Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
- 1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Jon Kaehne
Head of Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Level 200
© 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Leading Enterprise Innovation
@ Startup Speed
- 5. worse yet – during market
disruption new product
development is the only safe haven
- 6. What if we could reduce
waste by even 10%
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- 11. THE REALLY GOOD NEWS!
we also have proven tools to
apply this to innovation
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- 14. “Lean Startup is a new strategy
for the 21st-century corporation”
- Steve Blank, HBR
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- 15. Accept that you know Nothing
Neither you, nor the customer, may know what the
product requirements are until after they’ve played with
the product
Test Smart
Failure friendly firms don’t fail, they either confirm or
reject hypotheses
Measure Smart
Lean Enterprises measure the right things
Iterate at Speed
Lean Enterprises don’t throw good money after bad.
But neither are they fickle. Whatever the case, they pivot
or persevere quickly
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Principles of Lean Innovation
- 18. The problem is not
the wall between
engineering and
marketing
The problem is the
wall between you
and your customer
- 20. In fact neither do they
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- 21. So how do most firms respond
to all this uncertainty?
- 22. 50 page business plan
Capital Budgeting
3-month Requirements Analysis
Functional Documentation
9-month Development Project
- 23. 50 page business plan
Capital Budgeting
3-month Requirements Analysis
Functional Documentation
9-month Development Project
Cross Fingers
- 39. MVPs do not (necessarily)
increase certainty
– they actually…
Reduce low-hanging uncertainty
- 48. So how is all this
relevant for the cloud?
- 52. “Our performance of SAP on AWS is off the scale. We reduced our
monthly billing cycle from four days to one day and have significantly
reduced our overall annual IT costs. ”
- Carlos Galiano, CIO, Seaco Global Ltd.
- 54. Remember – if you don’t
do it, direct or brand new
competitors will