With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth.
The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.
Don't get me wrong. Planning is essential in getting anything done. But in my humble experience, 80% of planning documents are entirely useless, and the last 20% could be shortened by 80% without loss of quality. For other kinds of documents - reports, presentations, etc. - the numbers are even worse.
Corporate world is obsessed with producing text to unhealthy degree. AI generation is the result, not the cause.
There are teams that do work, and there are teams that don't do work. It's no coincidence that most documents exclusively benefit the latter.
Ironically, the documents that would actually help people doing work are often missing and/or incomplete and there's never budget to write them properly - up-to-date descriptions of processes, product manuals, API references beyond what's automatically generated, troubleshooting guides for common problems, onboarding materials, and so on. But somehow we have dedicated people to write detailed five year plans that never get completed and such. I can't help but wonder if ease of writing rather than usefulness is the core determinant of what gets written.
The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.