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The Cybernetic Enterprise

The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization.

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The Cybernetic Enterprise

How to Build a Future-Ready Organization

The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization is your comprehensive operating system for navigating the next era of business transformation. If your company has adopted Agile and DevOps but still struggles to adapt at scale, fast teams, slow enterprise, this book is for you.

This is not another Agile, DevOps, or AI playbook in isolation. Instead, it introduces a unified cybernetic operating model, one designed for continuous learning, AI-augmented intelligence, and fast feedback loops across strategy, product, technology, and operations. You'll learn to sense, learn, and adapt at enterprise scale.


The book offers a layered framework, principles, practices, platform, outcomes, that guides you in building an enterprise designed for change, not just coping with it. Whether you are a CTO, CIO, enterprise architect, transformation coach, or team leader, this book offers the models and tools to break silos, align execution with strategy, and embed AI responsibly.


With forewords by Prof. Dr. Oliver Gilbert and Prof. Markus Dobbelfeld, this book bridges academic insight and industry experience, linking vision with execution across leadership, technology, and organizational design.


Why It’s Different
Most transformation efforts bolt new tools onto outdated structures. The Cybernetic Enterprise rebuilds the structure itself. It helps you design a feedback-driven, AI-augmented organization where learning compounds and change becomes a competitive advantage.


Who It’s For

  • Executives aligning strategy, investment, and outcomes

  • Architects and engineers scaling AI responsibly through platform thinking

  • Product managers, designers, coaches, and change agents seeking coherence across initiatives

What You’ll Be Able to Do

  • Build feedback loops into every layer of your organization

  • Align investment with outcome-based metrics

  • Accelerate AI adoption through platform engineering

  • Design autonomous, durable product teams

  • Create lightweight, principled governance that fosters experimentation

  • Assess and steer transformation efforts with structured diagnostics

Build the enterprise you want to work in. Shape the system you want to lead. Become the organization the future demands. Your cybernetic journey starts now.

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Foundations of
The Cybernetic Enterprise

The Bodies of Knowledge Behind Future-Ready Organizations

Foundations of The Cybernetic Enterprise is the companion volume to The Cybernetic Enterprise. It contains only the Body of Knowledge: concise reference entries on the disciplines behind the main book: Cybernetics, Systems Thinking, Lean & Flow, Agile & Methods, Architecture & Engineering, Product & Innovation, AI & Cyber-Physical, and DevOps.

 

This is a reference, not a playbook. For the operating model, principles, practices, governance, metrics, and roadmaps, use the main book.

 

The Cybernetic Enterprise is not built on entirely new concepts. It stands on the shoulders of time-tested methodologies, practices, and principles that have proven their value over centuries. These foundations shaped the efficiency, precision, and innovation behind modern AI-powered operations. This accumulated Body of Knowledge is the backbone of the Cybernetic Enterprise—informing how we design and deliver software, AI-driven solutions, and cyber-physical systems.

 

In Switzerland we know the Ricola line: “Wer hat es erfunden?” — “Who has invented it?” This volume answers that spirit of inquiry by tracing ideas to their sources.

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The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment

A Practical Tool for Building Future-Ready Organizations

The Cybernetic Enterprise Assessment is the practical companion to The Cybernetic Enterprise, designed to help organizations translate concepts into measurable transformation.

 

This book provides a structured framework for assessing organizational maturity across people, process, technology, and data the foundational layers of the cybernetic enterprise model. Through high-level and in-depth assessments, it guides leaders in identifying strengths, uncovering systemic gaps, and defining clear pathways toward adaptability, autonomy, and resilience.

 

Whether you are a transformation leader, architect, or coach, this book enables evidence-based dialogue and informed decision making. It moves beyond theory, offering a practical instrument to sense your organization’s current state, align on desired outcomes, and build the feedback-driven, AI-augmented enterprise of the future.

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The Cybernetic Enterprise CTO Playbook

A Practical Guide for Building Future-Ready Organizations

The Cybernetic Enterprise CTO Playbook is a practical guide for technology leaders who want to build adaptive, future-ready organizations. Based on the concepts introduced in The Cybernetic Enterprise, this playbook translates theory into execution. Turning principles into plays, and plays into measurable outcomes.

 

It provides CTOs and technology executives with a structured roadmap to architect for simplicity and speed, empower autonomous teams, scale platform engineering, embed AI responsibly, and lead transformation through feedback-driven learning. Each chapter delivers actionable insights, assessment frameworks, and transformation strategies grounded in real-world enterprise experience.

 

This playbook is not a framework to follow. It’s an operating manual for CTOs who want to lead enterprises that sense, decide, and adapt faster than their environment changes.

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The Cybernetic Enterprise CTO Playbook Book

A Holistic Transformation Suite

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Unified Operating Model

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AI-Augmented

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Holistic by Design

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Solid Foundation

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Assessment Toolkit

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CTO Playbook

Romano Roth

Romano Roth is a pioneering thought leader in cybernetic transformation, enterprise evolution, and platform engineering, with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. As the Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation at Zühlke, Romano is responsible for shaping the global strategy and service portfolio for cybernetic enterprises, platform engineering, AI integration, and cloud solutions. His visionary approach is redefining how organizations innovate and adapt across industries such as finance, insurance, cybersecurity, energy, healthcare, and aerospace.

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