Execution Visibility
See the Work Before You Redesign It.
Execution Visibility is a discipline for understanding how work creates value, builds capability, develops judgment, and holds accountability before redesigning it around AI.
The Problem
AI is accelerating work redesign faster than many organizations understand the work they're redesigning.
Most organizations have significant visibility into people, jobs, skills, and outcomes. What they can't see as clearly is the work itself—the decisions, handoffs, dependencies, judgment, and experiences that actually create value, build capability, and drive performance.
The Visibility Gap
We Can See
- personPeople
- workJobs
- psychology_altSkills
- speedPerformance
- paidCosts
We Struggle to See
- checklistTasks
- alt_routeDecisions
- swap_horizHandoffs
- psychologyJudgment
- trending_upCapability Formation
Four Enduring Lenses
Value Visibility
Where value is created, destroyed, or delayed.
Capability Visibility
How work builds skills, expertise, and future capability.
Judgment Visibility
Where human judgment is developed, exercised, and essential.
Accountability Visibility
Where decisions and accountability sit as work moves between humans and AI.
The Questions Leaders Can Answer
Where is value actually created?
Where can AI create meaningful leverage?
Which experiences build expertise and judgment?
How should work be divided between humans and AI?
Where should decision-making and accountability sit?
Execution Visibility in Practice
See
Map the work as it actually happens. Collect evidence.
Understand
Surface patterns, dependencies, and where value, capability, and judgment are created.
Decide
Make better tradeoffs about where humans, AI, and technology create the most value.
Redesign
Design work that creates more value while preserving and building human capability.
From Insight to Impact
Better AI Decisions
Stronger Capability
Clearer Accountability
Better Work Design
Sustainable Performance
Field Notes & Research
Field Note 004
The Work We Remove Is How We Learn to Think
Over the past couple of weeks since my last field note, I’ve been thinking about how I learned to do my own work.
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Field Note 003
Before You Redesign Work, Understand What It Creates
Organizations are racing to redesign work with AI. But before deciding what AI should do, leaders need to understand what work actually creates.
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Field Note 002
Every Function Has an AI Strategy. Who Owns the Work?
This week, I sat with a group of learning and transformation leaders to discuss how AI is changing capability development. One comment stayed with me.
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