Is the autonomous company the wrong question?
An autonomous company describes a way of organizing work. It does not tell us whether that work creates value.
The LoreTech journal
The essays.
Two questions in active development. Other drafts and research questions remain in the queue.
Active research
In development
These are the two essays we are working on now.
What is left for humans when machines do the work?
Automation changes tasks. What happens to judgment, authority, and the value people receive from their work is still a choice.
Not in active development
Working drafts
Questions we may return to; their essays are not being developed now.
What still doesn’t exist for reasons that no longer do?
Revisit possibilities once ruled out by constraints that may no longer apply.
When ideas become abundant, evidence becomes scarce
How to close the gap between an appealing proposal and a viable activity.
Not yet in development
On the research list
A question to return to after the current essays.
Markets and coordination
On the research list
Question in queue
Can we design a market that doesn’t exist yet?
Some needs remain unserved because the people, knowledge, and resources involved have no way to coordinate around them.
What we would need to learn
What would need to be coordinated, by whom, and what evidence would show that a new market is taking shape?