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Execution Debt
When human systems and technical systems collide.
Execution Debt
Execution Debt describes emergent systemic risk that arises when Human Debt™ and Technical Debt interact under conditions of low decision visibility and organisational opacity.
Execution Debt cannot be reduced to people issues or engineering issues alone. It emerges from the interaction between degraded human systems and accumulated technical shortcuts.
Synthesised through long-term analysis of organisational complexity, system interactions, and execution failure patterns across large-scale socio-technical environments.
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