“Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.” Kyle Reese, The Terminator One of the common criticisms of executive teams that fail to achieve good outcomes is that they failed to see a problem that later crippled their organisation. Built into this criticism is an implicit assumption that executives can both see everything to which their organisation is exposed and can understand that data point in the context of every other one. Hindsight is a fine thing. Executive teams are not like Skynet’s CPU. They are collections of human beings and subject to human failings. It is, however, somewhat useful to imagine the executive team as a processor, sitting at the centre of an information system. This information system is built to an information architecture, which g...
Thoughts on strategy in a Digital Economy