Organizations are gaining access to new capabilities faster than many can absorb them. New tools, new models, and new systems can arrive faster than the work around them changes to take advantage of them.
One result is a familiar pattern: real investment, real deployment, and a performance number that doesn’t move the way anyone expected.
That gap, between what a capability makes possible and what an organization actually does differently, can emerge anywhere between the technology and the business outcome. Master Move studies what happens in between, without assuming where the constraint lies.
What We Study
What happens between capability and performance?
Work & Workflow
How tasks, processes, and roles change when a new capability arrives.
Human Capability & Judgment
What people still need to know, decide, and practice.
Organizational Conditions
How management, incentives, governance, and structure shape the outcome.
Performance & Value
How organizations determine whether a transformation actually worked.
"Every single investment that every company is making in AI right now, will be for naught if you don’t get the data right."
– Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi in Conversation with Master Move
A capability is what becomes possible. Performance is what an organization actually does with it. The two rarely arrive on the same timeline.
Current Research
The Capability-to-Performance Gap
AI is giving organizations powerful new capabilities. But deployment, usage, and even individual productivity gains don’t necessarily translate into changed organizational performance. Master Move is studying what happens in between: where value gets lost, what organizations change when new capabilities produce measurable results, and how leaders determine whether transformation is creating value.
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