What This Is
Most enterprise technology conversations start in the wrong place. They start with the tool, the vendor, the platform, or the budget. They rarely start with the harder question underneath: whether the way the enterprise is organized around technology is actually serving it.
Systemic Inflections is about that harder question.
Each post examines a moment where enterprise information technology strategy, organizational design, and business performance intersect — the decisions that look like technology choices but are really structural ones, and the assumptions that get carried forward long after the conditions that created them have changed. Enterprise information decisions should be designed for the future, not inherited from the past. That’s what this is about.
Who It’s For
If you’re responsible for enterprise technology strategy — or advising someone who is — this is written for you. There are no vendor affiliations here, no sponsored positions, and no interest in telling you what you want to hear. The questions this publication asks don’t always have clean answers. But they’re worth asking carefully.
About the Author
Charlie Martin has spent four decades at the intersection of enterprise technology and organizational performance — leading large-scale transformation programs, building professional services practices, and advising clients across financial services, manufacturing, retail, and energy. A US Navy veteran and nuclear-trained submarine officer, he brings a discipline-first perspective to complex technology and organizational challenges.
He is currently an Executive DBA candidate at Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, where his research examines the structural and economic dynamics of enterprise information technology externalization — work that informs the analytical perspective throughout this publication.
