Historically there has been tension between governance and delivery. Governance folk are concerned with product teams running riot to the detriment of the company. Remember that 17% of innovation projects go so badly that they can threaten the very existence of the company. Product teams, on the other hand, often view governance activities as restrictive, unnecessary and burdensome, making things slow, expensive and occasionally acting as total blockers.
How do we bring these seemingly unreconcilable requirements together? What would governance look like in an ideal world for us to build great products and services, with minimum risk and maximum impact?
Start-ups and Spinouts: the Fuzzy Front-End & the Hard Yards… is it worth it...Brian McCaul
This document discusses startups and spinouts, and whether they are worth pursuing. It notes that while startups are often touted as job creators, research shows only a small percentage of high-growth firms are responsible for new job creation. Successful startups tend to have proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and strong branding. University spinouts in particular help commercialize new technologies and can stimulate innovation and enterprise ecosystems. While most startups fail, taking more risks through early-stage funding could help identify the high-growth firms of the future. Creating a lean startup process may help startups test ideas faster and fail early.
This document discusses innovation and entrepreneurship. It begins by asking if certain examples are innovations and what defines innovation. Innovation is defined as an invention paired with a process and market. Entrepreneurship is described as bridging the gap between technology/opportunity and value. The professional entrepreneur must have both technology entrepreneurship skills and management skills. The entrepreneurial venture goes through four periods of development from pure entrepreneurship to corporate management as it grows from a technical innovation into a business.
This document provides an agenda and overview for the EuroFinance 23rd annual conference on International Cash & Treasury Management taking place from October 15-17, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. The conference will focus on how treasury and finance professionals can embrace and adapt to disruptive innovation in both their businesses and industry. Over the 3 day event, there will be keynote speeches, case studies, and panel discussions on topics such as disruptive trends, regulatory changes, technology advances, and best practices. Attendees will include over 1,900 delegates from over 650 companies representing 72% of corporate treasury structures.
The document summarizes the program for the EuroFinance conference on international cash and treasury management being held from May 13-15, 2015 in Miami. The conference will address how treasurers can steer the right course during times of disruption. Speakers will discuss challenges like adapting to changes in tax rules and regulations, addressing cyber threats, and navigating new banking regulations and relationships under Basel III. The program consists of plenary sessions and breakout streams over three days covering topics like centralization strategies, payment factories, treasury technology, and best practices in Latin America.
1. The document discusses breaking patterns to create value through innovation. It presents frameworks showing that value (A) is a function of attitude (R) and success (S), and that innovation (I) is a function of creativity (C) and transformation effort (Te).
2. It analyzes data showing countries with higher creativity and innovation indices have stronger market performances and citizens with greater reported happiness.
3. The author proposes a VACCINE process to accelerate value creation through creativity and innovation experiences within organizations. Case studies demonstrate significant financial and operational benefits from projects undertaken through this process.
This paper proposes the effective approaches to “Innovation & Entrepreneurial Management Activities” from the
points of view of “S-curve theory” and “the Patterns of technical evolutions.
This document provides an overview of the methodology used in developing the Scale-Up Report on UK Economic Growth. It involved forming expert committees to guide the work, reviewing academic literature on business growth, conducting workshops and interviews with hundreds of practitioners and policymakers, surveying over 300 scale-up leaders, analyzing over 75 initiatives supporting scale-ups, and commissioning analyses of the potential economic impacts of closing the UK's scale-up gap. The report aims to understand barriers to business growth and provide recommendations based on extensive research and stakeholder input.
Up Global - Fostering a startup ecosystem (full report)Startupi
This document discusses key ingredients for fostering successful startup ecosystems, focusing on talent, density, culture, capital, and regulatory environment. Regarding talent, it emphasizes investing in education and workforce training, creating flexible labor markets, and promoting immigration and diversity. For density, it stresses the importance of clusters and physical hubs in bringing talented people together to increase innovation. Culture focuses on promoting entrepreneurship through role models, accepting failure, and teaching entrepreneurial skills. Capital looks at ensuring startups have access to financing. And regulatory environment examines creating a stable, predictable environment for entrepreneurs and investors.
Start-ups and Spinouts: the Fuzzy Front-End & the Hard Yards… is it worth it...Brian McCaul
This document discusses startups and spinouts, and whether they are worth pursuing. It notes that while startups are often touted as job creators, research shows only a small percentage of high-growth firms are responsible for new job creation. Successful startups tend to have proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and strong branding. University spinouts in particular help commercialize new technologies and can stimulate innovation and enterprise ecosystems. While most startups fail, taking more risks through early-stage funding could help identify the high-growth firms of the future. Creating a lean startup process may help startups test ideas faster and fail early.
This document discusses innovation and entrepreneurship. It begins by asking if certain examples are innovations and what defines innovation. Innovation is defined as an invention paired with a process and market. Entrepreneurship is described as bridging the gap between technology/opportunity and value. The professional entrepreneur must have both technology entrepreneurship skills and management skills. The entrepreneurial venture goes through four periods of development from pure entrepreneurship to corporate management as it grows from a technical innovation into a business.
This document provides an agenda and overview for the EuroFinance 23rd annual conference on International Cash & Treasury Management taking place from October 15-17, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. The conference will focus on how treasury and finance professionals can embrace and adapt to disruptive innovation in both their businesses and industry. Over the 3 day event, there will be keynote speeches, case studies, and panel discussions on topics such as disruptive trends, regulatory changes, technology advances, and best practices. Attendees will include over 1,900 delegates from over 650 companies representing 72% of corporate treasury structures.
