'Design Thinking' Methods for Disrup4ve Innova4on
Fedoriv Hub | Bionic University
Dr. Burton Lee PhD MBA European Entrepreneurship & Innova1on
Stanford Engineering School, Silicon Valley, CA
www.StanfordEuropreneurs.org || @Europreneurs
Kyiv, Ukraine Oct 13 2015
ObservaDons from Ukraine & Europe • Visits to leading UA ICT companies (Prom.UA, playtech), KPI
• 7 years working in Europe with tech startups, corpora1ons, investors, universi1es, engineering and business professors & schools, governments and the European Commission – Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Croa1a, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech, Germany, UK, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
– Collabora1ons with European universi1es in Ireland, Finland, France, Germany
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European Startup Teams OIen Miss These Key AcDviDes
• Develop too few product/service concepts – Have just 1-‐2 ideas
• Too few interac1ons with real users/customers – 2-‐3 discussions vs mee1ng/observing 00’s – Don’t make serious effort to go into market, understand customers and the market
– Develop li`le sense of market segments: high, middle, low • Build insufficient prototypes
– 1 or 2 vs 10 vs 500 • Test prototypes with too few real users • Start with the Wrong Ques1ons About User Needs
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
DR. BURTON LEE PHD MBA
STANFORD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | INNOVARIUM VENTURES
WWW.STANFORDEUROPRENEURS.ORG
@EUROPRENEURS
Map of PresenDng Speaker NaDonaliDes
European Entrepreneurship & InnovaDon @ Stanford Engineering
(ME421)
Winter 2015 – Year Seven
Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley
Ghent, Flanders Region Belgium
iMinds ICT Research InsDtute
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January 13 @ Stanford Engineering Uwe Horstmann, Project-‐A Ventures (DE) & Signe Viimsalu, Estonian Business Angels (EE)
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Topics Covered
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Equity Crowdfunding
European Entry Strategies for Valley Startups
East v West Europe
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The Story of European Entrepreneurship in Europe Europe vs Silicon Valley
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Entrepreneurship and InnovaDon in Europe Today
Europe vs Silicon Valley
Europeans in Silicon Valley
Arts, Culture, Design, Language
& Tradi1ons
History & Poli1cs
Law & Policy
Ins1tu1ons & Personali1es
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Using ‘Design Thinking’
An Example of How One Silicon
Valley Company Re-imagined the Shopping Experience
and the Shopping Cart
A ‘Lean Startup’ Approach to Early Stage Entrepreneurship Educa1on
Product-‐Market Fit
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Elements of ‘Design Thinking’ • Needs Finding
– Direct Observa1on of Users and User Behaviors – User Surveys and Ques1onnaires – Interviews – Shadowing – Understanding & Iden1fying Proper Context for New Products/Services
• IdeaDon – Improvisa1on – Storytelling – Storyboarding – Use Case Analysis
• Prototyping – ‘Soj Prototyping’ of products/services
• IteraDon – Pivo1ng
• QuesDon-‐Asking – Asking the ‘Right Ques1on’ | Knowing ‘Wrong Ques1ons’
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Observe Real Customers & Customer Behavior
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Soj Prototyping Materials & Tools • Paper • Cardboard • Plas1c • Wooden s1cks • Post-‐it Notes • Cloth • Sketches • Scissors • Tape • Glue • Staplers • Markers
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Actual Product Design Process (generally not linear for new products and untested markets)
Search for Product-‐Market Fit
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Key DT Methodologies
• Idea1on • Needs Finding • Ques1on Asking | Listening | Watching • Assump1ons Challenging • Storytelling • Soj Prototyping • Itera1on • User Context Seeking
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‘Storytelling’ is An EssenDal Part of Design Thinking
• Role playing (ac1ng) • Storyboarding • Ar1fact crea1on • Use case analysis • Improvisa1on (ac1ng) • PPT presenta1on • Architecture & ecosystem diagrams
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What is Different About ‘Design Thinking’? • Avoids ‘Hard Engineering’ ac1vi1es, expenditures and commitments for as long as Possible
• Combines many ‘hard’ & ‘soj’ disciplines: – Sociology Design – Psychology Art & Drawing – Anthropology – Human Factors – HandiCrajs & Making Things – Business – Engineering & Architecture
• Searches for disrup've and new crea1ve approaches to solving societal problems and marketplace gaps
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Design Challenges from Ukraine
• Personal security system for ci1es
• Wounded soldier ba`lefield survival and care system
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Personal Security System for CiDes
• What are personal dangers & risks faced by ordinary ci1zens in Ukraine’s ci1es?
