The Sentient Value Stream Framework: How Organisations Learn to Sense Themselves

By Jan Windahl and Dennis Johansson

Modern organisations are flooded with data yet strangely blind to what actually happens inside their own value streams. Flow Sentience introduces a new paradigm for organisational intelligence: the ability to continuously listen to operational reality and adapt in real time. Drawing on systems thinking, evolutionary psychology and the emerging possibilities of AI-assisted organisational sensing, the book explores why even highly competent organisations repeatedly become trapped in silos, project logic and delayed feedback. Through the concept of Sentient Value Streams, the authors describe how organisations can regain situational awareness across complex operational landscapes. The book also introduces SentientOps, an emerging operational model that combines human judgement, real-time sensing and AI-assisted analysis to detect friction, learning signals and wellbeing risks as they arise. Rather than replacing human decision-making, sentient systems strengthen it. The result is a practical framework for leadership in an age where complexity grows faster than traditional management structures can handle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9181341482
• ISBN13: 9789181341485
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"