The document summarizes the program for the EuroFinance conference on international cash and treasury management being held from May 13-15, 2015 in Miami. The conference will address how treasurers can steer the right course during times of disruption. Speakers will discuss challenges like adapting to changes in tax rules and regulations, addressing cyber threats, and navigating new banking regulations and relationships under Basel III. The program consists of plenary sessions and breakout streams over three days covering topics like centralization strategies, payment factories, treasury technology, and best practices in Latin America.
1. The document discusses breaking patterns to create value through innovation. It presents frameworks showing that value (A) is a function of attitude (R) and success (S), and that innovation (I) is a function of creativity (C) and transformation effort (Te).
2. It analyzes data showing countries with higher creativity and innovation indices have stronger market performances and citizens with greater reported happiness.
3. The author proposes a VACCINE process to accelerate value creation through creativity and innovation experiences within organizations. Case studies demonstrate significant financial and operational benefits from projects undertaken through this process.
This paper proposes the effective approaches to “Innovation & Entrepreneurial Management Activities” from the
points of view of “S-curve theory” and “the Patterns of technical evolutions.
This document provides an overview of the methodology used in developing the Scale-Up Report on UK Economic Growth. It involved forming expert committees to guide the work, reviewing academic literature on business growth, conducting workshops and interviews with hundreds of practitioners and policymakers, surveying over 300 scale-up leaders, analyzing over 75 initiatives supporting scale-ups, and commissioning analyses of the potential economic impacts of closing the UK's scale-up gap. The report aims to understand barriers to business growth and provide recommendations based on extensive research and stakeholder input.
Up Global - Fostering a startup ecosystem (full report)Startupi
This document discusses key ingredients for fostering successful startup ecosystems, focusing on talent, density, culture, capital, and regulatory environment. Regarding talent, it emphasizes investing in education and workforce training, creating flexible labor markets, and promoting immigration and diversity. For density, it stresses the importance of clusters and physical hubs in bringing talented people together to increase innovation. Culture focuses on promoting entrepreneurship through role models, accepting failure, and teaching entrepreneurial skills. Capital looks at ensuring startups have access to financing. And regulatory environment examines creating a stable, predictable environment for entrepreneurs and investors.
Prez at 2001 NCIIA- REE Open 2011 conference -- the very best at entrep education & student-centric technology commercialization (especially sustainable tech) Also the Open Minds 2011 competition (the very best student teams with world-saving techs -whoa!)
key links:
Conf sked = http://open2011.sched.org/
Hosts: http://www.nciia.org/ & http://stvp.stanford.edu
My modest contribution was an overview of the lean startup model prefaced with WHY it works -- how action changes thought. .and thought patterns, making lean practitioners better entrepreneurial thinkers. (And why events like Startup Weekend are such brain-changers!)
Why is the World Order Changing and why it is important to you, according to ...Wealth Migrate
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, believes the global economy is facing major challenges and changes due to high levels of debt, rising wealth gaps, and geopolitical tensions as China challenges U.S. dominance. Dalio outlines three major economic forces - productivity, short-term debt cycles, and long-term debt cycles - and argues the world is currently in a long-term debt cycle that happens every 75-100 years, which could lead to a major economic downturn in the next 2-5 years. He emphasizes the need for individual investors to diversify across different asset classes, markets, and currencies to weather economic storms.
Entrepreneurship and Appropriate Technology (적정기술과 비즈니스)Jeongtae Kim
1. Appropriate technology and social entrepreneurship can work together to address social problems and create employment opportunities for those in need.
2. Small and medium enterprises and non-profits are often more successful than large corporations at entering emerging markets and serving the needs of the poor due to their flexibility to change conventional business models and rules.
3. When developing businesses and technologies for emerging markets, it is important to observe customers' hidden desires rather than just asking about their needs, and to find innovative solutions from limitations and everyday activities.
Although Innovation is considered to a very positive thing for a company but it can also be a threat for a company. In this paper, we'll try to see how.
The document discusses various strategies for acquisitions and partnerships. It begins by outlining considerations for different types of deals such as gives/gets, exit options, control, risks, and compliance issues. It then provides an example process for evaluating acquisition opportunities based on landscape analysis, strategic alignment, assessing the target company, and projecting value expansion as part of the combined business. Metrics for evaluating deals such as accretion, profit margins, IRR, and payback periods are also summarized. Finally, it outlines approaches for integrating acquired processes while preserving existing capabilities and achieving revenue growth.
European Startups -- Raising Funding in Silicon ValleyPeter Szymanski
The document discusses raising funds from Silicon Valley investors for Polish startups. It outlines nine key factors that Silicon Valley venture capital firms look for when investing, such as rapid growth, a large potential market, a proven management team, and a strong economic model. It emphasizes that reference checks with past portfolio companies are the best way for Polish entrepreneurs to select investors, and advises setting up a U.S. affiliate to legally accept American funding.
This document provides an overview of a lecture on innovation and change in the consumer goods industry. It will examine what innovation is, different types of innovation, challenges to innovation, and approaches to managing change. The learning outcomes are to understand models of innovation, discuss challenges and evaluate models for creating organizational change. The lecture will look at innovation in firms, disruptive innovation, and examples of innovation approaches used in Western firms compared to emerging markets.
