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Ch3The Golden Roof on a Shack
Applying sophisticated AI or digital tools to a line that lacks a solid data foundation. The technology works; the infrastructure beneath it cannot support the weight.
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
The handful of ideas the book keeps coming back to — and where each one is introduced.
CON-02
Ch3The Fragmentation Tax
The hidden cost of running 15+ disconnected systems on a single line: integration labour, rework, lost data, and the inability to change anything quickly. Every seam is a tax.
CON-03
Ch3The Software-Defined Assembly Line
A line whose behaviour is defined in software — a single data model — rather than hard-coded into each machine. Change the model; the line follows.
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Ch4Plan, Run, Prove
The three verbs of the assembly line operating system. Plan the Work (configure), Run the Work (execute with guidance), Prove the Work (capture evidence). Everything the line does falls into one of these.
CON-05
Ch5The Game Master
The reasoning layer above the specialist AI agents. Where individual agents each do one thing well, the game master sees the whole board — allocating tasks, resolving conflicts, and keeping the line moving.
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Ch2Socially Intelligent
An organisation becomes socially intelligent when human judgement and machine data stop being rivals and start reinforcing one another — the whole becoming smarter than people or technology could ever be alone.