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# Matthias Holweg

**Profile.** Matthias Holweg is the American Standard Companies Professor of Operations Management and director of the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Program at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. His work sits at the intersection of operations management, process design, and applied AI. Canonical reference: his University of Oxford Saïd Business School faculty profile.

**Role in this source.** Co-author (with [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]]) of the HBR article that grounds this vault, arguing that generative AI threatens organizations through knowledge decay and process 'slopification.'

**Attributed contributions in this vault.**
- Co-author of [[quote-llm-entropy]] (the entropy-is-managed-but-not-eradicated formulation).
- Co-author of [[quote-productivity-paradox-lesson]] (the concluding thesis on process redesign).
- Joint author of every claim, action, and framework in this vault, including [[framework-three-challenges-genai]] and [[framework-four-steps-knowledge-decay]].