Principlev1

Systematically collect information from outside existing

Systematically collect information from outside existing schema filters—customers who left, growing competitors, adjacent industries—to detect schema obsolescence.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from goals filtering relevance (Goals as Perceptual Filters), automatic pattern perception with confirmation bias (Automatic Pattern Perception), and belief perseverance (Belief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence). Schemas filter out contradicting information, requiring deliberate external scanning.

Source Lessons

L-1630

Schema evolution in organizations

Organizations must update their schemas as the environment changes — but most fail to do so until a crisis forces the update. The same mechanisms that make schemas useful (they simplify decision-making by filtering information) make them resistant to change (they filter out the very information that would reveal their obsolescence). Deliberate schema evolution requires practices that counteract this natural resistance.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomGoals as Perceptual Filters AxiomBelief Perseverance Against Contradictory Evidence AxiomAutomatic Pattern Perception

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