The document summarizes a panel discussion on innovation center best practices. It introduces the four panelists - Steve Guengerich, Tom Halbouty, Gregg Hansen, and Mike Millard - and includes definitions of invent, innovate, and improve. It also shares lessons learned from new ventures and discusses balancing continuity and change. Specifically, it outlines General Motors' IT transformation goals of doubling speed, tripling innovation, and increasing business value 10x through data center transformation and application simplification to enable rapid business transformation.

1. INNOTECH:
INNOVATION CENTER BEST PRACTICES
October 8, 2015
Austin Convention Center

2. Your Panel Today
Steve Guengerich Tom Halbouty Gregg Hansen Mike Millard

3. Your Panel Today
Steve Guengerich

4. Invent
Innovate
Improve

5. Definitions:
• Invent – to create or produce (something useful)
for the first time.
• Innovate – to change something that is
established, especially by introducing new
methods, ideas, or products.
• Improve – to make or become better.

6. Definitions:
• Invent
• Innovate
• Improve

7. Lessons learned & inspiration from the world of new ventures

8. Economists estimate that innovation in its various forms
accounts for 30 percent to 40 percent of the gains in
growth and productivity by the American economy
during the 20th century, more than any other factor.
- What Ideas Are Worth (SONEcon, 2011)
http://www.sonecon.com/docs/studies/Value_of_Intellectual_Capital_in_American_Economy.pdf

9. THE PROBLEM WITH “BIG”
SCALE VS. PRODUCT/MARKET FIT
Problem/
solution fit
Product/
market fit
Scale
Validated learning
Pivots
Growth
Optimizations

10. Experimenters Specialists
Every process works until you add people.
Key is harmonizing your resources with balanced investment in…

11. Innovation
Center
Specialists
Every process works until you add people.
Key is harmonizing your resources with balanced investment in…

12. Your Panel Today
Tom Halbouty

13. Plato – How do you balance continuity and change at the
same time?

14.  “There's a way to do it better—find it.” Thomas Edison
 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
(Co-founder London School of Economics)
 “Heroism and the respect it commands is a form of compensation by
society for those who take risks for others. And entrepreneurship is a
risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival
of the economy.” Nassim Taleb (Black Swan/Antifragile)
 “Herd animals benefit by the few that search for new food and water.
Those that stay in the center of the herd are the safest in the short run,
but the herd will perish without those with the curiosity and heart to
explore.” Tom Halbouty

15. PEOPLE AND INNOVATION
(1) Allen Fahden – Innovation on Demand
 Start-ups, 47% advancers
 Large corporations, 3%
advancers

16. Your Panel Today
Gregg Hansen

17. Gregg Hansen
Austin IT Innovation Center

18. THESE FORCES WITHIN INDUSTRY ARE STILL CRITICAL
 Electrification of vehicle - Chevrolet Volt
 The increasing role of Information Technology
 Connectivity of vehicle, Internet of Things – OnStar
 Autonomous Vehicles

19. GENERAL MOTORS
 Size and scale of a Fortune 6 organization
 2014 sales of more than 9.9 million vehicles, 3.4 million in North America
 Production in 31 countries and doing business in more than 120 countries
 218,000 employees and >20,000 dealers globally, 169 manufacturing/assembly facilities
worldwide
 A big family
 GM brands include Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, GMC, Holden, Opel, and Vauxhall
 In China, GM markets under Baojun, Jiefang, and Wuling brands
 OnStar offers breakthrough technology for navigation, entertainment, diagnostics,
safety and security
 The new GM – a success story
 2014 - $155.9 billion in revenue; to date, 22 consecutive profitable quarters

20. 2018
GM IT: DRIVING INNOVATION
2 GM-managed
data centers
2012
23
supplier-managed
data centers
80%
IT staff
running
day-to-day
operations
80%
IT staff
actively
engaged in
innovation
90% OUTsourced 90% INsourced

21. THE ROAD AHEAD:
IT TRANSFORMATION OBJECTIVES
 Double the speed of delivery
 Triple innovation (number of projects)
 10X business value (revenue of IT)
 Data center transformation
 Global, common applications
 Application simplification
 Extreme integration
 Reduce risk, increase reliability,
protect the enterprise
 Enable rapid business transformation
 Enterprise data warehouse
 Information, Information, Information
2016 Buick Cascada

22. Your Panel Today
Mike Millard

23. Q & A
Steve Guengerich Tom Halbouty Gregg Hansen Mike Millard

24. INNOTECH:
INNOVATION CENTER BEST PRACTICES
“That’s A Wrap!”
Thank YOU!!