INBOX INSIGHTS, March 27, 2024: The 5P Framework, AI Content Gap Analysis - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting

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The 5P Framework – Where It Began

Last week I had the realization that a lot of us come to – just because I know something well doesn’t mean everyone else does. I’ve been making assumptions about how well “everyone” else knows the 5P Framework. To give myself a gut check, I put up a quick poll on LinkedIn and got a few “I don’t know what the 5P Framework is” responses.

Knowing this is super helpful. I ended up writing this piece and pinning it to my profile.

You can read it here.

The 5Ps are Purpose, People, Process, Platform, and Performance.

Purpose – What is the question we’re trying to answer? What is the problem we’re trying to solve.
People – Who should you involve? Who needs to know about this?
Process – How will we answer this question, solve this problem?
Platform – What tools do we need? What software will we use?
Performance – How will we measure success? How do we know we solved the problem?

I created the 5P Framework as a reaction to digital transformation. Digital Transformation is “People, Process, Technology” with an emphasis on technology. I’ve been working long enough to have been through quite a few “transformations”. To put it in perspective, when I started working with developers our technology was floppy disks and CD-ROM. Bringing our product “online” was a huge and painful step.

We struggled through this transition. The technology wasn’t the problem, it was a natural step. The problem was with the approach. It was the people and the processes. We made the naive assumption that the user workflow would be the same online as it was from a CD-Rom. Spoiler – it wasn’t. The web offered us new functionality not previously possible with the older technology. Instead of taking a step back to examine our decisions, we just kept developing and innovating. We lost sight of the end user and became too focused on the final product.

This is just one of many examples. There are times when a digital transformation effort goes well, but in those cases it’s not usually referred to a digital transformation. The phrase puts the wrong expectations on an initiative and creates a bias of “tech” first.

The consulting firm Capgemini, (in partnership with the MIT), coined the term “digital transformation” in 2011. They defined the phrase as: “the use of technology to radically improve performance or the reach of businesses.” (source)

Here’s the problem. In theory, it makes sense. Your business needs to continue to evolve as tech changes. Your customers will expect it and your teams will be itching to skill up. In practice, it is technology first. When we choose a platform first, we have to retrofit our processes and people into it. There may be mismatches and lack of features. However, we’ve purchased or subscribed to the tech, so we feel obligated to make it work. It can be a burden on the company financially and burn out your teams to try to make it work.

When I talk about the 5P Framework, I often tell the story of how I tried to roll out MS Project with Sharepoint three different times at my old job. The technology was fine enough, but the company chose it without consideration of the people and processes. Looking back, it wasn’t the right solution. Since it was the technology they chose, they were determined to make it work. They were determined to have me make it work. It was a lot of time and energy put into an initiative that wasn’t set up for success.

This is why I created the 5P Framework. It puts people and processes first. It is also bookended by purpose and performance. I’m that annoying team member who always asks, “Why?”. It’s kind of like trying to fend off a toddler. I will keep asking “why” until I get a satisfactory answer. And then I will remember what you told me and want to know if that was the result. I know I’m not alone in this, I just happen to be painfully self aware.

If you are wanting to evolve your business with a digital transformation, know that it is a culture shift. It’s more than a transformation. It’s an overhaul. And it is not a small effort. You want to be clear on your purpose. You need to get your people on board. You need to understand how your processes will change. Then you can choose your platform. Lastly, you want to measure your performance.

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In this week’s Data Diaries, let’s look at what the capabilities of today’s modern large language models enable us to do. One of the prime uses for language models in marketing is to identify gaps, to help illuminate what we’ve missed.

For example, we’ve been writing the Data Diaries column now for almost 4 years, after we rebranded and reorganized the newsletter to INBOX INSIGHTS in 2021. We’ve covered so many different aspects of data, analytics, and AI. And nearly every marketer and content creator has run up against the feeling of repetition – “haven’t we written about that topic already?” We forget what we’ve done and not done, worried that we’re just repeating ourselves.

In the past, we’d have to go through our back catalog to see what we’d written, and that’s a time consuming task even for content we love. It’s certainly not a task we could do regularly.

Today? Today’s large language models, like the ones that power ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude, are capable of processing massive amounts of text. The current generation of models, led by Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5, can process almost 700,000 words of text at a time, a mind-boggling amount of text.

If you were to add up every issue of the Trust Insights newsletter over the last 4 years in terms of word count, how large a corpus do you think that would be?

Only 129,000 words. Now, 129,000 words is still quite a lot of content; that’s roughly two full-size business books, but it’s still well within the capabilities of today’s language model to process.

So, if we were to take our ideal customer profile that we built in the past, plus the last 4 years’ worth of newsletters, could a large language model like Claude 3 Opus or Google Gemini show us what we might have missed? It sure can.

We started by exporting all the data, converting it from HTML to plain text, and then fed it to Gemini 1.5 along with our ideal customer profile:

You can see that this occupies almost 200,000 tokens, 1/5 of the available memory in Gemini. This is a very large body of text for it to process. Once it ingests it, we ask for a summary so we know what’s in the corpus:

This is terrific, and it passes the sniff test. These are proportional to the number of columns we’ve done over the years. Now, if we apply our ICP to this, what haven’t we done in this column that would be worth doing?

Boom. This set of recommendations goes on for some time; in the interests of saving space, I won’t dump it all here. But it’s specific, prescriptive recommendations for future editions of this column.

More important, this is a technique that any marketer can use to assess your content of any kind. Got a podcast? What topics might your podcast audience want to know about that you haven’t talked about? What about a blog? eBooks? Webinars? You name it, as long as you have the content in a machine-readable format and it’s less than 700,000 words in total, today’s modern large language models can analyze it and help you find the blind spots in your content strategy.

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