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Practical, transparent work on how value is created, transformed and lost. Every work can be read without an account.

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Methodology Papers

Value Ownership Without Hierarchy: The Æilus Role and Process Model

In functional hierarchies every unit owns a process, but no one owns the value flow that crosses units and is realized at the receiving actor. This paper, written for managers, product and engineering leaders and operations, presents the Æilus v2.0 role and process model as a way to make value ownership explicit without adding command layers. It sets out the six roles, the mandatory process groups and events, an artifact allocation per role, an adoption path, and the risks of role inflation, bureaucracy and value theatre with their safeguards.

value ownershipÆilus rolesValue Transformer OwnerValue System OwnerFlow Owneroperating cycleartifacts and reportsvalue theatre
Victor Bolshakov · 1 Oct 2026Value +60
Theoretical Research

AI as a Value Transformer, Not an Employee: Placing AI in Organisational Value Flows

Organisations usually measure AI as a digital employee: tasks completed and headcount avoided. This paper shows, from Value Management Theory, why that frame measures AI where it looks strongest and hides rework and anti-value on the receiver side. It gives managers and AI programme leads a way to place AI as a transformer role in a value system, name it, draw it in a Value System Schema and measure it where its output is consumed.

AI adoptionvalue transformerplanned and realized valueanti-valuereceiver-side metricsValue System SchemaVMTÆilus
Victor Bolshakov · 1 Oct 2026Not evaluated yet
Theoretical Research

Why Leadership Decisions Destroy Business Value: Local Optimization and Hidden Anti-Value

Many organisations report green indicators while their long-term capacity to deliver value erodes. This paper, written for leaders and strategy, product and operations managers, explains through the Theory of Value Management why decisions that are rational within KPI frames destroy value, and how the resulting anti-value stays hidden. It offers a four-step value-based decision model and illustrates it with hypothetical scenarios.

leadership decisionsanti-valuelocal optimizationvalue flowsefficiencydecision modelVMTÆilus
Victor Bolshakov · 1 Oct 2026Not evaluated yet

Aeilus Practices Catalogue

Practical ways of working with value, linked to the Æilus methodology. The catalogue is being prepared.

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