The Adaptive Operating System
A Practical Path to Operating Model Compression
Hi there,
Today, I’m writing more about a concept I’ve previously explored: operating model compression and its evolution towards an “adaptive” operating system. The benefit of AI technology is leverage, and business owners have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink many of their processes from scratch.
The Performance Gap
The economics tell a story that should keep traditional executives up at night: while OpenAI, Apple, and Meta are generating over $2 million in revenue per employee, the average Fortune 500 company limps along at $642,000, and though industries naturally differ in their capital intensity, this chasm has nothing to do with how many hours people work and everything to do with how that work flows through the organization.
The gap keeps widening because new AI companies are pulling away from traditional tech leaders by automating significant portions of production and review work that previously required armies of coordinators, reviewers, and managers to keep the ma…
