The presentation deck is the most widely used information format in complex organisations. It is also one of the most quietly costly.

This video is not an argument against good communication. It is an argument against a format that was designed for a different information problem than the one senior leaders face today. In large programmes and portfolios, the information already exists. The challenge is not gathering it. The challenge is shared understanding of it. And a deck, however well constructed, does not produce that.

It produces a passive audience. A curated, sequenced version of reality that shapes decisions by what it includes and what it quietly leaves out. Days of preparation effort. A snapshot that is already ageing by the time it hits the screen. And then it disappears into an inbox until someone builds the next one.

This video looks at why the format works against the very thing senior leadership meetings are designed to do, and what a shared, living, navigable picture of the portfolio changes about the quality and speed of decisions.