Toyota did not win the manufacturing wars of the 1980s because it had a better factory. American plants ran comparable equipment, comparable tolerances, often the same suppliers. Toyota won because it redesigned who had permission to act. In the 1970s, Toyota gave line workers something most manufacturers would have considered reckless: the authority to stopContinue reading “Intelligence Is Cheap. Permission Still Has to Be Built by Hand.”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
Where scarcity goes when it leaves
A few weeks ago I wrote that boards are treating AI intelligence as a permanently scarce, permanently expensive input, and that this assumption is already cracking. A few people asked me a fair follow up question. If intelligence stops being the scarce thing, where does the scarcity actually go. It doesn’t just vanish. Someone alwaysContinue reading “Where scarcity goes when it leaves”
The First Permission Architecture
How Automated Underwriting Revealed the Real Bottleneck in Autonomous Systems The hardest problem with autonomous systems has never been only intelligence. It’s permission. A system can produce a decision in milliseconds. The harder question, the one that actually determines whether an organization can act on that decision, is whether anyone has redesigned liability, workflow, andContinue reading “The First Permission Architecture”
And Vijay Says... 