Field notes
Notes from inside complex systems.
Practical thinking on operating architecture, acquisition integration, product and industrial execution, organizational design, and AI that earns its place.
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Acquisition Integration
Why one hundred business-unit canvases may be exactly the right amount of work
The point is not to create one hundred presentations. It is to build a comparable model of how every acquired unit creates, delivers, and captures value.
Read note →Operating Architecture
The structural problem hiding behind poor communication
Communication fails predictably when authority, interfaces, information requirements, and escalation paths were never designed.
Read note →AI & Transformation
AI should strengthen institutional memory, not create technology theater
Useful AI changes how the organization remembers, decides, coordinates, and reuses what it already knows.
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