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 business are we in, and how can we organize to maximise our performance”. This keynote will discuss how to embrace a culture of continuous experimentation and learning, to adapt our organizations design, and transform our business to an adaptable, resilient Lean Enterprise.

1. how to embrace a culture of
continuous experimentation and
learning, to transform our
business to an adaptable,
resilient Lean Enterprise.
@barryoreilly #LeanEnterprise
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2. WHY IS IT SO HARD?
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3. WHO’S IDEA WAS THIS?
3Purple Flying Hippo, http://earcl01.deviantart.com

4. 4http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com

5. 5http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com

6. 6http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com

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8. NETFLIX CULTURE MANIFESTO
Provide a principles based framework of the culture to tell
people how they are expected to perform;
▫︎Values are what we value
▫︎High performance
▫︎Freedom and responsibilities
▫︎Context, not control
▫︎Highly aligned but loosely coupled
▫︎Pay to of the market
▫︎Promotions and development
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9. THOUGHTWORKS MANIFESTO
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ALIGN PEOPLE TO THE WORK
▫︎Provide Leadership
▫︎Foster good decision making by creating visibility
and transparency
▫︎Hire and retain the right people
▫︎Create a learning environment
▫︎Purpose, Mastery, Autonomy

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

12. 12Online Experimentation at Microsoft, http://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/ExPThinkWeek2009Public.pdf

13. 13Microsoft

14. SAVING HIPPOS FACE
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16. SAFE TO FAIL EXPERIMENTS
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17. LIMIT LOSS, RAMP UP SUCCESS
17Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

18. INNOVATION HORIZONS
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21. BUSINESS MODEL STRATEGIES
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Explore
▫︎Uncertainty
▫︎Complex
▫︎Emergent
▫︎Experimental
Exploit
▫︎Improved understanding
▫︎Cause and effect
▫︎Accumulated knowledge
▫︎Forecast

22. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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23. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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24. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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25. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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26. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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27. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
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28. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
kill
(at any point)
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29. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
kill
(at any point)
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30. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO
explore exploit sustain retire
kill
(at any point)
disrupt
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32. EXPLORE
▫︎Cross-functional multi-disciplined teams
▫︎Lots of small bets
▫︎Safe to fail experiments - only failure, is failure to learn
▫︎Enough funding to do something, but no so much as to
do nothing
▫︎Create a sense of urgency
▫︎Demonstrable evidence of value to proceed
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34. EXPLOIT
▫︎Kill projects, create end to end value stream customer
facing teams
▫︎Continuous evaluation for funding model
▫︎Achieving break even point
▫︎Data-driven fact based decisions
▫︎Maintain a sense of urgency
▫︎Set a vision, trust the team to get there, clear blockers
and support as they proceed
▫︎Make sharing and organizational learning easy
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35. SUSTAIN
▫︎Beware of feature factory fallacy
▫︎Keep laser focus on what is valuable - where we can win
▫︎Do no get lazy, success hides sub-optimal issues
▫︎Keep discipline with fact based decisions
▫︎What is being used, improved or removed?
▫︎How could we disrupt or get disrupted - do we care?
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36. RETIRE
▫︎Has it serviced its purpose? Sunset
▫︎It is providing value? Kill it?
▫︎Are there better opportunities to invest in?
▫︎Remove product and system complexity
▫︎Simplify to support further innovation
▫︎Free up funds and capability
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38. MAKE IT YOUR OWN
No Silver Bullets
Smoking Bullet, https://www.flickr.com/photos/blgphoto/4928695143

39. IMPROVEMENT KATA
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Mike Rother, Toyota Kata
Toyota Kata defines management as,
“the systematic pursuit of desired conditions by
utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.”

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