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Four key takeaways
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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Four key takeaways
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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“There's a lot of hair in India and a
legitimate gap in the market.
There is a publicly traded US company
that does franchise salons and
barbershops (parent of Supercuts) with
a $1 billion market capitalization.
Last year Gillette bought The Art of
Shaving, demonstrating an interest in
service businesses”
Scott D. Anthony, 27-Jan-2010
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April 2010
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“Genius is 1 percent inspiration
and 99 percent perspiration.”
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12% Inc 500 founders attributed success
to a brilliant idea
25% Venture-capital backed startups that
returned any capital to investors
0.1% Venture-capital backed software
companies since 2003 worth >$1B
.05% CPG product launches from 2008-11
that were “breakthrough successes”
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Through our experience in innovation’s first mile, we have learned …
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“It felt like we were
Apple, running our
skull-and-cross-
bones up the
flagpole. We knew
at that moment that
we could change
the world.” Every Idea is Partially Right & Partially Wrong 1
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First mile reality #1: Customers Lie
• Voi
Customers Lie 2
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You Can’t Cash a Spreadsheet 3
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Indifference Doesn’t Scale 4
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It Always Takes Longer, It Always Costs More 5
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Four key takeaways
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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The first mile is all about managing strategic uncertainty
Assumptions
Knowledge
False Confidence
Ignored Assumptions
What we actually know
What we assume
Distance from
today’s business
What we think we know
What we think we assume
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The D-E-F-T process helps to bring the scientific method to strategy
DOCUMENT what you plan to do
EVALUATE it to unearth assumptions
FOCUS on the most critical uncertainties
TEST rigorously and adapt quickly
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Step 1: Document your plan
At the least …
• What is the
problem you
are solving for
the customer?
• What is your
idea?
• How will it
translate into
value?
• What are you
least sure of?
• How will you
learn more?
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Step 2: Evaluate it to identify underlying assumptions
WWYNTB
1. Is there a need?
Is there an important Job-to-be-done
(problem to be solved) that isn’t
adequately addressed by current
solutions and affects a large segment?
2. Can we address it?
Can we reliably build and deliver a
compelling solution that is superior to
offerings from current and potential
competitors?
3. Is it worth it?
Can we sustainably create
and capture value?
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Step 3: Focus on what you don’t know …
Question Low Degree of Proof High
Is there a
need? Said Shown Used Purchased Repeated Advocated
Can you
deliver? Dreamed Drawn Prototyped Piloted Delivered Scaled
Is it
worth it?
Model:
Envelope
Model: Unit
Economics
Model:
Entire
Business
Revenue
Producing;
Unit
Economics
Validated
Line of
Sight to
Profitability
Profitable
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Source: Clark Gilbert and Matthew J. Eyring, “Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture”, Harvard Business Review May 2010
… particularly where the impact is large
High ROI assumptions
Can be knocked off quickly and cheaply
!
Path-dependencies
Heavily influence subsequent decisions
Deal-killers
Risk undermining the entire venture
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Step 4: Test rigorously and adapt quickly
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Over a two month period
we tested more than two
hundred models of
different types of wings.
Sometimes we got results
that were just hard to
believe. Data used by
early inventors proved to
be full of errors.
It is doubtful if anyone
would have ever
developed a flyable wing
without first developing
this data.
Sometimes the non-
glamorous lab work is
absolutely crucial to the
success of a project.
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What’s your wind tunnel?
Thought Experiment Focused Feasibility Test Minimum Viable Offering
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Always have HOPE when you test
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Summary: Be DEFT, have HOPE
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Four key takeaways
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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Cultures that support strategic experimentation
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UK-92480
Pfizer was investigating a drug named “UK-92480″ that they had
discovered by rational drug design. It caused smooth muscle
relaxation through inhibition of the phosphodiesterase
(specifically PDE5), which is responsible for hydrolysis of cyclic
GMP. It was hoped that inhibition of PDE5 would cause smooth
muscle relaxation via the pathway above, and lower blood
pressure in patients. Unfortunately, results were modest.
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An interesting side-effect of the drug was noticed by male patients
however, and the drug was surprisingly popular among the study
participants despite the poor control of blood-pressure.
Pfizer, not being idiots, realized they had hit gold.
Source: The Road to Sildenafil – A history of artificial erections, by Mark Hoofnagle
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Externally focused;
“consumer is boss”
Tinkerer’s mentality
(“good enough”)
Bipolar (optimist &
devil’s advocate)
Driven by
opportunity, not
constrained by
resources
Camp out at
intersections
Willing to say “no,”
“not now,” &“stop”
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You learn far more
from your failures than
you do from your
successes – far more
from your failures
What we’re trying to do
now is fail a lot faster,
fail a lot cheaper, so
we can fail more and
get on to the next idea
or the next innovation
that may become a
commercial success.
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Example: Tata Sons
Showcasing a growing culture of risk-taking and perseverance across
Tata companies, the Dare To Try category at Tata Innovista saw over 240
entries. The Dare To Try category recognises and rewards most novel,
daring and seriously attempted ideas that did not achieve the desired
results. The award went to Tata Consultancy Services.
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“We want our leaders
to be coaches and
facilitators, not
decision makers.
The experiments that
the team runs should
provide the data to
help the team make
decisions so the leader
doesn’t have to.”
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“We want our leaders
to be coaches and
facilitators, not
decision makers.
The experiments that
the team runs should
provide the data to
help the team make
decisions so the leader
doesn’t have to.”
“We teach our leaders
that it's your job to put
in the systems that
enable your people to
run your experiments
fast and cheap and to
keep making them
faster and cheaper.
Yield as many of your
decisions off to the
experiment as
possible.”
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Four key takeaways
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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The trouble
with our times
is that the
future is not
what it used
to be.
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The reality of today’s world
“On average, an S&P 500 company is now
being replaced about once every two
weeks. And the churn rate of companies
has been accelerating over time.”
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What can you learn from the marshmallow challenge?
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Source: Tom Wujec, The Marshmallow Challenge, TED April 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
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Source: Tom Wujec, The Marshmallow Challenge, TED April 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
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Source: Tom Wujec, The Marshmallow Challenge, TED April 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
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Innovative behaviors comes naturally to us as children.
We systematically unlearn how to be curious and creative Source: Tom Wujec, The Marshmallow Challenge, TED April 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
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Magic happens at intersections – where different
mindsets, approaches, and skills collide Source: Tom Wujec, The Marshmallow Challenge, TED April 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
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Assessing your innovation network
Of the 20 people in your innovation network, how many …
Have different academic degrees
Are artists or entrepreneurs
Spent a significant amount of time overseas
Work in a different industry
Could, perhaps proudly, be considered weird
Are 20 years older or younger than you
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When in doubt…
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What we talked about
Businesses are most fragile in the first mile, when
they move from plan to reality
Speed through the first mile by being DEFT and
having HOPE as you manage strategic uncertainty
Increase your organizational curiosity to make
strategic experimentation a more “natural act”
Seek chaos, broaden your skills, and diversify your
network to lead in the coming age of discontinuity
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75%
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0.1%
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Source: Cheating on Your Corporate Job by Kriti and Shivarj Vichare
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Never faster,
sometimes better
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humble
thorough active
innovative
flexible
bold
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