@kerimcanozcan
Marketing prof; co-author of "Dynamic Relationality Theory" and "Co-Creation Paradigm". Current projects: "Creative Transformation of Organizational Ecosystems" and "Machinic Life-Experience Ecosystems". https://drtbook.com
Coming next: 10B (board reframe: from pilot success → reterritorialization funding; why boards accidentally buy churn) and 10C (playbook: Two-Speed Innovation Plan—Line-of-Flight charter + stabilization backlog + repair/rollback discipline).
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Deterritorialization = organized loosening (new couplings/experiments). Reterritorialization = organized inhabitation (decision rights, interface constraints, auditability, exception rituals, repair loops, rollback readiness). Fund only escape → you buy churn.
📣Week 10 of my 52-week DRT into Action series is live: Deterritorialization / Reterritorialization. Innovation isn’t just “escape” (new tools, pilots). It’s making escape livable—so what you discover becomes repeatable practice. Read: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-1...
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Examples include twins as instruments (BMW + Omniverse; Siemens), autonomy philosophies (Waymo vs Wayve), and civic stewardship (Virtual Singapore). Coming next: 9B (board reframe: potentials + constraints + decisive moves) + 9C (portfolio review playbook).
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MLXE cuts help: L = lived potentials, E = current holdings, X = articulated scenarios/designs, M = enacted trials. The risk is “option theater” (lots of X) without disciplined M→L→E learning under explicit invariants.
Week 9 of my 52-week DRT into Action series is live: Virtual vs actual. Strategy isn’t just executing a plan—it’s governing a space of potentials + possibles in relation to what you currently hold stable as operational reality. Read: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-9...
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Coming next: 8B (board reframe: incident handling → event metabolism, incl. “event burial rate”) and 8C (playbook: Event Ledger + Reopen→Redesign→Re-stabilize; metrics: throughput vs burial, time-to-re-stabilize).
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Key idea: events have an afterlife. Closing the ticket ≠ closing the event. Real change happens when the rupture is metabolized into redesign across L/E/X/M (lived legitimacy, operational flows, commitments, buildable constraints).
Week 8 of my 52-week DRT into Action series is live: Events vs Initiatives. Many transformations “execute well” yet stay brittle because systems don’t reorganize around project plans—they reorganize around events (ruptures that force new meaning + obligations). drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-8...
Week 7 includes: 7A (concept), 7B (board reframe: from change mgmt → territory work), 7C (5-step Territory Design Sprint + identity-threat test; ship 1 ritual + 1 interface constraint).
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When copilots/agents speed up work, they also rewrite: who is answerable, what counts as valid evidence, and which promises are enforceable. If those shifts stay implicit, systems self-protect via workarounds, shadow approvals, and checkbox adoption—even with “green” dashboards.
Week 7 of my 52-week DRT into Action series is live. Core claim: many digital/AI transformations fail because we upgrade workflows + platforms, then call the remaining turbulence “culture.” In MLXE terms: we change E/M, but leave L/X underdesigned. Read: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-7...
Also this week: 6B (board reframe: “move fast” → “learn safely”; speed without invariants = drift financed) and 6C (Authorized-Change Playbook: invariants register, update classes, drift triggers, rollback drills, incident→learning).
Cases: TVA (modernization under reliability/equity constraints), DIGIT/eGov (local variation with stable public-service invariants), clinical agents (safe updates without silent edge-case harm). Same issue: make change legible + reversible.
Managerial primitives: Invariants (testable constraints that must not be violated) + Authorized transformations (what may change, with evidence, monitoring, rollback). If you can’t answer “what changed, why allowed, how reversed,” legitimacy collapses.
DRT into Action Week 6A—REAL #4: Legitimation (Gauge). In living systems, change never stops. The real choice is authorized change vs uncontrolled variation (drift discovered as outage/scandal/finding). Read & subscribe: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-6...
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👉DRT Week 5C—Playbook: Overlap Audit + Obstruction Log. Map 5 overlaps; for each, log obstruction, owner, repair candidate, regression test. Track: obstruction count, severity, repair throughput. drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-5...
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👉DRT Week 5B—Boardroom Reframe: stop treating ethics as documents; manage overlap failures like defects. Ask: where is the obligation instantiated, where does it drop, who pays? drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-5...
▪️Fix the obstructions: policy islands, interface bypasses, metric pressure, decision-right ambiguity, vendor boundary gaps.
▪️Embed constraints in interfaces, data use, decision rules, escalations, audit trails.
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📣Week 5A—Alignment Is Gluing.
▪️Principles fail at overlaps: personalization↔privacy, speed↔safety, vendor↔platform.
▪️Alignment = local commitments that stay consistent across overlaps.
▪️Make obligations travel.
Read & subscribe: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-5...
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👉Week 4C—The Commutativity Test + seam-repair protocol.
Compare two routes, expose the seam, repair via interface constraint, evidence rule, decision-rights trace, or time-scale rule. Track recurrence with a small instrument panel.
drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-4...
👉Week 4B—The risk story nobody models: non-commutativity. Fund coherence capacity (evidence rules, traces, semantics, rhythm reconciliation), not only models/data.
Board prompts inside: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-4b-the...
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Signals of a non-commuting seam: green metrics/red reality, “the model said…” accountability fog, automation amplifies contradiction.
Common flips: definition, value premise, decision rights, time scale.
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📣Week 4A—REAL #2: Epistemics (Category).
Not “more data,” but coherence: do representations commute across L/E/X/M so different routes land on the same meaning-for-action? If not, speed scales contradiction.
Read & subscribe: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-4...
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👉3C: Assemblage Quick-Map + Three-Edge Intervention. In 60 min: map 12 nodes/20 edges, pick 3 edges, define ripple effects, accountability surface, confirming signal. Details: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-3...
👉Coming 3B: From initiative tracking → assemblage reconfiguration. Board lenses: boundary, edge-leverage, accountability surface. Ask: are we funding an initiative—or a reconfiguration? drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-3...
Find leverage at the edges: decision travel, friction concentration, risk displacement, intensity amplifiers. If dashboards are green but escalations rise, it’s an edge problem—not a model problem.
📣DRT Week 3A—REAL #1: Reality (Assemblage). Don’t track “AI initiatives”; name the lived system you’re transforming. Unit test: “We connect ___ through ___ to produce ___.” Read & subscribe: drtblog.substack.com/p/drt-week-3...
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DRT Week 2C — Experience–Flow Alignment Audit (60 min). One page: boundary; 3 accelerated flows (E); 3 commitments (X); 2 role tensions (L); 2 interface changes (M). Track: friction, experience integrity, governance latency.
DRT Week 2B — From “ROI of AI” to governance of interaction fields. Use a two-timelines diagnostic; pair each green metric with concrete L/X answers (who’s responsible, what counts as evidence/commitment).