The Green Dashboard Trap: How Institutions Lose Sight of Their Intent

Tagline: Why well-governed institutions gradually drift from their own intentions. Description: This essay introduces the central phenomenon of the programme: how strategic intent becomes simplified as it moves through layered governance systems.It shows how institutions can drift not because of incompetence, but through incremental translation across dashboards, criteria frameworks, and reporting structures.The essay names the phenomenon later formalised as Translation Drift and frames coherence as a structural property of decision systems rather than a matter of individual judgment.It serves as the narrative entry point to the programme’s architectural, mechanistic, and measurement papers. Programme…