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An organization that remembers

The problem

Organizations preserve documents more reliably than they preserve the context, assumptions, judgments, and outcomes surrounding decisions. What was decided survives; why it was decided does not.

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Framework

Evidence
Judgment
Decision
Action
Outcome
Memory
returns to Evidence

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Practical implications

  • Treat decisions as first-class records — evidence, alternatives, rationale, and confidence — not only their outcomes.
  • Link each decision to the evidence it rested on, so the reasoning can be re-entered later.
  • Design for retrieval at the moment a similar decision recurs, not for archival.

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