Working paper
Digital Twins & Smart Infrastructure Governance — Working Paper
What keeps a digital twin authoritative rather than decorative: data discipline, ownership, and the update cadence delivery decisions actually require.
Most infrastructure digital twins degrade into presentation artefacts within a year of handover. This working paper examines why, and what governance would prevent it.
The argument is that a twin is only as authoritative as its slowest update path, and that ownership — a named party accountable for currency, not merely for the platform — is the structural condition most implementations omit.
Read the full analysis: Digital Twin Governance: Why the Data Discipline Matters More Than the Model sets out the practical governance checklist that follows from this paper.