Once any company gets 80% full of info, it’s mathematically guaranteed to stop communicating and start falling apart into cliques.
We usually blame bad management or poor culture for why companies become fragmented. This paper shows it is a geometric law of physics: once info saturation hits a specific threshold, a unified structure becomes mathematically impossible and must collapse into silos.
Bandwidth Saturation and Dimensional Collapse in Information-Processing Systems
SSRN · 6182498
We establish a formal relationship between bandwidth constraints and system fragmentation across cognitive, organizational, and network domains. When the ratio of active information streams to parallel processing capacity exceeds a critical threshold (empirically ≈ 0.8), feasible configuration spaces undergo dimensional collapse, making fragmentation geometrically inevitable. This result demonstrates that bandwidth saturation produces structural necessity, not empirical contingency. The framewor