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Change Agility — Provenance

Layer Identity

The Flywheel — what the organization does. Seven pillars for building AI adoption capability through practice, complexity navigation, trust calibration, augmentation-first design, prototyping, behavioral science, and frontline ethics.

Intellectual Lineage

Tradition Key Source Contribution to This Layer
Behavioral Science Michie et al., Behaviour Change Wheel (2014); Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) COM-B model, intention-action gap, System 1/2 dynamics
Complexity Theory Snowden, Cynefin (1999); Stacey, Complex Responsive Processes (2001); Meadows, Thinking in Systems (2008) Probe-sense-respond, nonlinear systems, leverage points
Organizational Development Senge, The Fifth Discipline (1990); Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership (2010) Systems thinking, learning organizations, culture as shared assumptions
Design Thinking Brown, Change by Design (2009); Ries, The Lean Startup (2011) Prototyping, iteration, build-measure-learn
Trust Research Mayer, Davis & Schoorman, integrative model (1995); Edmondson, psychological safety (1999) ABI framework, undertrust/overtrust spectrum
Learning Science Dewey, Experience and Education (1938); Wenger, Communities of Practice (1998); Schön, The Reflective Practitioner (1983) Learning by doing, situated learning, knowing-in-action
Applied Ethics Aristotle, phronesis; Rest, four-component model (1986); Gebru et al., model cards (2019) Practical wisdom, ethical reasoning as skill, transparency tools

Gibbons Contributions

  • Four-Driver Diagnostic Model (Capability, Motivation, Trust, Opportunity) — applied across all 7 pillars
  • AI Mastery Matrix (6 dimensions × 4 levels) — Pillar 1
  • Undertrust/overtrust spectrum — Pillar 3
  • Augmentation-first sequencing — Pillar 4
  • Ethics as practiced capability (not compliance) — Pillar 7

Version

v1.0-beta · March 2026