B-Series: Transformation Science
The B-Series contains applied scientific works published under the Transformation Science research program. These monographs examine coordinated change attempts as they unfold in real organizational settings.
Rather than offering techniques or prescriptions, the B-Series analyzes how transformation attempts behave under constraint. The monographs describe how experienced practitioners recognize emerging breakdowns, trace them to attempt-level conditions, and distinguish between surface friction and deeper structural failure modes.
Together, the B-Series establishes the Institute’s scientific account of transformation attempts as analyzable events rather than collections of isolated problems or execution errors.
→ View the Transformation Science Program
Applied Monographs
B1 · Emergence of Transformation Science
Why transformation efforts fail, and why common explanations miss the cause.
B2 · Practice of Transformation Science
How experienced practitioners identify breakdowns others overlook.
What becomes possible when people agree on what’s happening.
B4 · Temporal Behavior of Meaning Systems
Why meaning outlives usefulness, and how systems recognize completion.
A-Series: Foundations
Institute Charter
Meaning System Science
Scientific Lineage of Meaning
Physics of Becoming
Proportionism
General Theory of Interpretation
Forces & Dynamics of Interpretation
B-Series: Transformation Science
Emergence of Transformation Science
Practice of Transformation Science
Restoration of Meaning
Temporal Behavior of Meaning Systems
C-Series: Meaning-System Governance
AI as a Meaning System
Science as a Meaning System
Pop Culture as Meaning Systems
Discipline
Transformation Management
Transformation Breakdown Signatures
LDP-1.0
3E Standard™
3E Method™
Interpretation Field Studies
Institute
About the Institute
Research Programs
Responsible Use of AI
Research Library
Official Terminology
Citation Guidelines
Essential Reading
Anila Quayyum Agha, Intersections, 2014.
© Anila Quayyum Agha. Courtesy of the artist.
Featured with The Emergence of Transformation Science as structured visibility: pattern governs light, showing how order makes what is already present newly readable.
Monograph B1
The Emergence of Transformation Science
October 2025
This paper explains why transformation efforts fail even when people are capable and committed. It shows that breakdowns happen when understanding cannot keep pace with what is changing. Read this if transformation stalls despite visible effort.
Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations – Nature, 2019.
© Refik Anadol. Courtesy of the artist and Refik Anadol Studio.
Featured with The Practice of Transformation Science as disciplined sensing: high volume signals are organized into legible form without pretending the motion is simple.
Monograph B2
The Practice of Transformation Science
October 2025
This paper describes what experienced practitioners notice before problems become visible failures. It shows how early confusion can be detected without blaming people or personalities. Read this if you sense trouble early and struggle to name why.
Agnes Martin, The Islands, 1979.
© The Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Estate of Agnes Martin.
Featured with The Restoration of Meaning as quiet reconstruction: minimal structure, repeated with care, models how coherence returns through patience and restraint.
Monograph B3
The Restoration of Meaning
October 2025
This paper explains what changes when people can again agree on what is happening and what actions mean. It shows how progress returns after long periods of circular clarification. Read this if work feels trapped in explanation rather than forward movement.
Mark Bradford, Pickett’s Charge, 2017.
© Mark Bradford / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Featured alongside Temporal Behavior of Meaning Systems to reflect how accumulated structures persist across time, retaining legitimacy even as their explanatory capacity changes.
Monograph B4
Temporal Behavior of Meaning Systems
January 2026
This paper examines what happens after meaning is decided. It shows how explanations persist, why they can finish without being wrong, and how time—not failure—forces change. Read this if you’ve stayed in something that once made sense, and couldn’t explain why it no longer did.