The Metric Substitution Principle: Why Organisations That Measured Everything Gradually Lost Their Structural Orientation · R2049 · Structural Reconstructions

Intro

This structural reconstruction examines how data-driven management, KPI culture, dashboard governance, organisational diagnostics, systems thinking, leadership, organisational resilience, strategic decision-making, organisational learning and adaptive organisations evolved during the transformation era of the 2020s and 2030s. Rather than interpreting measurement as a neutral management instrument, this reconstruction analyses how increasingly sophisticated measurement systems gradually replaced direct structural perception. Looking back from 2049, this recurring mechanism became known as the Metric Substitution Principle, one of the foundational explanatory laws within the emerging science of Structural Reconstructions.

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