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A short scoping line — who this is for and what it decides

Jonathan Jayes

2026-09-18

The situation

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Context

Statement slides carry one sentence and nothing else

Nexer purple, one line, no evidence. This is a beat, not an argument.

Market context

Adoption has grown for three years but the gap to peers is widening

Index, 2021 = 12

Key drivers

• Tooling became cheap enough to trial without a business case
• Procurement cycles shortened from nine months to about six weeks
• Internal champions replaced central mandates

The gap is a distribution problem, not a capability one.

Note: Index rebased to 2021.   Source: Internal benchmark; sector survey 2025

This is the standard workhorse slide: chart left at 55%, narrative right at 45%, each column with its own noun-phrase header. Read the action title aloud and the chart should be the proof of exactly that sentence — nothing more.

By the numbers

Four figures set the scale of the opportunity

82 M€ Cost saved

16 Countries

2 450 Employees

~6 wks Time to value

Every figure on this slide is sourced below. A number without a base is decoration.

Source: Nexer Group annual report 2025; PostNord engagement summary

The big-number row is lifted from the Nexer corporate deck. Keep it to four at most — a fifth turns it into a table and the eye stops ranking them.

Options

Three routes are open, and they differ mainly in who carries the risk

Route	What it involves	Risk sits with	Time to value
Pilot first	One team, one workflow, fixed scope	Nexer	~6 weeks
Platform first	Build shared tooling, then onboard teams	Shared	~6 months
Buy and adapt	Licence a vendor product, configure it	Client	~3 months

Note: Time to value measured from contract signature to first production use.

Options tables are for decisions, not inventories. Three rows, one differentiating column — here it is who carries the risk. If every column differs, you have not found the real trade-off yet.

Bridge

Two thirds of the saving comes from a single lever

€ millions, annualised

Note: Figures rounded to the nearest million; totals may not sum.   Source: Engagement model v4

A bridge answers “where does the number come from”. Label the start bar, the end bar, and every step between — an unlabelled segment is an invitation to be asked about it.

Target state

Three capabilities are in place and two are missing, and the gaps are all foundational

Note: Dashed boxes are capabilities that do not exist yet, not ones that exist and underperform.

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A diagram slide carries no columns and no stat row — both make pandoc split the slide in the pptx export, and the diagram loses its rail.

Recommendation

Start with one workflow, prove it in six weeks, then decide on the platform

• Weeks 1–2 — pick the workflow with the clearest baseline and the least integration
• Weeks 3–5 — build in the open, with the receiving team in the room
• Week 6 — measure against the baseline; publish the result either way

The decision this deck asks for is the six-week pilot, not the platform.

Detail on the pilot

Close on the ask, stated as one sentence, with the timeline that makes it credible. Everything else belongs in the appendix.

Appendix

Appendix

Layout reference

Syntax that earns its place:

• ## Kicker then ### Action title
• ::: {.stats} with [42]{.figure} [Label]{.label}
• ::: {.takeaway} for the bold lead-in
• ::: {.units} under a chart
• ::: {.source} for the bottom rail
• [text]{.chip} and [text]{.chip .accent}

Per-slide attributes:

• {background-color="#5A1F9F"} — statement slide
• {background-image="assets/swirl-dark.jpg"} — divider
• {.smaller} / {.scrollable} — dense slides
• {visibility="uncounted"} — appendix
• {visibility="hidden"} — parked

Nexer purple Highlight

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