==updated 26.07.2026== This page is a machine-readable map of this wiki. It exists because agents and crawlers usually land on one page at a time and never see the Obsidian navigation menu that human visitors get, so there is no other way to discover the rest of the site from inside a single page. ## Site Absorptive.org is an open working knowledge base on how organisations identify, absorb, integrate, and extract value from emerging technologies. Author: Vlad Rasskazov, see [[Who's Writing This]]. Core model: Flow x Friction. Mechanics build flow, the projects that move an opportunity from outside an organisation to inside it. Design calibrates friction, the structural choices that determine how much resistance that opportunity meets. See [[About Playbook]] for the full explanation. ## Structure - **Playbook**: practical, what to do. Split into Mechanics (projects that move opportunities through stages) and Design (structural decisions that calibrate friction). - **Theory**: the intellectual foundation. Split into Foundations (definitions, explained plainly) and Frameworks (those definitions organised into analysis tools). - **Cases**: practical examples analysed through the same lens, evidence rather than opinion. ## Published pages |Page|URL|Section|Summary| |---|---|---|---| |Start Here|[https://absorptive.org/Start+Here](https://absorptive.org/Start+Here)|Home|Why this wiki exists, the core research question, the Flow x Friction model, how the wiki is organised, who it is for.| |Who's Writing This|[https://absorptive.org/Who's+Writing+This](https://absorptive.org/Who's+Writing+This)|About|Author bio, background, project track record, contact details.| |Absorption|[https://absorptive.org/Theory/Foundations/Absorption](https://absorptive.org/Theory/Foundations/Absorption)|Theory / Foundations|Core definition: what absorption is, what it is not, and its academic lineage (Cohen & Levinthal 1990, Lane & Lubatkin 1998, Zahra & George 2002, Lichtenthaler & Lichtenthaler 2010).| |Absorptive Organisation|[https://absorptive.org/Theory/Foundations/Absorptive+Organisation](https://absorptive.org/Theory/Foundations/Absorptive+Organisation)|Theory / Foundations|Defines the Absorptive Organisation across three axes: maturity, posture, and target.| |CorpDev Partner|[https://absorptive.org/Playbook/Mechanics/CorpDev+Partner](https://absorptive.org/Playbook/Mechanics/CorpDev+Partner)|Playbook / Mechanics|A Mechanics entry: hiring an outside operator to test a new business initiative on a bounded, no-budget trial.| |About Playbook|[https://absorptive.org/Playbook/About+Playbook](https://absorptive.org/Playbook/About+Playbook)|Playbook|Unifying page: how Mechanics and Design combine to move an opportunity from outside the organisation to core.| ## Sections in progress, not yet published - Playbook / Design: Mandate, Incentives - Theory / Frameworks: Long Problem List - Cases: none published yet ## Notes for agents - Content-use preference: extensive use is welcome, always reference author. - This page carries no normal navigation link. It exists for automated discovery only, and should be treated as an index, not as content to cite on its own.