Origin & Authorship
Canonical documentation of intellectual origin, authorship, and trademark ownership for foundational human-centred system frameworks.
This page exists to document the intellectual origin, formal definitions, development timeline, and primary evidence for the conceptual frameworks created by Duena Blomstrom.
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Human Debt™
Definition
Human Debt™ describes the organisational equivalent of technical debt — the accumulated execution risk that arises when human systems (behavioural norms, cognitive load, psychological safety, trust, accountability, and decision hygiene) degrade decision quality over time.
Origin
Human Debt™ was first articulated through Duena Blomstrom's independent essays and public writing on organisational risk, human systems, and decision-making under pressure. It has been discussed and analysed in external publications that recognise the concept and link it to organisational performance challenges.
Trademark Status
Human Debt™ is a registered UK word trademark owned by Duena Blomstrom. Registration number: UK00003535732, filed 22 September 2020, Classes: 35
Emotional Banking™
Definition
Emotional Banking™ is a framework describing how emotional interactions — safety, credibility, care, follow-through, and trust — accumulate over time as organisational value or risk.
Origin
Originally developed in the context of financial services and FinTech, Emotional Banking™ was later expanded into broader organisational systems analysis. External interviews and industry coverage have recognised Emotional Banking as Duena Blomstrom's early conceptual contribution.
Trademark Status
Emotional Banking™ is a registered UK word trademark owned by Duena Blomstrom. Registration number: UK00003210830, filed 04 February 2017, Classes: 35, 36, 41, 42
Empathy Architecture™
Definition
Empathy Architecture™ is a conceptual framework describing the deliberate design of systems, governance structures, rituals, and interaction models that embed emotional intelligence and empathic interaction principles into human-AI and socio-technical systems.
Origin
Empathy Architecture emerged through Duena Blomstrom's long-form writing on AI and humanity, human-in-the-loop systems, psychological safety, and organisational empathy.
Trademark Status
Empathy Architecture™ is a trademark with application pending, filed by Duena Blomstrom.
Execution Debt
Definition
Execution Debt describes emergent systemic risk arising when Human Debt™ and Technical Debt interact under conditions of low decision visibility and organisational opacity.
Origin
Execution Debt was synthesised through long-term analysis of organisational complexity, system interactions, and execution failure patterns across large-scale socio-technical environments.
Timeline of Concept Development
Canonical Evidence Sources
Interpretive Clarification
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