Lecture 8 industry studies student (1)moduledesign
This document provides an overview of a lecture on innovation and change in the consumer goods industry. It begins by defining innovation and discussing the different types, including product and process innovation. It also covers challenges to innovation implementation and different approaches to managing organizational change. The learning outcomes are to understand models of innovation, challenges to innovation, and how to evaluate change models. The document then explores topics like disruptive innovation, innovation in Western firms versus emerging markets, and dealing with innovation failures.
Is governance focused on the right things? Governance is set up to manage risks, resources, and productivity, and operates to assure programs get delivered to realize promised benefits. What if customers don’t buy what’s delivered? What if users hate it? What, if anything, was assured in the business case? Were the benefits guaranteed? Is governance missing an opportunity to add greater value?
There is a tension between agile teams and governance models. Governance is geared more to the things that are valued less in the Agile Manifesto – tools, plans, contracts and documentation. So why not design a governance model that embodies agile and lean principles? What if governance looked for opportunities to create value and eliminate waste instead of asking whether programs are on schedule and within budget? What would governance and portfolios need to look like to enable greater business agility? What new roles would governance take on and what would its operating principles be?
Unicorn: The Science of Building a Billion-Dollar StartupMichael Herlache
At Founders Ventures, we are often asked, "How to build a billion-dollar startup?". We gave it some thought and used our own investment mandate to create a methodology for doing so which we call the Unicorn Methodology. The Unicorn Methodology is the following:
1. Focus on consumer/internet/enterprise software
2. Identify total addressable market of over $1bn
3. Ensure that the team is engineer-oriented
4. Build methodology around the core work process in the vertical market
5. Build network & marketplace around the core methodology
6. Follow customer development model to 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 1,000,000+ users
7. Monetize after value provided
This is the methodology that we use when evaluating and aiding our own startups at www.VCFounders.com
H3 presentation - 20 Years of Investing in and Operating Technology Companies Jeff Dyment
Experience from the buy-side, sell-side and being an operator of start-ups. Having invested in >40 companies, managed a $400 million portfolio of direct investments and fund investments, started 5 companies, and successfully exited dozens, these are some of the important lessons learned.
Entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic development and growth. It creates jobs, balances those seeking jobs with those creating jobs, and stimulates healthy economic growth. Entrepreneurship progresses economies from being factor-driven to efficiency-driven to innovation-driven. It is considered key to national competitive advantage. Countries and regions that support entrepreneurship through business incubation centers, entrepreneurial education and training, access to capital, favorable policy environments, and strong entrepreneurial cultures tend to have more vibrant economies.
Detecting & nurturing innovators in EU funded projectsDaniel Jarjoura
Training to DG CONNECT – European Commission : enable EU Project Officers to detect innovations and innovators in EU funded research and innovation programs and how to help them get to market quicker and more efficiently
Stian Westlake: the quiet rebirth of industrial policyNesta
Through a glass, darkly discusses industrial policy and innovation in the UK. It notes that productivity growth has lagged after recessions. It explores how to talk about industrial policy without "picking winners", and how innovation has contributed significantly to economic growth. The document outlines challenges with the current technocratic approach to innovation policy and proposes nine ways to open policy debates, including increasing funding, rebalancing research and development spending, learning from other countries' models, supporting clusters, and addressing short-termism in business.
These are the slides that accompanied the Q1 2021 Quarterly Investment Briefing for West of England on 25th March. The event included lightning talks from Richard Cobb Michelmores MAINstream, Oliver Woolley CEO Envestors and Gaurav Singh JPIN Venture Catalysts.
Slides 68-70 include information about those 17 companies that are actively raising investment in Q1 2021. Check out the disclaimer - these aren't recommendations, just information.
IoD Woman in Leadership Digital Transformation March 2016Niall McKeown
This document discusses digital transformation and the characteristics of digital innovators. It provides three case studies of companies that successfully underwent digital transformation, doubling in size within 18 months or achieving €2 million in revenue within a year. It then outlines six key characteristics of digital innovators, such as having a strategy set by data-driven leaders and understanding the importance of innovation. The document advocates aligning business models to take advantage of technological changes and being able to articulate the current and desired future state of the organization.
This document discusses challenges with software project success and factors that contribute to better outcomes. It provides examples of successful projects like the Delhi Metro and Medtronic. For software specifically, using agile methods seems to yield better results than traditional waterfall approaches. Overall, the key takeaways are that people are more important than processes; defining clear objectives and user involvement helps; and an agile mindset focused on modest execution tends to give projects the best chance of delivering value on time and on budget.
Bearing presentation on innovation driven competitive advantage - adc ci - ...Jörgen Eriksson
This document discusses innovation driven competitive advantages and provides an agenda for the presentation. It discusses globalization and hypercompetition as drivers of the need for innovation. It defines innovation and describes different types. It emphasizes that innovation must span the entire business system, including products, business models, marketing and more. It discusses common gaps that companies face in corporate innovation efforts, such as lack of framework, focus on competition over differentiation, and restrictive culture and processes. It provides strategies for making corporate innovation more effective, including developing a clear strategy, using tools like blue ocean strategy and sweet spot analysis, and allowing time and space for creativity.
The document discusses sustainable entrepreneurship and provides definitions of key terms. It introduces sustainable entrepreneurship as addressing social and environmental problems through business ventures that create value for all stakeholders without depleting resources. Alternative economic models are mentioned, such as zero growth and Buddhist economics. Principles of sustainability include using resources efficiently and upholding ethics over profits. Examples of sustainable industries and enterprises are provided, with considerations about making sustainable entrepreneurship a reality.
