The corporate pyramid contracts
Machine cognition reduces the human-bandwidth and coordination constraints that created many intermediate organizational layers.
Organizations
How does organizational structure change when machine cognition can absorb a growing share of analysis and coordination while people remain concentrated around objective authority, judgment, accountability and relationships?
The architecture of the firm is changing.
The undertaking becomes the organizing unit
People, machine capacity and physical resources can be assembled around specific objectives and reconstituted as those objectives change.
Institutional continuity moves into architecture
A fluid institution still requires persistent purpose, authority and control as its operating structure changes around the undertakings it chooses to pursue.
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