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How Big
Companies Can Be
More Like Startups
(Except without the going out
of business part)
@ZacharyCohn Wonful Consulting
Rock.. Paper.. War!
What is a startup?
“A startup is an organization
formed to search for
a repeatable and scalable
business model.”
-Steve Blank
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
What is a
corporation?
“A corporation is an organization
that has found, and is executing,
a repeatable and scalable
business model.”
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
What are the
implications of
executing on a
working model?
Company policies are
the white blood cells
of anti-innovation
Start Small.
What do you already have
the power to do?
The Top 3.5 Things
You MUST Learn
From Startups
(you won’t believe #1.5!)
1: Talk To Customers
1.5: Everyone talks to customers!
2: Experimentation
3: Creativity
1: Talk To Customers
1.5 Everyone talks to Customers
2: Experimentation
3: Creativity
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
1: Talk To Customers
1.5: Everyone talks to
customers!
2: Experimentation
3: Creativity
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
4 Customer
Interview Rules
Pull, Don’t Push
Actual Self vs Ideal Self
Past Behavior  Future Behavior
Stories are better than Statements
Customer Interview
Techniques
The Five Why’s
Customer Interview
Techniques
The Five Why’s
“Tell me more…”
Practice Time!
5 Customer Interview
Techniques
The Five Why’s
“Tell me more…”
“Tell me about the last time…”
5 Customer Interview
Techniques
The Five Why’s
“Tell me more…”
“Tell me about the last time…”
“What do you mean by…?”
5 Customer Interview
Techniques
The Five Why’s
“Tell me more…”
“Tell me about the last time…”
“What do you mean by…?”
What are they doing today?
Recommendation!
Every single person at a company
should interact with at least one
customer every two weeks.
1: Talk To Customers
1.5: Everyone talks to customers!
2: Experimentation
3: Creativity
“Fail Fast”
Glorification of Failure
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
“Don’t glorify failure.
But if it’s going to
happen, make it fast.”
Glorification of Experimentation
“Business plans rarely
survive first contact with
customers.”
– Steve Blank
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)
1: Talk To Customers
1.5: Everyone talks to customers!
2: Experimentation
3: Creativity
“Creativity is just
Terrible Ideas + Iteration”
Creativity is best with:
Constraints
No Judgment
Fast Cycles, Many Iterations
Half Baked
@ZacharyCohn
Wonful.co

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Hyatt Talk: How Big Companies Can Be More Like Startups (Without the 'going out of business' part)

Editor's Notes

  1. WABOS project. Don’t assume they knew what the problems were – went out and talk to customers before they built the thing. Brought us back, merging the 3 IT orgs together. Treat it like a product – go talk to customer agencies and find out what their challenges are. Build the new org around those.
  2. Building their Innovation Lab. History of Nordstrom. Developers don’t come from floor. Never talked to, BEEN TO, a Nordstrom before! Innovation Bootcamp +morale, +connection to customers, +remembering why you took the job.
  3. Customer Interview questions
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  5. Customer Interview questions
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  7. Customer Interview questions
  8. Customer Interview questions
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  10. Customer Interview questions
  11. “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” – Mike Tyson
  12. Whole team that runs, manages, and coaches people through pilots. Smoothie signs