I’ve spent way too much of my working life drawing boxes and arrows on PowerPoint slides – way too much time cutting and slicing spreadsheets and scenario planning and way too much time crafting bullet points that will resonate with top executives.

It’s all been with the aim of getting buy in to significant investment – it’s all been about assessing the scale and size of a delivery team – it’s all been about plotting the roadmaps to transition and scale up and it’s all been about making things maybe work more efficiently and effectively.

But I’m getting increasing excited about how the world is changing and how the tools, environments and team structures can be there to help try out new ideas with customers and in markets and get instant feedback to every change and idea that the business might have.

Tech is changing fast, services are being launched daily that you can stitch together, configure and start operating with at scale and at pace – knitting together the services – giving them a go and seeing what difference you can make is pretty exciting.

In the old days the first 100 days would have been spent developing a plan for a plan – you still need that plan, you still need that structure but more thought has to go into the aspects you want to test, the changes you want to make happen and the differences you want to make.

It’s more than the agile movement, it’s more than a process with teams coming together – it’s thinking at speed and reconfiguring the design of the business – it’s plugging and playing a set of services to get a different result – and it’s making sure you have the underlying design integrity to scale up and keep secure what ever you choose to do – it’s about keeping it simple – not over complicating things and starting small and growing with experience.

Are you spending time in PowerPoint plotting what could be and what might be or are you storyboarding the scenarios of the “what next” and giving it a go before going on to the “what ever next” …

Of course structure, governance and performance has to be measured but to progress means getting out of powerpoint and delivering and documenting the experience in a way that you can learn from and progress with – it’s a different sort of power pointing – I’m not sure I’m there yet but I think it is the future .

What about you – where are you spending your time