So much has changed lately in the worlds of product design and innovation that many leaders aren’t fully aware of the new possibilities.
In this session of the 2020 Innov8rs Connect Conference, we reviewed recent advances in teams, tools and techniques, and how they’re coming together to create a new world of possibilities for organizations. We concluded with a real-world case study of modern innovation in action.
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We Can't Build Tomorrow Using Yesterday's Tools - Modern Accelerator
1. We Can’t Build Tomorrow
Using Yesterday’s Tools
Innov8rs Connect Unconference
19 August 2020
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2. • Co-founder, Modern Accelerator
• Innovation leader, 2x founder
• Former Scient, Y&R
• Inc. 500/5000 Entrepreneur
Scott McDonald
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Anuraag Verma
• VP of Customer Development, Alpha
• Host of This Is Product Management podcast
• Formerly at General Assembly & Virgin
• Worked as a Product Manager in 4 continents
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The cost, time commitment
and risk of making change in
companies are plummeting.
Change is hard?
4. The barriers to exploring
new ideas and making
them happen have never
been lower.
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1. New Forms of Leadership
2. The No-Code / Low-Code Movements
Two Accelerators
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“We don’t know. But we’re
going to find out.”
• Listen
• Lead with questions
• Empower others
• Everything is an experiment
• A bias for action
New Forms of Leadership
15. You’ve got to change your culture, because it’s
natural for bosses to want to decide. Now 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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”- Scott Cook, Co-founder of Intuit
19. Toggle: A Convergence of Trends
Team: Product, Design, Research, Engineering,
Underwriting, Operations, Business Development
Techniques: Test &
Learn, Experimentation
Tools: Agile
Research Platform
23. Ideas are simply clusters of
assumptions
? ? ?
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? ? ?
I think
millennials find
insurance too
confusing!
Millennials
don’t think they
have anything
worth insuring
I think millennials
want personalization
Most people
don’t even know
about renters
insurance
24. ✗
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Successful Ideas Unsuccessful Ideas
Product goes to market
with no underlying
assumptions
Product goes to market
with unvalidated
assumptions
25. Unvalidated assumptions are costly
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I think
millennials
find insurance
too confusing!
Millennials
don’t think they
have anything
worth insuring
I think millennials
need customization
Most people
don’t even
know about
Renters
Insurance