World Model
The structured, continuously updated, machine-readable representation of what the organisation believes, what it has chosen, what it is doing, and whether those three things are aligned. Not a separate system from the strategic infrastructure — it is that infrastructure understood as a graph of interconnected strategic entities maintained by both the consumption loop and self-populating source connectors. (Strategy as Infrastructure, Chs 5, 12, 19)
Why it matters
The world model is not a diagram of how the company thinks. It is a living, continuously self-updating representation. What makes it a world model rather than just a database is the relationships between elements — a connected, traversable graph where every element links to the elements it depends on, informs, contradicts, or validates. When a new signal arrives and the system asks 'what does this affect?', it traverses the graph and finds the answer.
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