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Jon Kaehne
Head of Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Level 200
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Leading Enterprise Innovation
@ Startup Speed
at the heart of new product
dev is one sad fact
85%of new products #FAIL
- Harvard Business Review
that’s trillions
of dollars in
wasted innovation
each year
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worse yet – during market
disruption new product
development is the only safe haven
What if we could reduce
waste by even 10%
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Or innovate as fast
as startups?
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THE GOOD NEWS!
we have proven tools
to reduce waste
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Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
THE REALLY GOOD NEWS!
we also have proven tools to
apply this to innovation
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Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
Disruption
“Lean Startup is a new strategy
for the 21st-century corporation”
- Steve Blank, HBR
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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
1
2
3
4
Principles of Lean Innovation
Accept that you know nothing
1
The problem is not
the wall between
engineering and
marketing
The problem is not
the wall between
engineering and
marketing
The problem is the
wall between you
and your customer
You don’t know
jack about what
the customer
wants
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In fact neither do they
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So how do most firms respond
to all this uncertainty?
50 page business plan
Capital Budgeting
3-month Requirements Analysis
Functional Documentation
9-month Development Project
50 page business plan
Capital Budgeting
3-month Requirements Analysis
Functional Documentation
9-month Development Project
Cross Fingers
What’s the alternative?
Test Smart
2
Innovators love failure!
Innovators love failure!
Innovators love to experiment
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Experiments confirm or reject
hypotheses. Failure is not an option.
Innovators experiment using
minimum viable products (MVP)
MVPs like “concierge services”
can even be pretend!
Product Development
Product –
Market fit
Time
Scale
Product Development
Product –
Market fit
Time
Scale
Innovation & Iteration
Time
Scale
Product –
Market fit
Innovation & Iteration
Time
Scale
Started: burbn, location-based
mobile app. Photo sharing is
just one feature
Product –
Market fit
Innovation & Iteration
Time
Scale
Now: re-written as
photo app. Sold to
FB for 1bn
Started: burbn, location-based
mobile app. Photo sharing is
just one feature
Innovation & Iteration
Time
Scale
Started: odeo, site to create &
share podcasts
Innovation & Iteration
Time
Scale
Now: micro-blogging,
500M users, IPO,
>18Bn market cap
Started: odeo, site to create &
share podcasts
MVPs do not (necessarily)
increase certainty
– they actually…
Reduce low-hanging uncertainty
remember,
(only) reducing failed products
from ~90% to ~80% is already a
big deal
Measure Smart
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Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
Iterate At Speed
4
Pivot Versus Persevere
De-risking Value > Experiment Cost
1.Choose the right hypotheses
2.Reduce the cost to experiment
So how is all this
relevant for the cloud?
“Cloud is like a fertilizer
that creates startups”
- Eric Ries
Although undoubtedly tough,
this is all completely doable
Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
“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.
Leading Enterprise Innovation at Startup Speed
Remember – if you don’t
do it, direct or brand new
competitors will
Thank you!

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