Field Notes

Dispatches from the vault

Short pieces and cartoons from the making of the book — first posted on LinkedIn, collected here so they don’t scroll away.

Six-panel cartoon strip about the Gonglomerate: a definition, a profitable but stuck company, silos blaming each other, AI sold as a fix-everything bottle, a Gonglomerate checklist, and the book’s title panel.

June 2026

Gonglomerate — where stagnation pays dividends

Only 0.5% of major projects hit cost, time and benefits. The standard medicines are decades old — and now comes more AI. We gave the patient a name.

Conference infographic: Corporate Consilience — Operationalizing Systems Thinking in Enterprise Transformations in the AI Era, ISSS 2026, 70th anniversary conference, Cyprus. It maps the inflection, the construct, what it unlocks and the thinkers the paper draws on, from Flyvbjerg and Ashby to Taleb and Derrida.

June 2026

Theoretical background for the book

The theory behind the book: Kimmo’s paper Corporate Consilience, now published by the ISSS. Free PDF, the argument in brief, and where each idea lives in the book.

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Dispatches from the vault

Gonglomerate — where stagnation pays dividends

Theoretical background for the book

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