Prez at 2001 NCIIA- REE Open 2011 conference -- the very best at entrep education & student-centric technology commercialization (especially sustainable tech) Also the Open Minds 2011 competition (the very best student teams with world-saving techs -whoa!)
key links:
Conf sked = http://open2011.sched.org/
Hosts: http://www.nciia.org/ & http://stvp.stanford.edu
My modest contribution was an overview of the lean startup model prefaced with WHY it works -- how action changes thought. .and thought patterns, making lean practitioners better entrepreneurial thinkers. (And why events like Startup Weekend are such brain-changers!)
Why is the World Order Changing and why it is important to you, according to ...Wealth Migrate
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world, believes the global economy is facing major challenges and changes due to high levels of debt, rising wealth gaps, and geopolitical tensions as China challenges U.S. dominance. Dalio outlines three major economic forces - productivity, short-term debt cycles, and long-term debt cycles - and argues the world is currently in a long-term debt cycle that happens every 75-100 years, which could lead to a major economic downturn in the next 2-5 years. He emphasizes the need for individual investors to diversify across different asset classes, markets, and currencies to weather economic storms.
Entrepreneurship and Appropriate Technology (적정기술과 비즈니스)Jeongtae Kim
1. Appropriate technology and social entrepreneurship can work together to address social problems and create employment opportunities for those in need.
2. Small and medium enterprises and non-profits are often more successful than large corporations at entering emerging markets and serving the needs of the poor due to their flexibility to change conventional business models and rules.
3. When developing businesses and technologies for emerging markets, it is important to observe customers' hidden desires rather than just asking about their needs, and to find innovative solutions from limitations and everyday activities.
Although Innovation is considered to a very positive thing for a company but it can also be a threat for a company. In this paper, we'll try to see how.
The document discusses various strategies for acquisitions and partnerships. It begins by outlining considerations for different types of deals such as gives/gets, exit options, control, risks, and compliance issues. It then provides an example process for evaluating acquisition opportunities based on landscape analysis, strategic alignment, assessing the target company, and projecting value expansion as part of the combined business. Metrics for evaluating deals such as accretion, profit margins, IRR, and payback periods are also summarized. Finally, it outlines approaches for integrating acquired processes while preserving existing capabilities and achieving revenue growth.
European Startups -- Raising Funding in Silicon ValleyPeter Szymanski
The document discusses raising funds from Silicon Valley investors for Polish startups. It outlines nine key factors that Silicon Valley venture capital firms look for when investing, such as rapid growth, a large potential market, a proven management team, and a strong economic model. It emphasizes that reference checks with past portfolio companies are the best way for Polish entrepreneurs to select investors, and advises setting up a U.S. affiliate to legally accept American funding.
This document provides an overview of a lecture on innovation and change in the consumer goods industry. It will examine what innovation is, different types of innovation, challenges to innovation, and approaches to managing change. The learning outcomes are to understand models of innovation, discuss challenges and evaluate models for creating organizational change. The lecture will look at innovation in firms, disruptive innovation, and examples of innovation approaches used in Western firms compared to emerging markets.
Lecture 8 industry studies student (1)moduledesign
This document provides an overview of a lecture on innovation and change in the consumer goods industry. It begins by defining innovation and discussing the different types, including product and process innovation. It also covers challenges to innovation implementation and different approaches to managing organizational change. The learning outcomes are to understand models of innovation, challenges to innovation, and how to evaluate change models. The document then explores topics like disruptive innovation, innovation in Western firms versus emerging markets, and dealing with innovation failures.
Is governance focused on the right things? Governance is set up to manage risks, resources, and productivity, and operates to assure programs get delivered to realize promised benefits. What if customers don’t buy what’s delivered? What if users hate it? What, if anything, was assured in the business case? Were the benefits guaranteed? Is governance missing an opportunity to add greater value?
There is a tension between agile teams and governance models. Governance is geared more to the things that are valued less in the Agile Manifesto – tools, plans, contracts and documentation. So why not design a governance model that embodies agile and lean principles? What if governance looked for opportunities to create value and eliminate waste instead of asking whether programs are on schedule and within budget? What would governance and portfolios need to look like to enable greater business agility? What new roles would governance take on and what would its operating principles be?
Unicorn: The Science of Building a Billion-Dollar StartupMichael Herlache
At Founders Ventures, we are often asked, "How to build a billion-dollar startup?". We gave it some thought and used our own investment mandate to create a methodology for doing so which we call the Unicorn Methodology. The Unicorn Methodology is the following:
1. Focus on consumer/internet/enterprise software
2. Identify total addressable market of over $1bn
3. Ensure that the team is engineer-oriented
4. Build methodology around the core work process in the vertical market
5. Build network & marketplace around the core methodology
6. Follow customer development model to 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 1,000,000+ users
7. Monetize after value provided
This is the methodology that we use when evaluating and aiding our own startups at www.VCFounders.com
H3 presentation - 20 Years of Investing in and Operating Technology Companies Jeff Dyment
Experience from the buy-side, sell-side and being an operator of start-ups. Having invested in >40 companies, managed a $400 million portfolio of direct investments and fund investments, started 5 companies, and successfully exited dozens, these are some of the important lessons learned.
Entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic development and growth. It creates jobs, balances those seeking jobs with those creating jobs, and stimulates healthy economic growth. Entrepreneurship progresses economies from being factor-driven to efficiency-driven to innovation-driven. It is considered key to national competitive advantage. Countries and regions that support entrepreneurship through business incubation centers, entrepreneurial education and training, access to capital, favorable policy environments, and strong entrepreneurial cultures tend to have more vibrant economies.
Detecting & nurturing innovators in EU funded projectsDaniel Jarjoura
Training to DG CONNECT – European Commission : enable EU Project Officers to detect innovations and innovators in EU funded research and innovation programs and how to help them get to market quicker and more efficiently
Stian Westlake: the quiet rebirth of industrial policyNesta
Through a glass, darkly discusses industrial policy and innovation in the UK. It notes that productivity growth has lagged after recessions. It explores how to talk about industrial policy without "picking winners", and how innovation has contributed significantly to economic growth. The document outlines challenges with the current technocratic approach to innovation policy and proposes nine ways to open policy debates, including increasing funding, rebalancing research and development spending, learning from other countries' models, supporting clusters, and addressing short-termism in business.
These are the slides that accompanied the Q1 2021 Quarterly Investment Briefing for West of England on 25th March. The event included lightning talks from Richard Cobb Michelmores MAINstream, Oliver Woolley CEO Envestors and Gaurav Singh JPIN Venture Catalysts.
Slides 68-70 include information about those 17 companies that are actively raising investment in Q1 2021. Check out the disclaimer - these aren't recommendations, just information.
IoD Woman in Leadership Digital Transformation March 2016Niall McKeown
This document discusses digital transformation and the characteristics of digital innovators. It provides three case studies of companies that successfully underwent digital transformation, doubling in size within 18 months or achieving €2 million in revenue within a year. It then outlines six key characteristics of digital innovators, such as having a strategy set by data-driven leaders and understanding the importance of innovation. The document advocates aligning business models to take advantage of technological changes and being able to articulate the current and desired future state of the organization.
This document discusses challenges with software project success and factors that contribute to better outcomes. It provides examples of successful projects like the Delhi Metro and Medtronic. For software specifically, using agile methods seems to yield better results than traditional waterfall approaches. Overall, the key takeaways are that people are more important than processes; defining clear objectives and user involvement helps; and an agile mindset focused on modest execution tends to give projects the best chance of delivering value on time and on budget.
Bearing presentation on innovation driven competitive advantage - adc ci - ...Jörgen Eriksson
This document discusses innovation driven competitive advantages and provides an agenda for the presentation. It discusses globalization and hypercompetition as drivers of the need for innovation. It defines innovation and describes different types. It emphasizes that innovation must span the entire business system, including products, business models, marketing and more. It discusses common gaps that companies face in corporate innovation efforts, such as lack of framework, focus on competition over differentiation, and restrictive culture and processes. It provides strategies for making corporate innovation more effective, including developing a clear strategy, using tools like blue ocean strategy and sweet spot analysis, and allowing time and space for creativity.
The document discusses sustainable entrepreneurship and provides definitions of key terms. It introduces sustainable entrepreneurship as addressing social and environmental problems through business ventures that create value for all stakeholders without depleting resources. Alternative economic models are mentioned, such as zero growth and Buddhist economics. Principles of sustainability include using resources efficiently and upholding ethics over profits. Examples of sustainable industries and enterprises are provided, with considerations about making sustainable entrepreneurship a reality.
2015 Finance in the South West Segment 2 - Equity, Grants and Investment read...PKF Francis Clark
The document provides details about a morning event on finance in the South West of England in 2015. The structure of the event is outlined, with sessions on different topics ranging from background on debt and investment to sessions on equity, grants, and an SME perspective. Specific presenters and topics are listed for various sessions throughout the morning, including sessions on equity investment sources and structures, as well as a presentation on angel investment. Contact details are provided for some of the presenters.
Being a Lean Enterprise : Technology Is Not Enough Barry O'Reilly
Success in today’s business world is dependent on more than technology. Building a fully automated deployment pipeline will certainly help teams deliver their work faster, but it doesn't address the fundamental question of are building the right thing and delivering value to your customers.
It true technology is a strategic capability for any organization. However, many large organizations fail to reap rewards from their investment because their culture and mindset does not enable experimentation and learning.
In this talk Barry and Joanne will share what are the key issues that are holding organizations back from unleashing innovation, giving you examples of large organizations that are trying different ways to do address these issues with success.
Leanconf 2014: Being a Lean Enterprise - Barry O'ReillyLeanconf
Our world and future business opportunities are continuously emerging through advances in design and technology, and wider social and economic change. Organizations must continually revisit the question, ``What businesses are we in, and how can we organize to maximise our long-term potential?''
The most important work for leaders is to pursue a high performance culture of continuous experimentation and learning. This keynote will discuss how to embrace that culture to adapt our organization design, and transform our business to a resilient, constantly adapting Lean Enterprise
The Institute of Economic Developement Heather Smith
The Major Economic Development Event of the Year
This year’s IED Annual Conference will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster on 23 November, and will bring together economic development, regeneration and business leaders from across the UK to discuss how to achieve true economic development and create an enabling environment for sustainable economic growth.
Agile Practitioners Feedback to improve teamsEnergized Work
A 15 minute fast presentation for the London Agile Practitioners meetup group introducing the concept of feedback, 360 feedback - charted over time, "Helps and Hinders feedback questions" and word clouds.
