Digital Deification

Oct 8, 2026 · R&D Management

Stop Building Big Ontologies: Start with a Minimum Viable Closed Loop

The article argues against building comprehensive enterprise ontologies upfront, recommending instead to start from a concrete business problem, build a minimum viable ontology that closes the loop across identity, state, judgment, and action layers, let governance emerge organically, and measure success by business decision adoption rather than model size.