The parts of an organization are visible. The form they produce is not.

A flame, a vortex, a storm: forms that exist because of a transformation they sustain, and end when it stops.

Palmsight tests the hypothesis that an organization is a form of this kind, naturally generated and sustained by a transformation of talent, resources and demand into coordinated action and value.

Same parts, different organization.
Different parts, same organization.

Why physics

Physics understands forms of this kind in depth.

It establishes which relations hold among their parts, with tested mechanisms, measured magnitudes and known ways of breaking down. In a natural reference system those relations are not stipulated one at a time; they fit one another, so they can be tested together, and how the reference system breaks proposes where a regime can break before any organization has been observed breaking there.

If this is right,

• transitions could be recognized as they approach, not named after they happen;
• the gap between declared strategy and what an organization actually pursues becomes measurable;
• it becomes possible to explain why organizations in the same environment reach different opportunities;
• organizations become comparable by the form of the transformation they sustain, not only by their size.

How it is built

• One construct, the organizational regime.
• Four coupled dimensions: field, structure, energetics, context.
• A candidate mechanism for how an element comes to matter.
• Relations from physics, transferred one at a time, each retained, adapted or rejected on evidence.

Stated so that it can be wrong.

Each relation carries the evidence that would reject it, and every failure leaves a result.