Creating A Culture of Experimentation

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BRITE Conference Presentation by Kaaren Hanson, Vice President Design Innovation, Intuit.

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From:Traditional Thinking

To:Culture of Experimentation

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= 2 + 6

= 4 X 2

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Discovery of what is “right”.The so-called “correct” answer.

Discovery of what WORKS.An infinity of POSSIBLE answers.

Rapid Customer Experiments

observe idea

analyze&

present decision design build

launch&

market users

observe idea

analyze&

present decision design build

launch&

market users

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analyze&

present

designbuildtest decision design build

launch&

market users

Merlin GoConnect

Traditional Waterfall

Tota

l Spent

to D

ate

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Act

ive U

sers

Better business results: Total spent and resulting users

SnapTax

Experiment Early & Often

Grand ChallengeCreate new business that improve financial lives of Indian farmers

Deep Customer Immersion

Vision: Raise farmer incomes by 10%

TM - Fasal

Green Chilli

Padra 75-95

Agent 9765590632

Baroda 80-95

Agent 9354240167

Ahmedabad 85-95

Agent 9845540421

+20% farm income

-75%cost/farmer

2010 2011 2012

CustomerBenefit Active Users Ops Cost

Happier Customers

Why Experiment?

Better Business Results

More Engaged Employees

Intuit: A Culture of Experimentation

From a handful…

2008

Encompassing all areas …

• Legal• Customer Care• Marketing

• Product• IT• HR

2012

To over 1300 experiments

8,000 innovators & entrepreneurs

threelessons learned

fall in love with the problem…

not the solution

scrappy does not mean crappy

there is no right answer other than getting started…