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A Procedure Can Know Something Its Users Have Forgotten

Ask someone inside a long-established institution why a particular procedure exists and you may receive an unexpected answer: nobody is entirely sure. The procedure is followed carefully. Staff know when…

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WP-F-L01-001 – Measuring Institutional Cognition

This new Working Paper develops the General Framework for Measuring Institutional Cognition (GFMIC), the first comprehensive scientific architecture designed to transform institutional intelligence into an empirically observable and systematically measurable…

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Human–AI Cognitive Stress Test for Institutions

An institution can introduce an artificial intelligence system and quickly begin to describe its performance in familiar terms. The model is accurate a certain percentage of the time. It processes…

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Judgement Stress Test for Public Institutions

Institutions make many of their easiest decisions look like evidence of good judgement. When information is abundant, objectives are clear, specialists broadly agree and there is enough time to examine…

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Coordination Stress Test for Public Institutions

Institutions coordinate constantly. Information moves between teams, responsibilities pass from one unit to another, specialists combine different forms of expertise and decisions travel through layers of authority before becoming action.…

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How Institutions Think

For centuries, thinking has been regarded as one of the defining characteristics of individual human beings. We naturally associate cognition with the human mind: the capacity to perceive reality, interpret…

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Memory Stress Test

An institution can appear to have an excellent memory when the people who remember are available, the relevant documents are easy to retrieve and familiar routines continuously reconnect past experience…

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