The Transformation Management Institute
Advancing the scientific study of interpretation in human and artificial systems
Coordination depends on shared understanding.
Shared understanding is often assumed rather than secured. TMI investigates how decisions acquire meaning inside institutions and what happens when that meaning loses portability. What is typically described as miscommunication or resistance is frequently structural instability in the conditions of interpretation.
The Conceptual Terrain in the Age of AI
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The Scientific Domain
Where interpretive science meets biology, psychology, law, management, and AI, and where it breaks new ground.
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Phenomena of Interpretation
The recurring forces that shape alignment, conflict, stability, and change across systems.
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Canonical Definitions
The structural language that makes interpretive analysis possible.
Transformation follows constraint.
A system persists over time by moving through the transitions it can maintain and eliminating those it cannot.
What continues is the structure that remains.
Humans can defer elimination long enough to evaluate these transitions and coordinate action.
The Transformation Management Institute studies the conditions under which that evaluation governs outcomes.
From the TMI Research Library
Featured Publications
El Lissitzky, Proun 19D, 1922.
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Featured with Artificial Intelligence in Meaning Systems as governance under rotation: multiple frames coexist, and interpretation shifts as the system exceeds any single viewpoint.
Monograph C1
Artificial Intelligence in Meaning Systems
Responding to the Crisis of Machine-Generated Meaning
November 2025
This paper explains why AI creates mistrust even when outputs look correct. It shows how machine mediation changes judgment and accountability, not just results. Read this if technical fixes don’t explain the confusion, hesitation, or conflict you’re seeing around AI.
Hilma af Klint, The Swan (No. 17, Group IX/SU), 1915.
© The Hilma af Klint Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Featured with The Scientific Lineage of Meaning as converging inheritance: separate forms approach, mirror, and resolve into a shared coherence without losing distinction.
Monograph A3
The Scientific Lineage of Meaning
October 2025
This paper traces the discoveries that shaped how humans decide what counts as real, true, and credible. It shows why many fields explained parts of meaning, but left the full problem unsolved. Read this if you want to know why “meaning” is everywhere, yet still hard to explain.
Transformation Management
Governs how decisions move through organizations and whether their meaning remains intact across people, processes, technologies, and automated systems. It treats alignment as a structural condition that must be designed, not assumed, as institutions evolve.
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AN ORGANIZATION CANNOT BECOME ITSELF UNTIL IT KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS.
Transformation Management Institute | Established 2025