The Framework Outlived the Manual
The ITIL binders were heavy enough to prop open a door, and most of that paper existed to look thorough. Length reads as rigor. The useful part fit on a whiteboard the entire time.
What decades spent inside complex organizations teaches about leadership, technology, operational judgment, and the patterns that repeat across systems no matter how often we pretend they are new.
The ITIL binders were heavy enough to prop open a door, and most of that paper existed to look thorough. Length reads as rigor. The useful part fit on a whiteboard the entire time.
The industry spent a decade treating institutional memory as overhead. A billion job postings later, the data points the other way—and the mechanism is the part nobody is naming: AI made judgment the scarce resource.