Experiment Culturefor rigorous innovation

Kia ora!I am Sam RyeToday we’ll be talking about Experiment Culture

You can find me at: samrye.co & @samrye_enspiral

Impact Designer, Social Entrepreneur & Experiment Coach

currently

LET’S TALKINNOVATION

CULTUREas an everyday practice in the UAE

Government

Experimenting with new approaches to accelerate innovation in Government

InnovationCulture

““Government sector innovation involves creating,

developing and implementing innovative ideas that achieve a public benefit.”

- Government Innovation Framework

““Culture is made up of the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular

people”

Innovation Framework & Process

Courtesy of Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation

ExperimentCultureUnderlying all Innovation is a practice of experimentation and learning.

Why Experiment Culture?

Beyond inventing & ideasSpeed up learning Demonstrate

impact

Experiment Culture Framework

Innovation Practice

Innovation Strategy

Innovation Managemen

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Adapted from Corporate Innovation Ecosystems by Tendayi Viki & Lean Stack by Ash Maurya

Innovation Accounting

Innovation Realities

“Success”

Learning

Innovation Realities

PracticingCultureDeveloping a repeatable process to learn our way to success.

To improve innovation outcomes, and to hold innovation teams accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of accounting, specific to innovators.

Eric Reis (Author of Lean Startup)

Innovation Accounting

Innovation Accounting effectively helps innovators to define, measure, and communicate progress. That last part is key.

Ash Maurya

Innovation Accounting helps show the tangible progress of innovation programs &

initiatives.

Accelerating Learning

I believe running a rigorous innovation accounting process was the single most important thing we did in the first 2 years of running our innovation lab.

It allowed us to buy trust with impact.

Rigorous Innovation

Innovation AccountingHYPOTHESES

DATA

“An Initiative”

(often built on a ‘great idea’ or an assumption)

Rigorous Innovation

““No plan survives first contact with customers.”

- Steve Blank - Entrepreneur, Coach, Investor, Professor

Rigorous Innovation

“An Initiative”

Validated through several

experiments

Experiment 1

Experiment 2

Experiment 3

Experiment 4

Experiment 5

Experiment 6

Experiment 7

Experiment 7

Rigorous Innovation

Experiment Ground

Backlog Build Measure LearnExperiment 9

Experiment 10

Experiment 11

Experiment 12

Experiment 3

Experiment 6

Experiment 8 Experiment 1

Experiment 2

Experiment 5

Experiment 4

Experiment 7

Background

Hypothesis

Experiment Detail

Results

Learnings

Next Experiment

Experiment Sheet

Experiment Sheet

Rigorous Innovation

Innovation AccountingHYPOTHESES

DATA

Culture + Accounting

Innovation comes from a cultural mix of creativity and discipline.

Rigorous innovation accounting will help you go further, faster.

Thank youAny questions?Let’s continue the conversation at @samrye_enspiral & samrye.co This talk was based on my 2015 blog post.