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SDNC13 -DAY2- There is no Innovation Fast-lane by Lizzie Shupack
2. T H E R E I S N O I N N O VAT I O N FA S T L A N E
( A N D O T H E R L E S S O N S L E A R N E D W H I L E T R Y I N G T O O V E R TA K E )
SDN 2013
Lizzie Shupak
Innovation Director
lizzie.shupak@lbi.com
@lizzieshupak
11. “ A lot of people… haven’t had very diverse
experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to
connect, and they end up with very linear
solutions without a broad perspective on the
problem. The broader one’s understanding of the
human experience, the better design we will
have.”
Steve Jobs
16. Hard questions
• What don't you know about the problem you are trying to
solve?
• What has been tried before?
• What is the hardest bit? Of what are you least certain?
• What is the greatest risk?
18. Recipe
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Identify a real problem you are facing
Break the problem down into sub-problems
Grade each one based on how confident you are of solving it
Choose the sub-problem in which you have least confidence
Design an experiment to help solve it
Repeat as necessary
20. Define the problem
What is the real problem you are trying to solve?
Who has the problem? How will things be better when you have solved it?
Give
a
smartphone
app
to
our
customers
so
that
they
can
read
their
meters
accurately
just
by
pointing
their
phone
cameras
at
the
meter.
21. What are the sub-problems?
What smaller problems do you need to solve in order to solve the big one?
Get
software
in
the
phone
to
recognise
an
electricity
meter
2
Take
a
quality
photograph
of
a
meter
in
difficult
conditions
3
Extract
the
numeric
meter
reading
from
the
image
of
the
meter
2
Display
the
meter
reading
to
the
customer
and
send
it
to
our
billing
system
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26. The value of experiments
• Demonstrate that the problem deserves further
investment (or not)
• Use the story of your experiment to win others over
• Uncover and retain knowledge and insight regardless of
the outcome