Secondary Effects
New organisational capabilities that naturally emerge when strategy exists as structured infrastructure (e.g., intelligent org design, strategy-linked financial planning, dynamic AI governance). (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 13)
Why it matters
Secondary effects are not features designed into the system. They are capabilities that emerge naturally once strategy exists as a rich, typed, queryable, and continuously updated layer. Other organisational functions can now attach to strategy the way applications attach to an operating system — org design, financial planning, AI tool governance, external advisor access all become strategy-aware by default.
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