Source Connector
A pipeline between an external system of record and the strategic infrastructure that reads, interprets, and translates operational data into structured strategic signals. Four types: development (codebase), financial (accounts), people (HR and audits), and document (knowledge repositories). (Strategy as Infrastructure, Ch 12)
Why it matters
Source connectors unify by a single principle: they read sources that are harder to politically manage than self-reported status updates. A status report can be optimistic. A financial transaction either landed or it didn’t. A capability assessment either shows the skill gap or it doesn’t. The power of the self-populating world model comes precisely from this honesty-by-nature property.
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