The document discusses challenges faced by a development team working within a large organization on a SOA project. Key challenges included long development cycles, separate testing teams, infrequent releases, and outdated technologies like SOAP. The team adopted practices like test-driven development, service mocking, telemetry, and exploratory testing to help improve their process under these constraints. While integration issues persisted, the team was able to keep their own defect rates low through these practices.
Experience report on agile tools for management teamsEnergized Work
This document summarizes an experience report on using agile tools for management teams. It discusses applying agile practices like iterations, planning, and retrospectives to both development and management teams. It also covers foundations of agile like dealing with uncertainty through clarity, viewing organizations as dynamic systems, and continuous learning. The document provides examples of tools and practices that have worked well for management teams.
Business model innovation by experimentationEnergized Work
How to maximize learning and minimize risk.
All new products start as a series of unvalidated assumptions. The most critical assumptions are usually implicit and relate to the purpose of the product and the value it is intended to deliver. The more key assumptions involved, the greater the risk. It is enough to have 7 key assumptions about which you are 90% certain for the combined odds of success to be below 50%.
Contrary to popular belief, when we know very little about a situation, it only takes a small amount of new data to realise significant insights.
Unfortunately, people often underestimate the value of information and misunderstand risk. As Product Owners we are often afraid to test our assumptions. We routinely pile on additional risk without a second thought.
Do we have a death wish or are we simply masochists? Risk management is the bread and butter of the finance and insurance industries. Isn’t it time we evolved?
In this fast paced and practical session we will explore answers to the following questions:
- What is risk and how do we quantify and manage it?
- How do we assess the value of information?
- How can experimentation reduce risk and where does it fit in the product development cycle?
- What makes a good experiment?
- How to run experiments in a cost effective manner?
- What are good metrics?
- How to obtain Zen like focus and prioritisation?
New concepts will be introduced, examples will be given and we will then point out where to seek further information. Hold onto your hats.
The document discusses debugging Grails database performance issues. It notes that while GORM provides easy data access from anywhere in a Grails application, this can lead to unclear data access patterns and unintended queries. It then introduces the MVC Mini Profiler tool for tracking database queries and tying them to specific parts of the codebase. The document demonstrates this tool and outlines plans to implement more of its features for Grails and support non-SQL stores.
MTBF / MTTR - Energized Work TekTalk, Mar 2012Energized Work
The document discusses metrics for measuring system availability and reliability such as MTBF, MTTR, and various "nines" of availability. It notes that while increasing availability is important, reducing recovery time after failures through measures like redundant systems, data replication, and disaster recovery plans is also crucial. The key metrics are recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) which specify how long a system can be down and how much data can be lost respectively. The document concludes that the right approach depends on each system's specific requirements and that failures will inevitably occur, so the focus should be on rapid recovery.
Energized Work: Software that means businessEnergized Work
Energized Work is a software development lab in London that focuses on rapidly producing high-quality, useful software. They emphasize keeping business needs and goals at the forefront by having business representatives work closely with development teams. Energized Work delivers working features every week and uses an agile approach to adapt quickly to changes while maintaining quality through automated testing. Their clients praise Energized Work for their responsiveness, focus on business value, and ability to deliver working software rapidly.
Product Development in the Land of the Free - Energized Work PresentationEnergized Work
The document discusses principles for improving product development through a test-driven organization. It advocates understanding customer demand, balancing delivery priorities, and continually measuring outcomes like customer satisfaction, flow, and financial performance. The goal is to create a learning environment where teams can experiment safely to better serve customers and eliminate waste from processes.
Simon Baker gave a presentation on improving business operations through lean principles such as continuous delivery, validating ideas with customers, and removing waste. He advocated organizing around products instead of silos, delivering in short iterations to get frequent customer feedback, and using measurements to continuously improve rather than chase targets. The goal is to sustain throughput and revenue while minimizing defects and waste.
Concept to Cash - Energized Work PresentationEnergized Work
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2. Yoav Aviram / @yobo
Simon Baker / @energizr
Gus Power / @guspower
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3. Schedule
11:30 – Introduction.
11:35 – Risk.
12:00 – Investment.
12:25 – Impact.
12:50 – Questions / Close.
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5. 2
Discuss
15 min
Doodle and discuss.
Build up a picture.
Focus on what matters.
1
Context
5 min
Share our thinking.
Pose some questions.
3
Rotate
5 min
2 stay with the table.
Rest rotate clockwise to
the next table.
Hosts present what
was discussed to
newcomers.
6. verb
make changes in something established, especially by introducing new
methods, ideas, or products
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innovate
7. “The accepted purpose of governance is to monitor, report on, and ensure that
the specified requirements will be delivered in the agreed timeframe and within
the agreed budget to realise the benefits stipulated in the business case.
And in so doing, to ensure processes are followed correctly, standards are
adhered to, and the software is produced to an acceptable level of quality.”
Gating and approving / Ensuring compliance to processes and standards /
Controlling budgets and headcount / Auditing and quality assurance reviews /
Monitoring progress / Reporting status / Managing issues and risks /
Managing stakeholders
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Governance
9. ENERGIZED WORK / HMS President Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HJ / www.energizedwork.com
IT Programmes
17% go so badly they threaten the existence of the company.
Calleam Consulting
50% fail to achieve what they set out to achieve.
KPMG
60% do not meet schedule, budget or quality goals.
