janet balneaves - skyscanner: our journey from traditional marketing to growth
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Janet Balneaves@janetbalneaves | @SkyscannerGrwth
ABANDONING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
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@SkyscannerGrwth
Alice: This is impossible.The Mad Hatter : Only if you believe it is.
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Exponential and very healthy growth
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@SkyscannerGrwth
40m app downloads
50m unique monthly visitors
Tech company first & foremost: 50% Software Engineers
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What Worked for us Yesterday,Is Painful Today,Will be Broken Tomorrow.
@richardlennox - Skyscanner
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Life before Growth
Conventional Wisdom is King
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Functional Siloes Across Teams
Product Engineering Marketing
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Best Time to Book
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Best Time to Book
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Homepage
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Homepage
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Product Experiments
@SkyscannerGrwth
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What to change?
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Principles
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Aligned Autonomy
Spotify – Henrik Kniberg
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@SkyscannerGrwth
Growth Ninja
Impact-driven, focused on outcomes
T-shaped avid learner
Agile & lean mentality
Addicted to metrics and data
Product obsessed
Customer Focused
Experimental Scientific Method
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Data Science
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Product Manager
Software Engineer
Growth Marketer
Data Scientist Designer
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Starting Up
Building Supply
Achieving Product Market Fit
Preparing for Hypergrowth
Hypergrowth
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Growth Tribes
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Central Growth Tribe
EMEA Regional Growth Tribe
AMER Regional Growth Tribe
APAC Regional Growth Tribe
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@SkyscannerGrwth
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Effecting Change
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Learning
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Open Communication
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Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
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Life in Growth
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Growth Experiments
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Best Time To Book 2016
2016…?
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Best Time to Book 2016
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Tooling
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• Lean Start Up• Growth Mindset• Aligned & Autonomous Teams• Supporting & Encouraging• Continuous Improvement
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This Won’t Work for you
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ABANDONING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM