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Institutions Think Through Relationships

It is tempting to imagine institutional intelligence as a property of what an organisation contains. We look for knowledgeable people, reliable databases, strong analytical teams, well-designed procedures, effective technologies and…

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Institutions Can Get Better at Becoming Different

Institutions are often judged by whether they can adapt when their environment changes, but adaptation is not a fixed property that an organisation simply possesses in greater or lesser quantity.…

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Understanding Collective Intelligence

For centuries, intelligence has been understood primarily as an individual characteristic. We naturally associate intelligence with the capacity of a person to observe the world, interpret information, solve problems and…

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Institutions Can Learn How They Change

Institutions often evaluate change by looking at what happened after it. A reform may be judged by whether a service improved, whether costs fell, whether a new organisational structure performed…

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Institutions Need a Memory of Change

Institutions usually preserve the visible results of major reforms better than they preserve the experience of reform itself. Years after a reorganisation, it may be easy to reconstruct the new…

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WP-G-L01-001 – Digital Twins for Governance

This new IDHUS Working Paper develops the first comprehensive theory of Institutional Cognitive Digital Twins, proposing a fundamental reconceptualisation of Digital Twins beyond their traditional role as computational representations of…

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Institutional Evolution Requires the Ability to Imagine Being Different

Institutions can become remarkably skilled at recognising what is wrong with their present arrangements while remaining surprisingly unable to imagine themselves organised in any fundamentally different way. Officials may describe…

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