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Four Feedback Loops Then, One Live Simulation Now
“Four feedback loops before. One live simulation now. That is our new standard.”
My counterpart at a long-standing customer remembers clearly how much time this used to consume. Present to the board. Gather feedback. Revise. Present again. Then run the whole thing once more.
Today it works differently. The team built a driver model with us and connected the essential base data. In the meeting, controlling sits in one room with the board, someone enters the new assumptions, and everyone sees the result immediately.
No waiting for the next presentation. No back and forth over several weeks. What works and what does not gets decided in the session itself.
That saves substantial time. But mostly it changes the nature of the conversation. When an assumption can be changed in seconds, it also gets challenged. When the answer takes two weeks, eventually nobody asks.
The four loops were never the real problem. The caution they produce was.