INCONTEXTABLE

INCONTEXTABLE

Organizational GLP-1
Metabolizing Data Ingestion
Apr 15 • Alex Cooper
What’s Not Included in Any Software Package
Four organizations and one practice that figured this out — and what they built instead.
Apr 7 • Alex Cooper
The Curse of Proxy Linearity
Knowledge doesn’t flow through predefined channels
Apr 2 • Alex Cooper

March 2026

The Linear Lie
Knowledge doesn’t move in straight lines.
Mar 31 • Alex Cooper
Knowledge Turns: The Metric We Never Built for Knowledge Work
The Organizational Entropy Problem Nobody Is Measuring
Mar 22 • Alex Cooper
AI Changes Everything But Not How You Think
Human Cognition Is Still the Constraint
Mar 17 • Alex Cooper
Move Fast and Who Knows What Breaks
Internet Speed gave us a decade to notice what was breaking. AI doesn't.
Mar 11 • Alex Cooper
The End of the Meaningless Acronym
CRM. ERP. HCM. LMS. SCM. KM. Named for the Aspiration, Built to the Limits of Technology at the Time
Mar 10 • Alex Cooper
The Risk That Doesn’t Have a Date
Your organization has a CISO. It doesn't have a KIO. That gap is about to get very expensive.
Mar 9 • Alex Cooper
The CHEF Model: How Business Information Systems Hide What Matters
The Unintended Consequences of Embedding Best Practices
Mar 4 • Alex Cooper
Friction is a Valuable Filter
Efficiency's Blind Spot
Mar 2 • Alex Cooper

February 2026

The Cost of Frictionlessness
Why the path of least resistance often leads to the industry floor
Feb 26 • Alex Cooper
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