MANAGING CHANGE

Principles of Infocracies

1. Data supersedes policy and personal judgment.


2. Databases have responsibility.


3. Database interpreters have authority.


4. Obedience is to the data.


5. Interpreters are bound by data and understand it.


6. Interpreters link to other databases and are subject to those
   nodes.


7. Infocratic cultures are non-defensive and data driven.


8. Infocracies are flatter and more egalitarian.


9. Feedback flows in all directions.


10. Fear of arbitrariness declines with trust in the data.

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Jim Clawson, “The New Infocracies and their Implications for Leadership,” Ivey Business Journal, May-June
2000

© James G. Clawson