The most dangerous state in codification as a practice is not absence. It is the standard that was accurate six months ago and hasn't been touched since. Teams that have done the work of codification …
Judgment at Scale Is a Codification Problem
The most common codification mistake isn't refusing to write things down. It is writing down the wrong thing. Teams ask their experienced people to document how they make decisions. Those people …
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The Codification Advantage
Your competitors are using the same models you are. Probably the same tools too. If you are waiting for a better AI to give you an edge, you are waiting for something that will arrive for everyone …
Integration Is the Skill AI Can’t Replicate
The easy prediction, at the start of this AI cycle, was that AI would take the specialist jobs first. The repetitive ones, the narrow ones. The prediction has a partial truth in it: AI is eroding the …
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The T-Shaped Organisation
Most organisations are built around the specialist's logic: hire the best person for each function, give each function clear ownership, coordinate handoffs at the boundaries. The org chart is a map of …
The T-Shaped Advantage
The usual case for t-shaped skills is made in terms of optionality: the more domains you know something about, the more flexible you are, the more roles are available to you. This is true but not the …