Publications

Essays on organizations, decisions, and AI.

Articles published by the LensX team.

Vision & Artificial Intelligence

You have an expert with 30 years of experience. You have them making photocopies.

My name is Dominique Sodon. I hold a degree in finance and I have more than 25 years of experience in IT and in building complex systems…

Theory & Management

Organizational Entropy: What Physics Teaches Us About The Fate Of Companies

In 1944 the physicist Erwin Schrödinger asked a simple question: how do living organisms maintain their order in a universe that tends towards…

Strategic Steering

What The Number Does Not Say

A KPI at 43% means nothing. It is a bare fact. An orphaned data point. To speak, it needs a context. And that context is what most steering systems…

Assessment & Talent

When Everyone Looks Excellent: Assessing Talent In The Age Of AI

You receive hundreds of CVs for every position. They are all well written. They all foreground the right skills. They all seem to match the…

Strategy & AI

The Sovereignty Trap: When Treating AI As A Technology Becomes A Strategic Mistake

Digital sovereignty is a legitimate concept. Applying it indiscriminately to artificial intelligence could be one of the most costly strategic…

Strategic Steering

What Every Organization Has In Common

A CAC 40 company. A regional prefecture. A teaching hospital. A humanitarian NGO. A ministry. An agricultural cooperative. What do they have in…

Artificial Intelligence

The Text Processing Civilization

What does a leader actually do with their days? They read emails, write replies, analyse reports, draft notes, review…

Human Capital

The Job Description: The Most Underestimated Document In The World

In every organization there is one document everybody produces, nobody values, and which contains — if you know how to read it — the whole of…

Public Sector

The Other Balance Sheet: Why States Steer Their Money And Not Their Skills

A finance minister knows the outstanding public debt to the euro. They can tell you the average rate, the residual maturity, the share in foreign currency…

Theory & Management

The Execution Invariant

There is one structure every organization shares. Not a resemblance. Not an analogy. An identity. And that structure fits into a single…