AI is taking over execution. Your ways of working are now the bottleneck.
AI makes execution faster. Lack of direction will only accelerate waste.
AI requires a deep reset.
Are you ready for it?
Most teams are adding AI to broken products and processes, then call it transformation. This short evaluation will show you how prepared your company really is.
STEP 1 OF 4
Diagnostic Phase
AI is forcing a deep rethink of both product and organisation.
The "Playmaker" Product Operating Model rebuilds your organisation around 3 principles:
Accountability
- Subject-matter leaders are shifting from execution to AI agent orchestration.
- Expertise and ownership have never mattered more.
Vision
- AI is taking over the craft.
- Strategy and critical thinking become the differentiators.
Simplification
- AI multiplies individual output but that leverage shrinks as team size grows.
- Communication, simplification and orchestration become foundational.
The Playmaker Product Operating Model was forged in elite working environments. Scale-up automotive, including McLaren and Lotus Cars.
Stress-tested
- Under journalist and customer scrutiny from the 1st MVP
- Across regulated and non-regulated systems
- Automotive software embedded within complex hardware
Proven by results
- 12 designers vs. 400 at competing companies
- Competing against studios with four times the budget
- Delivered by a fraction of typical industry budgets
Designer &
Systems Thinker
Jean Loeillet founded the first-ever Interaction Design team at Lotus Cars. Since then he has developed a reputation for building highly efficient teams working on iconic products.
His formula: Product Operating Models built around accountability, vision and simplification. Precisely what AI demands.
"Direction eliminates waste."
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