Optimized for Yesterday: Why Organizations Slow Down When Execution Becomes Abundant - Softcover

Florschuetz, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798997125905

Publisher: Project Intent, 2026

Synopsis

Your teams are working harder than ever. Your customers haven't seen a product update in months.

An internal audit of forty strategic initiatives inside a global technology enterprise revealed something most leaders already feel but can't articulate: only 18 days of actual work were buried inside 242 days of waiting for permission. Eighty-five percent of the timeline wasn't building. It was aligning.

The problem isn't your people. It's your operating system.

Optimized for Yesterday is about what happens when execution becomes abundant but your organization is still engineered for scarcity. It explains why enterprises that move at the speed of software internally remain completely motionless in the market—and provides a concrete architectural framework for leaders ready to close the gap between intent and evidence.

Inside this book, you'll discover:

• The True Bottleneck: Why decision latency—not technical capacity—is the defining constraint of the modern enterprise.


• The Coupling Trap: How tightly coupled systems silently dictate your org chart, your meeting cadence, and your velocity.


• The Amplified Sovereign: An execution model that compresses cross-functional delivery loops into high-leverage individuals.


• The Predictive Funding Deficit: Why your annual budget cycle guarantees you'll fund the wrong thing for a year.


• Bounded Governance: How to replace manual review boards with system-enforced automated perimeters that are both faster and safer.

This book is for CTOs, CFOs, VPs of Engineering, and enterprise leaders who know their organizations are capable of extraordinary work—and are tired of watching that capability disappear into the friction of their own structure.

"The conference room protects us from mistakes. It also protects us from reality."

Alan Florschuetz draws on more than three decades of technology leadership, platform engineering, and enterprise transformation to diagnose the invisible gravity that holds modern organizations in place—and design the operating system that finally lets them move.

Edition details

• Publisher: Project Intent
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798997125905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107