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Concepts and Fundamentals of Institutional Cognition

Why Institutional Cognition Is More Than the Sum of Individual Minds

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When we describe an institution as capable of understanding a problem, remembering a past decision, detecting an emerging risk or making a judgement under uncertainty, it can sound as…

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Concepts and Fundamentals of Institutional Cognition

Institutions Think Through Relationships, Not Just People

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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…

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Concepts and Fundamentals of Institutional Cognition

How Can an Institution Know More Than Any One Person?

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Imagine asking a large public institution a relatively simple question: why does a particular process work the way it does? One person may know the legal history behind it. Another…

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Concepts and Fundamentals of Institutional Cognition

Where Does an Institution Really Exist?

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We talk about institutions as if they were things we could point to. A ministry occupies a building. A university has campuses. A hospital has wards, employees and equipment.…

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Research Articles

Interoperability Between Cognitive Institutions

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Modern governance depends increasingly upon the ability of institutions to work together across organisational, disciplinary and technological boundaries. Governments invest considerable effort in improving coordination, encouraging collaboration and expanding the…

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Policy Paper

Designing Institutional Attention

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Public institutions operate under an unavoidable condition of scarcity: they face more signals, demands, problems and potential priorities than they can examine with equal depth or sustain simultaneously. This is…

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Technology

Why AI Is Becoming Dramatically Less Expensive

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The history of technological progress is often told through stories of invention. New machines are developed, scientific breakthroughs are announced and innovative products capture public attention by demonstrating capabilities that…

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