THE SYSTEM BETWEEN

Tiago Vilas Boas

I redesign how strategy becomes execution.

Operating models, AI, content, workflows, governance and technology — designed as one system.

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Strategy
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Execution

01 / The problem

Organizations keep adding technology, channels, processes — and now AI — to work that was never designed to support them.

The result is often not transformation. It is faster complexity.

The interesting work happens between intent and outcome: in decisions, handoffs, content, intelligence, governance and the behaviours that make a system real.

The System Between is a body of working models and observations about what happens between strategy and execution inside complex organizations.

02 / A different question

Optimization improves the system you have.
Redesign questions the system itself.

OPTIMIZATION ASKS

How do we make approvals faster?

How can AI write the brief faster?

How do we connect another platform?

How do we train more people?

REDESIGN ASKS

Why does this decision require approval?

Why does this brief exist in this form?

Why does this work cross three platforms?

What should the system make unnecessary to learn?

04 / Patterns worth noticing

Failure Modes

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05 / Work reconstructed from experience

Redesigns

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GE Power / Kapost-era enterprise content operations

From platform deployment to organizational adoption

A global content operation moved beyond software rollout by designing enablement, certification, communications, support, visibility and leadership reporting as one adoption system.

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GE HealthCare content operations

Content operations as customer-experience infrastructure

Content operations were treated as the infrastructure behind customer experience: the system connecting contributors, governance, reuse, platforms and the experiences those platforms deliver.

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Anonymised / reconstructed enterprise pattern

The AI-enabled operating layer

AI changes execution only when the workflow, ownership, human contribution, escalation and governance around it are redesigned together.

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