IBM
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Innovation
80% of VC investments never achieve the expected ROI.
National VC Association
93% of Angel investments never achieve the expected ROI.
Washington University
95% of technology startups fail.
Allmand Law
11. “Uncertainty is the lack of complete certainty, that is, the existence of more than
one possibility. The ‘true’ outcome, state, result, or value is not known.”
How to Measure Anything, Douglas Hubbard
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Uncertainty
Quantify uncertainty by assigning probabilities to a set of possibilities.
E.g. There is a 60% chance this market will double in five years.
12. “Risk is a state of uncertainty where some of the possibilities involve a loss,
catastrophe, or other undesirable outcome.”
How to Measure Anything, Douglas Hubbard
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Risk
Quantify risk by assigning probabilities and quantified losses to a set of
possibilities.
E.g. There is a 40% chance the proposed oil well will be dry, with a loss of
£12 million in exploratory drilling costs.
13. People grossly underestimate risk and uncertainty.
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The problem with risk
Our mind is wired to use heuristics when making decisions which involve
probabilities.
This is particularly true in cases involving compound probabilities, i.e.
where two or more related probabilities combine.
Both technology & innovation involve compound risks.
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Risk management 101
Accept because some risks are worth assuming.
Avoid by eliminating the situation or activity that presents it.
Transfer through insurance or other types of contracts.
Reduce by reducing uncertainty or hedging your bets.
15. Information reduces uncertainty.
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Reduce uncertainty
Information Theory, 1948
Reduced uncertainty improves the quality of decisions.
Improved decisions have observable consequences with measurable value.
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Governance
Traditional governance seeks to reduce risk by exercising control.
It hampers innovation because it enforces process and compliance.
The goal of governance is to assure investments generate value and
mitigate associated risks.
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Risk
What are the unique risks
innovation programmes face?
How can we reduce risk and,
at the same time, enable
innovation?
Discuss
Doodle and discuss.
Build up a picture.
Focus on what matters.
15 min
Rotate
2 stay with the table.
Rest rotate clockwise to the next table.
Hosts present what was discussed to
newcomers.
5 min
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Understand the gamble
Capital investments in IT projects are made on the merits of business cases
built on assumptions.
Every time you build a feature and
delay validating it with customers
you make a bet that it’s the right
feature.
The more features you build and
the longer you wait, the bigger the
ante gets until, one day, you’ve bet
the budget on a hole-in-one.
Increasing inventory
Increasing investment
Bigger and bigger bet
£
t
20. Sticking to the plan and optimising productivity so that projects aren’t late
or over budget do not address the risks in following the assumptions:
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More control doesn’t reduce the bet
1. The requirements and designed features define the right solution.
2. All of the requirements must be delivered before any value can be
realised (all or nothing).
3. If all the requirements are delivered, the promised business benefits
will materialise.
Markets shift. Governance must help projects to sense and respond.
21. What if you could spread smaller bets across a number of options, and get
data faster to prove earlier what’s valuable and what’s not?
You can be a bit more scientific.
Small bets
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Small incremental investments
Why not make smaller incremental capital and operational investments
based on live business measurements?
£
t
Less inventory (regular releases)
Series of smaller investments
Smaller bets
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More informed decision-making
How do you decide whether to invest more or stop investing in a
partially successful idea, after you’ve already invested £200K?
Answer: Have an investment strategy and data to gain insights and
inform decisions. Otherwise decisions are based on gut feelings.
Why not quantify your expectations and the ongoing impact of your
investments in flash forecasts and fast actuals so you can ramp up the
performers and quickly abort the lemons?
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Apply an investor mindset
Create your investment
strategy up front based on data
with “stop-limits” and “stop-
losses”.
Analyse fresh data constantly
to gain new insights.
Manage your portfolio from an
informed position.
Otherwise you risk blowing
yourself up:
1. No edge.
2. No planning.
3. Wrong bet size.
4. No risk management.
5. Mistiming exits.
6. Out of control.
7. Not in tune with market.
8. Running before walking.
9. Emotionally unstable.
10. Not taking responsibility.
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Investment
Draw a picture showing how
financial governance like this
might work.
+ Light-weight.
+ Investment strategy.
+ Portfolio of projects.
+ Data-driven.
+ Small bets.
+ Incremental investments.
+ Sense and respond.
Discuss
Doodle and discuss.
Build up a picture.
Focus on what matters.
15 min
Rotate
2 stay with the table.
Rest rotate clockwise to the next table.
Hosts present what was discussed to
newcomers.
5 min
27. Governance is there to maximise the impact of investment - to support
work teams in delivering the most benefit for their stakeholders.
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Quantified value
Without reality-backed and
independently verifiable
measures of impact, governance
cannot effectively prioritise
between competing demands or
fairly arbitrate conflicts over
resources. +
?
Past
Trend
Record
Survival SurvivalFail
Targets
Benchmarks
Constraints[ ]!
Goal
Stretch
Wish
?
Competitive Engineering, Tom Gilb
28. Governance must understand the needs of its’ users and meet those
needs as effectively and unobtrusively as possible.
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Minimise interruption
Too much governance, or too
little, is likely to result in a
system that users choose to
avoid.
Governance can have a
significant impact on working
culture.
Tolerate it
Irritating
Glad for the
interruption
Glad for the
interruption
Not Useful Useful
Don’tExpectExpect
29. Governance provides services that support self-managing work teams -
they are both jointly responsible for achieving their goals.
