Last week, we were at The Lean Startup Conference out in San Francisco—powering up and drinking in inspiration.
Obviously, we want to share with you a few of our favorite talks. The talks below are from Thursday’s lineup and we’ve grouped them together since they’re mostly about corporate innovation. We’ve got a list of favorites from Wednesday’s talks, too.
How HP Shipped Faster—Much Faster by Kathryn Kuhn
It’s no secret that product leaders in big companies who need to test new ideas quickly are often stuck with slow release cycles and rigid team processes. How can you overcome the legacy approach? Kathryn Kuhn discusses the calculated tradeoffs her Hewlett-Packard innovation team made in order to speed up its product development cycle, bringing a complex product to market in a matter of months.
Convince Colleagues to Use Lean Startup: The Stealth Approach by Blair Beverly
When a team at Google felt uncertain about which pieces of their work drove real value for customers and had an impact on the bottom line, Blair Beverly, a Manager in Google AdSense, suggested they try Lean Startup methods. He explains how he’s working to win over colleagues and management, using a counter-intuitive process to adopt the ideas.
Case Study: Lean Product Development in a Very Big Organization by Susana Jurado and María Olano
Telefonica, a Spanish broadband and telecommunications company, is one of the largest mobile network providers in the world. What happened when the employees wanted to experiment with a new handset idea? Susana Jurado and Maria Olano, Innovation Managers at the company, have a detailed and instructive story to tell this afternoon–and in an on-stage experiment, they preview that talk from the main stage.
How We Funded 1,000 Experiments by Mark Randall
What would happen if your organization funded every single new product idea from any employee, no questions asked? This past year, Adobe did exactly that. Mark Randall, Chief Strategist, VP of Creativity, shares surprising lessons and tangible results from Adobe’s new Kickbox process–including details about how experimentation has transformed good staff into great innovators.
