Leaders in the innovation age champion grand challenges, install experimentation cultures and systems, learn from successes and failures, and lead by example. They remove barriers to experimentation. Intuit experiments to improve customers' financial lives, such as increasing farmer incomes in India by 10% through an SMS price notification service which was tested through numerous experiments. Leaders establish a vision and culture of experimentation to drive meaningful change.
11. The role of leaders
in the innovation age
Leaders champion a grand challenge
Leaders install experimentation culture and systems
Leaders pull insights from successes and failures
Leaders live by the same rules themselves
#agilelead
17. Vision:
Raise farmer incomes by 10%
Farmers don't know
which mandi agent
offers the best price
WOM drives scale
advantage in fixed
cost structure
Text today's prices by
agent to the farmers
TA – Fasal
Green Chilli
Padra 75-95
Agent 9765590632
Baroda 80-95
Agent 9354240167
Ahmedabad 85-95
Agent 9845540421
TM - Fasal
Green Chilli
Padra 75-95
Agent 9765590632
Baroda 80-95
Agent 9354240167
Ahmedabad 85-95
Agent 9845540421
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18. Lean Experiment Loop Leap of faith assumptions
• Enough agents will give us prices
• Agents will honor the prices they give us
• Typically illiterate farmers can read SMS
• Farmers will change behaviors based on SMS
• Farmers will perceive they got a better price
• We can monetize (user pay? ads?)
• Revenue will exceed costs
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19. • Pilot test: 15 farms
• Saturation test: 102 farms
• Data collection tests
• Farmer acquisition tests
• Pull vs. push messaging tests
• Alternate crop test
• Price test
• Advertising tests
• Lead gen tests
• Outsource sales test
Experiment
Farmer take home
income
+20%
1.2 million farmers
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22. Vision:
Start-to-finish taxes in 10 minutes or less for easy filers
Taxes take too long
and seem too scary
Fixed cost
leverage: reuse TurboT
ax tax calc and e-file
engines
Use the smartphone’s camera
to streamline data entry and
minimize questions
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30. The role of leaders
in the innovation age
Leaders champion a grand challenge
Leaders install experimentation culture and systems
Leaders pull insights from successes and failures
Leaders live by the same rules themselves
#agilelead
32. The role of leaders
in the innovation age
Leaders champion a grand challenge
Leaders install experimentation culture and systems
Leaders pull insights from successes and failures
Leaders live by the same rules themselves
#agilelead
33. Change lives so profoundly
people can’t imagine going
back to the old way.
Scott Cook
Founder #agilelead
Brad Smith
CEO
Editor's Notes
Can game-changing innovation flourish in a large successful firm? Can entrepreneurs thrive inside a large successful firm? Can they exist at all? This is Brad and my journey. A journey to a new kind of leadership. Leadership for the innovation age. I’ll quickly cover some things we’ve learned, then show four examples that show the ideas at work. Then Brad and I will do the best we can to answer your questions.
It starts with why are we in business
How does a company pick where to play?
How do you find the big problem you can solve?
Decisions are based on predictions. Predictions often of peoples’ behaviors.
Change “position” to design.
Change the color of the people to make them a bit more visible.
Make the “$ trumpet”more acute. A little bigger on the right side…and very narrow on the left side so that at the left origin it’s just a single white line with no space or dollar signs.
BTW, This looks really good.
Don’t grey out the words…instead have them disappear as the “users” moves left.
Leave the word “decision”…ie it will slide to the right, so it winds up to the right of final position of “users”
Change “position” to “design”
Remove the ampersand (&)
Turn “The problem” into a build
Only leaders can install the systems and the culture than enables new employees to run experiments…and have those decisions make the decisions. Leaders have to set the grand challenges that inspire teams to pioneer where no one has gone before.
Here are the four things we think we’ve learned. Here’s how they work together.
This is a story from Intuit India.
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Farmers know their entire income depends on the price they get from the agent who buys their crops. But farmers don’t know which agent will give them the best price today.
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Turn “The problem” into a build
Let’s helicopter up. How does this change leadership of companies?
Turn “The problem” into a build
Helicopter up to the country level.
One build: Make the entire block of text beginning with “grand challenges are:” into one build
Add logos where indicated in grey
Two builds: Each row of logo/boxes are one build