That’s not a joke about forever confused CEO. It’s the default state of most AI hopefuls.
AI Demo Slides Induced Perpetual State of Confusion
Every “AI” vendor pitch, every all-hands, every roadmap slide is full of words everyone nods at: “agentic,” “AI-native,” “transformation.” Nobody stops the meeting to ask what they actually mean for this business, this process, this P&L line.
So the nodding continues. Budgets get approved. (AI) Pilot gets funded. And six months later, nobody can explain why the thing doesn’t work — because nobody could explain, at the start, what “working” was supposed to look like.
That’s not a model problem. It’s a comprehension problem.
The Gap isn’t Between “AI” and “no AI.
It’s between people who can say what a process actually does and people who are nodding along because the words sound right.
The Operational Model Was Always Missing, AI Speed Just Made it Obvious
The BPT OP model, part of the DBJ Method, doesn’t add more vocabulary to nod at. If you cant say it in BPT, you dot understand it. You’renot just nodding any more.
AI doesn’t expose who has the best operational model. AI exposes who actually knows what that means.
Get that right side image part right first, in your organization. It is not “one week” introm but do deploy the BPT Operational Model. With all the crew on the CMM Level 5, as a precondition. The horizon will widen dramaticaly.
Funny as it seems, that right side of this image is the one that is a true picture of three roles enjoying the BPT OP model. While having the coffee in the pause of confusing presentation.