IVA IDEAS & RESEARCH · AREA OF INQUIRY
Transformation & Operating Models
How work, systems, and operating models are designed and changed as AI capabilities expand.
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Design: Governance Is Decided Where Work Is Organized
Part 1 of 5. Why the most consequential AI governance decisions concern who does what, what gets automated and whose knowledge sets the boundary — and a worksheet for making them.
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Before You Build Another Thing: Six Design Traps That Lead to Overbuilt AI Systems
Part 1 of 3. Six predictable design traps that lead teams to overbuild agentic AI systems, the operational carrying cost of unearned complexity, and a diagnostic prompt for each trap.
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When the AI Problem Becomes an Organizational Capability
A research note on what AI visibility reveals about measurement, proprietary knowledge, and cross-functional adaptation when a technical-looking problem becomes an organizational capability.