active, yet strangely disconnected from what the organisation is actually
Governance failure modes in mature administrative systems
Large governance systems often develop recurring patterns as they grow in complexity.
Some of these patterns resemble dynamics seen in
The tyranny of the implicit
Organisations maintain extensive formal structures: org and governance charts, RACI matrices, process maps, steering committees. These describe how work is
The Architecture of Forgot (full version)
This is the extended architectural version of The Architecture of Forgot.
The short version calls the phenomenon.
The full version
The Architecture of Forgot (short version)
Organisations don’t fail because they make bad decisions.
They fail because they cannot remember why they made them.
Forgot
The epistemic debt nobody tracks
The epistemic debt nobody tracks
Technical debt is visible.
Epistemic debt is not.
And yet epistemic debt determines where organisations
