People adopt new tech… but inside their existing silos. Using old workflows. Following old boundaries. New tech promises an end‑to‑end solution. It spans silos. It unifies data. It requires painful organizational change. But it doesn’t replace the legacy system overnight. For years, both systems coexist. The old system still dominates communication, roles, incentives, and thinking. People are trained on the interface, but not on how their jobs must evolve. The “end‑to‑end” solution? It’s adopted piece by piece, pulled back into silos, until it mirrors the fragmented organization it was meant to transform. Conway’s Law wins. The system still reflects the organization’s communication patterns, even when the tech is new. Transformation doesn’t move at the speed of technology. It moves at the speed of organizational change. -----------
This resonates a lot. I’ve seen the same pattern with AI systems — the design may be end-to-end, but once deployed it bends to existing silos, workflows, and incentives. That’s where fallback logic and explainability become critical: not just for technical resilience, but for helping organizations bridge the gap between 'how the system was built' and 'how it’s actually used.' Transformation succeeds less at the speed of models, more at the speed of organizational absorption.
Technology may outpace silos, but real transformation only happens when culture evolves alongside systems.
أبو سيف ⚔️ Technology alone doesn’t transform. It’s just a tool placed in the hands of a mind not yet engineered. What you’ve described is Conway’s Law in action: the organization swallows any new tech and reshapes it in its old image… unless change is designed into culture, roles, and structures. In HAK1M ™️ we call this: 🔹 Engineering thought before building growth. 🔹 The compass before the map. The solution is not about inserting an “End-to-End” tool, but about resetting the “End-to-Mind”: how people think, how teams are built, and how silos are broken before code is broken. True transformation doesn’t move at the speed of technology… it moves at the speed of organizational capacity for change. #التحول_الرقمي #هندسة_الفكر #عمارة_النمو #OrganizationalChange #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #HAK1M #EndToEnd
People adopt new tech, but inside their workflows it’s the same old slop dressed up in a shiny UI.”
This is a powerful and insightful summary of why digital transformations so often fail. Technology itself is usually the easy part; the real challenge lies in changing people, processes, and organizational culture. I've seen this pattern repeatedly: a shiny new "end-to-end" platform gets implemented, but departments adapt it to fit their old siloed KPIs, and the technology never gets a chance to shine. It’s a crucial reminder that any tech rollout must be accompanied by a parallel, often more difficult, organizational change program—one that creates a new ecosystem of communication, incentives, and roles. Until we address that, we’re just building a newer, shinier silo. Conway’s Law never lies.
Well said, Andrejs New tools can be added fast, but real change takes time. If roles and habits stay the same, systems fall back into old ways. Progress comes when people adjust how they work with the technology.
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1moLove this Andrejs! 👌 Training sessions explain the “how,” never the “why,” coz that bit hurts. Lol! :/ May God bless you with pure happiness. Have an awesome weekend! 😎🙏💖✌️✨️