Techonomics: The Founding Assumptions

Techonomics is a framework – a worldview – that seeks to bring understanding to the observations of chaos in the economy.  Every framework needs foundational assumptions upon which to stand. Techonomics fundamental assumptions are simple: 1) throughout history, the amount of information is constantly on the rise, and 2) it is competition that motivates healthy organizations to embrace best practices.  Further consideration of these assumptions reveals that #1 is always true short of a major worldwide catastrophe and #2 is true for an observable subset of all organizations (that is, all organizations are not healthy and even healthy organizations may not always be motivated by competition, like monopolies).   From these assumptions,  a worldview for observing organizational change can be developed and applied to the major trends that have and are driving our society and economy.Lee Martin – Chairman