The Asset Crisis

The Asset Crisis is written for founders, executives, laboratory leaders, principal investigators, professors, research directors, technical managers, scientists, engineers, investors, and anyone responsible for critical knowledge, methods, or technical capability.It is for people who need to know whether essential work can continue when a key expert leaves, the primary path fails, or an important conclusion is challenged.Many organizations appear to own their capabilities because they employ experts, maintain procedures, and possess equipment and successful results. In reality, critical capability may still depend on one person or group, one path, or one interpretation.The Asset Crisis introduces the Three-Burrow Protocol (TBP), a practical framework for preserving expert capability, building alternative paths that can truly take over, and keeping important conclusions independently reviewable.It offers a clearer way to identify hidden dependence, test whether backups are real, and determine which capabilities the organization truly owns.Hiring an expert gives an organization access to capability. It does not automatically mean the organization owns it.