Business is optimizing the wrong number.
€47,381,209,144▲ STILL COUNTING
welfare, meanwhile
50 years of evidence. 90 seconds. ↓
02 · THE DECOUPLINGWe didn't optimize welfare.
We didn't optimize welfare.
We optimized its proxy.
PROXY DECOUPLING CHARTAMBER = DELTA GATE
GDP per capita ↑
life satisfaction: flat3
03 · FIELD NOTESI spent 25 years inside this.
I spent 25 years inside this.
I took field notes.
NOTE 01 · EFFICIENCY
polishing a presentation about efficiency4
41 hoursIyer, Paper Tigers
NOTE 02 · DEFINITIONS
of enterprise KPIs have no owned definition5
73%Iyer, The Definition-Execution Fallacy
NOTE 03 · ADOPTION
on 80% of enterprise "data products"6
< 10 usersIyer, The Data Product Fallacy
NOTE 04 · THEATER
for projects that met zero objectives4
Celebration eventsIyer, Paper Tigers
04 · THE ACCELERANT
Then AI arrived.
And we are using it to make the theater faster.
05 · THE SYSTEM RE-ARCHITECTED
The opportunity is not AI in the business.
It is the business, re-architected.
RE-ARCHITECTURE TENETSLATTICE ORDER v1.0
- 01define enough
- 02govern definitions
- 03enforce at runtime
- 04automate the toil
- 05measure what matters
01
Read Essays →Diagnosis
Field essays on proxy metrics, AI craft & organizational theater.
02
Explore Projects →Projects
Four chapters from workshop builds to open standards.
03
Browse All Work →Body of Work
Complete catalog of monographs, tools, and standards.
04 · INTERACTIVE
Launch Live Tools →Live Toolkit
Interactive diagnostics, calculators, and AI readiness tools.
KARTIK· The Hague, Netherlands
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