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Mark Randall | Chief Strategist, VP Creativity

Driving Grass Roots Innovation


Three kinds of innovation

2

Incremental

New Features



8

Incremental Sustaining

New Features New Products



10

Incremental Sustaining Disruptive

New Features New Products New Businesses

Adobe KickStartNew personal innovation process

KICKSTART

Turning developers into entreprenuers

able to create their own innovative

ideas and test them with customers.

KickStart Principles• Small bets

• Data driven

• High speed

• Decentralized

• Scalable


OLD SCHOOL

Idea generation

Select ------------------------------->

Develop

External test (beta)

Launch


KICKSTART• Idea generation

• Externally validate value prop

• Improve and iterate

• Select ------------------------------------------>

• Externally test prototype

• Optimize and iterate

• Select ------------------------------------------>

• Develop & test rolling releases ------------->

• Launch

MeasureCustomerBehavior

Adobe’s

Innovator

Toolbox

Everything an employee needs

to begin innovating in one box


Six StepProcess


What happens if you beat the red box?


You Get a Blue Box


$1,000

40 Hours


Sugar

Caffiene


Validation: Because talking to users isn’t data.

It reveals hypotheses to test.


Value must be measured in it’s

natural environment

[email protected] @markran

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