Outline of Talk:
Big companies are disrupted by startups
Startups are innovating fast using agile methodologies
Southeast Asia has opportunities and yet interesting challenges
How big companies can learn from startups
Different models of innovation in Singapore
How a corporate individual can innovate in a big company
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Lean Enterprise: How Big Companies can Innovate like Startups
1. LEAN ENTERPRISE
HOW BIG COMPANIES CAN INNOVATE LIKE STARTUPS
ADRIAN TAN
@iadriantan
iadriantan@gmail.com
sg.linkedin/in/iadriantan
2. Introduction
● Entrepreneur-in-Residence
● 5 Years in Technology
● 6 Years in Education
● Founded 2 startups, 1 failed.
● Coach to hundreds of startups in Asia
● Founder Institute/ JFDI Alumni
4. Outline
● Big companies are disrupted by startups
● Startups are innovating fast using agile methodologies
● Southeast Asia has opportunities and yet interesting challenges
● How big companies can learn from startups
● Different models of innovation in Singapore
● How a corporate individual can innovate in a big company
10. WHY ARE STARTUPS IMPORTANT?
Responsible for all NET job Creation in the U.S.
http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/resources/entrepreneurship-policy-digest/the-importance-of-young-firms-for-economic-growth
27. Research
Centre
Business
Unit A
Business
Unit B
Business
Unit C
Which Business Unit? Who is the customer?
New Product/Service
already defined through
traditional BU
Skunkworks style
Away from
Customer
Lack of Feedback
Forms
Steering
Committee
1 year 1 year
20 signatures later
Sunk Cost Bias
Cannot fire team
30. Startups Big Companies
Fresh ideas
Rejuvenate corporate culture
Scout and Test new technologies
COLLABORATE
Gain market knowledge
Discover industry paint points
Economies of Scale
Gain distribution
31. Startups Big Companies
Why should I work with those
inexperienced young kids in t-shirts?
They don’t even make money?
How do they know the decision they are
making is correct?
THERE ARE MISTAKES ON THEIR
POWERPOINT SLIDES!!!!
COLLABORATE
Why will I want to help the big fat ugly
enemy?
Why should they help me?
They are so slow in making decisions!
They are spending too much time on
powerpoint slides!
CHALLENGES
32. PEOPLE
PROCESS
PRODUCT
TYPES OF COMPANIES
Awareness of Disruption
E.g. TELCOS CAR COMPANIESMEDIA BANKS
*Disclaimer: Adrian’s Working Slide
Hackathons
Innovation Labs
Corporate Accelerator
Corporate Venturing (Investment)
Acqui-Hiring
Space Sharing with Startups
Partnerships
38. ● Media Investment arm
● Partners for B2C growth
companies, especially in the
consumer goods,
● Offers TV advertising as platform
● 25K EUR Funding
● 500K EUR of
media volume on
TV
41. BANKS
Buying a bank such as Standard Chartered “is
fighting yesterday’s battle.”
“I think the battleground right now is Alibaba and
digital,” he said.
DBS CEO, Piyush Gupta