• How would you get their input? • How many people would you talk to? • What does one of your soj prototypes look like?
• What would it do? How would it use technology to make ci1zens safer?
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Wounded Soldier Bahlefield Survival and Care System
• What are personal dangers & risks faced by ordinary soldiers in Ukraine’s war?
• What are top 5 injuries faced by soldiers? • How would you get their input? • How many people would you talk to? • What does one of your soj prototypes look like?
• What would it do? How would it use technology to make soldiers safer/receive faster or be`er medical treatment?
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What Each Team Needs to Figure Out
• What is the problem? • Who is the end user? • How does your system help to solve the problem?
• How did you arrive at your tenta1ve solu1on? • How would you test this further in the marketplace?
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The Two Ukrainian Design Teams Go Off for 20
Minutes to Work on Their First ‘SoS Prototype’
Solu4ons …
What We Do in Silicon Valley • We build and grow (“scale”) companies to a global level faster – and more efficiently – than anywhere else in the world
• We create more new jobs and industries – faster – than anywhere globally
• We look for and reward disrupDve ideas, technologies, teams and intellectual property that can be scaled globally
• We do world class research and technology development
• We design, build and manufacture great technology products and services
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CharacterisDcs of ‘DisrupDve InnovaDon’
• Exponen1al ‘fast’ adop1on (months or years) • Slow adop1on (decades) • Consumer vs enterprise • Sojware vs hardware • Viral growth (network effects, typically consumer) • DI is coming more ojen, over broader sectors of private and public life, led by IT advances
• Capital requirements can vary greatly • Social upheavals (some1mes) vs ‘Crea1ve Destruc1on’
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Android & iPhone “Disrup've Innova'on” via New Business Models + Advanced Product Design
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Smart Phone “Company-‐Busters” New Products and Services for Global Markets
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Smart Phone Growth
• Technological Innova1on – Miniaturiza1on, new interface technologies
• Design Innova1on – Deep customer ‘touch’ & engagement
• Plarorm Innova1on – AppStore, iCloud
• Business Model Innova1on – Unit sales + AppStore + iCloud +++
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Key Points to Discuss
• What is the problem? • Who is the end user? • How does your system help to solve the problem?
• How did you arrive at your tenta1ve solu1on? • How would you test this further in the marketplace?
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Cau4onary Note • Due to 1me limita1ons, the two Ukrainian teams and par1cipants did not experience or demonstrate a full Design Thinking process.
• We presented this evening a short abbreviated example of what one cycle of a larger Design Thinking exercise might look like, using two problem areas that are understood and of interest to many Ukrainians.
• To be more fully realis1c, both teams would have needed to spend substan1al 1me directly with their target users, and to iterate through numerous ‘soj prototypes’ and user engagement interac1ons.
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THANK YOU Dr. Burton Lee PhD MBA Stanford School of Engineering [email protected]
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Working in Silicon Valley, Europe, LaDn America and Washington DC
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• Dr. Burton Lee PhD MBA, Managing Director – Contact: [email protected] Based in Palo Alto, CA near Stanford University – Bio/References: LinkedIn Profile – Lecturer, European Entrepreneurship & Innova1on, Stanford School of Engineering
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