Lean Enterprise
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The document outlines strategies for cultivating a culture of continuous experimentation and learning within businesses to achieve a lean, adaptable enterprise. It emphasizes the importance of high performance, decision-making transparency, and creating a learning environment while leveraging innovation portfolios. The content includes references to various frameworks, methodologies, and examples, encouraging organizations to be proactive in exploring, exploiting, sustaining, and retiring their projects and strategies.
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 1
- 2. WHY IS IT SO HARD? 2
- 3. WHO’S IDEA WAS THIS? 3Purple Flying Hippo, http://earcl01.deviantart.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 8
- 10. 10 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
- 11. 11 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
- 12. 12Online Experimentation at Microsoft, http://ai.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/ExPThinkWeek2009Public.pdf
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- 16. SAFE TO FAIL EXPERIMENTS 16
- 17. LIMIT LOSS, RAMP UP SUCCESS 17Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- 21. BUSINESS MODEL STRATEGIES 21 Explore ▫︎Uncertainty ▫︎Complex ▫︎Emergent ▫︎Experimental Exploit ▫︎Improved understanding ▫︎Cause and effect ▫︎Accumulated knowledge ▫︎Forecast
- 22. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 23. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 24. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 25. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 26. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 27. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire 22
- 28. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire kill (at any point) 22
- 29. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire kill (at any point) 22
- 30. INNOVATION PORTFOLIO explore exploit sustain retire kill (at any point) disrupt 22
- 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 24
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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 26
- 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? 27
- 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 28
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- 38. MAKE IT YOUR OWN No Silver Bullets Smoking Bullet, https://www.flickr.com/photos/blgphoto/4928695143
- 39. IMPROVEMENT KATA 31 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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