Beyond the AI Hype: Where AI Makes a Real Difference in Business Outcomes - and Where It Doesn't

(Note: This webinar will also be hosted in German: 23 April 2026, 18:30 CET. Register here for the German session.)

AI is making individual people dramatically faster - sometimes 10x, sometimes even much more. But here's the uncomfortable truth most organisations are discovering: faster individuals don't automatically make a faster company. In many cases, the system actually gets slower. More output, more noise, more things clogging the already overfilled pipes.

The bottleneck was never the individual. It's the space in between - the handoffs, the decisions nobody owns, the workflows that cross team boundaries and stall.

This webinar is about that space.

Here's what most AI strategies miss: actual touch time - the time someone spends doing the work - is a fraction of total cycle time. The rest is waiting, queuing, coordinating, deciding. That's where Kanban thinking and Flight Levels come in - especially in multi-project environments. Before AI can deliver real impact beyond the individual, you need to see the system and make coordination visible. Skip that step, and AI just produces more stuff, faster, into the same broken handoffs.

But get the foundations right, and AI becomes genuinely powerful - not as a faster typist, but as a coordination partner. In this webinar we'll walk through practical examples of where AI can genuinely improve how work flows across teams and project portfolios - from clearing decision bottlenecks to keeping the right work moving at the right time - and where it falls flat without the fundamentals in place. What emerges is a model where Human ↔ Human ↔ AI ↔ AI coordination isn't science fiction but a practical, emerging reality.

You'll leave with a clear picture of where coordination really breaks down, where AI can help remove those bottlenecks, where it simply can't - and what to fix first.

This webinar is about that space.

This webinar is organised in conjunction with the PMI Germany Chapter.

Please address any questions to: mathias@xuviate.com or martin.bertram@pmi-gc.de