How fast operational knowledge updates and spreads. The speed of organizational learning in the wild.
INSTANT VS GENERATIONAL
Learning happens continuously. Insights propagate instantly. The organization's collective intelligence updates in real-time. What works spreads. What doesn't, dies.
Knowledge passes through apprenticeship. Best practices take years to spread. Learning happens when people retire and new ones bring different assumptions.
Knowledge velocity is the clock speed of adaptation.How fast the organization can recognize "this works better" and make it the new standard determines how fast it can evolve.
AI is compressing knowledge velocity timescales. What used to take months of analysis now takes minutes. Organizations that can't absorb and act on insights quickly will be outpaced by those that can.
The gap between high and low knowledge velocity organizations is widening. Those stuck at 7-10 will fall further behind as field-state competitors learn faster and faster.
Insight to action in field-state orgs
Insight to action in transition orgs
Insight to action in particle orgs
Knowledge updates in days. Research to production in weeks.
A/B tests inform decisions in real-time. Algorithms learn continuously.
Apprenticeship model. Best practices take decades to spread.
Policy knowledge trapped in bureaucratic silos. Updates are generational.