Decisions > Slide Decks
By Todd Hassenfelt · July 22, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Decisions > Slide Decks
Momentum > Recurring Meetings looking backward
Key Highlights from both articles:
Information scarcity was the alibi. Once AI reduced that constraint, the real source of delay became much harder to ignore. In reality, better information only creates the opportunity for a decision.
Over time, many organizations quietly teach people that avoiding mistakes is more important than maintaining momentum, and the result is predictable. People become skilled at extending analysis, meetings become skilled at producing discussion, and teams become skilled at generating information.
AI can unintentionally amplify this dynamic because it makes it even easier to generate another report, model another scenario or test another assumption. All of those activities feel productive. None of them guarantees movement.
Most business processes are still treated as diagrams: boxes, arrows, approvals, handoffs, and exceptions. That’s how humans understand work. It’s not how adaptive systems optimize it.
Ontology is a formal model of what exists in a domain and how those things relate to one another. In enterprise terms, that means representing the company not as disconnected rows in databases or documents in repositories, but as a living structure of objects, relationships, permissions, workflows, and actions.
AI changes the speed of the loop. The larger the company, the more interactions it generates. The more interactions, the more feedback. The more feedback, the faster the optimization. This is the opposite of how most enterprise systems behave today.
When decisions move slowly, leaders often ask if they have enough information. The real questions are who owns the decision, who has authority to move when people still disagree and who’s expected to stand behind the outcome once there’s enough information. Yet many organizations are discovering that the decision itself is still moving at exactly the same speed.
AI is delivering on its promise. It’s also uncovering an uncomfortable truth that companies can no longer avoid.
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The hardest part of this transition may be cultural, not technical. Most companies don’t have the critical element: a formal model of themselves.
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