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Day one: learn the place before you ask the questions

Tomás starts as an enterprise architect at a publicly owned energy utility. He's handed an org chart, a list of 140 systems and a backlog, and none of it explains the place. The film shows a way of looking: an organisation in layers, from why it exists down to what runs it.

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Take it apart, then make the call

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Who it serves, and how it pays

Edison's customers wanted light, not electricity. Who pays, who uses and who decides, and a canvas for each.

5 min · Pause and think · The map before the data

  1. 1Day one
  2. 2Who it serves, and how it pays
  3. 3Why it moves
  4. 4What it must be able to do
  5. 5How value reaches people
  6. 6Who does it, and where meaning changes
  7. 7Today, and where it's going
  8. 8Now the questions appear
  9. 9Rules with a home
  10. 10When strategy moves
  11. 11A map people and agents can read