Governance that views itself as the party ultimately answerable for
realizing stakeholder value opens the door to a dangerous game of over
and under responsibility.
1. Considers options, makes decision, informs leader afterwards
2. Provides options, makes recommendations to leader
3. Generates options and asks leader for decision
4. Describes the problem and asks the leader for help to solve
5. Leader solves problem; staff member watches & learns
6. Takes no responsibility – expects leader to solve problem
The Responsibility Virus, Robert Martin
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Shared responsibility
30. Governance must balance short term gains against medium and long-
term considerations for company survival. If survival requires innovation
then governance must create a safe-to-fail environment.
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Balance
BAU
Innovation
31. Supporting a robust, failure tolerant and creative work environment
requires governance to support increasing amounts of participation and
an emergent process.
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Emergence
More and more, useful change
comes not from traditional
stakeholders but from employee
insight and creativity.
Governance must adapt to the
diversity of these viewpoints and
methods of work or risk losing one
of the largest sources of value
generation it has access to.
The World Café, theworldcafe.com
Action Planning
Reflection & Exploration
Collective
Insights
Harvesting
Discoveries
Implementation
Feedback &
Assessment
Conversation
as a
Core Process
32. Discuss
Doodle and discuss.
Build up a picture.
Focus on what matters.
15 min
Rotate
2 stay with the table.
Rest rotate clockwise to the next table.
Hosts present what was discussed to
newcomers.
5 min
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Impact
If Governance is optional, what
would the top 3 most valuable
services be:
● for work teams?
● for stakeholders?
If Governance isn’t optional,
what are the top 3 things it
should NOT be:
● for work teams?
● for stakeholders?
34. Thank you for participating.
#gov4innov
@energizr @guspower @yobo
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36. Uncertainty
Measure: “Uncertainty is the lack of complete certainty, that
is, the existence of more than one possibility. The ‘true’
outcome, state, result, or value is not known.”
Quantify: By assigning probabilities to a set of
possibilities.
Example: There is a 60% chance this market will double in
five years.
Risk
Measure: “Risk is a state of uncertainty where some of the
possibilities involve a loss, catastrophe, or other undesirable
outcome.”
Quantify: By assigning probabilities and quantified losses
to a set of possibilities.
Example: There is a 40% chance the proposed oil well will
be dry, with a loss of $12 million in exploratory drilling
costs.
How to Measure Anything, Douglas Hubbard
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Risk / Handout
Risk management
Avoid by eliminating situations or activities that present it.
Transfer through insurance or other types of contracts.
Reduce by hedging your bets or reducing uncertainty.
Retain because some risks are worth assuming.
Reduce uncertainty
Information reduces uncertainty.
Reduced uncertainty improves the quality of decisions.
Improved decisions have observable consequences with
measurable value.
Value of information
The amount a decision maker would be willing to pay for
information prior to making a decision.
37. Understand the gamble
Capital investments in IT projects are made on the merits
of business cases built on assumptions.
Every time you build a feature and delay validating it with
customers you make a bet that it’s the right feature. The
more features you build and the longer you wait, the
bigger the ante gets until you’ve bet the budget on a hole-
in-one.
More control doesn’t reduce the bet
Optimising productivity so that projects aren’t late or over
budget doesn’t address the risks in the assumptions:
1. The requirements define the right solution.
2. All of the requirements must be delivered before
any value can be realised (all or nothing).
3. If all the requirements are delivered, the promised
business benefits will be realised.
Markets shift.
Governance must help projects sense and respond.
ENERGIZED WORK / HMS President Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0HJ / www.energizedwork.com
Investment / Handout
Small bets and smaller incremental investments
What if you could spread smaller bets across a number of
options, and get faster feedback from customers to prove
earlier what’s valuable and what’s not?
Why not make smaller incremental capital and operational
investments based on business measurements?
More informed decision-making
Have an investment strategy and fresh data to gain insights
and inform decisions. Otherwise decisions are based on gut
feelings.
Quantify expectations and ongoing impact of your
investments in flash forecasts and fast actuals so you can
ramp up the performers and quickly abort the lemons
Apply an investor mindset
Create your investment strategy up front with “stop-limits”
and “stop-losses”. Analyse fresh data constantly to gain new
insights.
38. Quantified Value
Governance is there to maximise the impact of investment
- to support work teams in delivering the most benefit for
their stakeholders.
Without reality-backed and independently verifiable
measures of impact, governance cannot effectively
prioritise between competing demands or fairly arbitrate
conflicts over resources.
Minimize Interruption
Governance must understand the needs of its’ users and
meet those needs as effectively and unobtrusively as
possible. Too much governance, or too little, is likely to
result in a system that users choose to avoid.
Balance
Governance must balance short term gains against
medium and long-term considerations for company
survival. If survival requires innovation then governance
must create a safe-to-fail environment.
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Impact / Handout
Emergence
Supporting a robust, failure tolerant and creative work
environment requires governance to support increasing
amounts of participation and an emergent process.
More and more, useful change comes not from traditional
stakeholders but from employee insight and creativity.
Governance must adapt to the diversity of these viewpoints
and methods of work or risk losing one of the largest
sources of value generation it has access to.
Shared Responsibility
Governance provides services that support self-managing
work teams - they are both jointly responsible for achieving
their goals.
Governance that views itself as the party ultimately
answerable for realizing stakeholder value opens the door
to a dangerous game of over and under responsibility.