Ted Tencza CTO - finder.com.au @darthted

! Incremental""! Disruptive

Types of Innovation

Only going to talk about incremental

Do● Make failure to innovate and failure to try the only unacceptable failures

● Encourage and celebrate innovation

● Have planned innovation

● Be data driven

Includes celebrating non-innovative work that is outside of scope. If you always demand developers do only what is asked, will never see innovation. Be cross team, cross functional. Can’t improve business if you don’t know it. Encourage devs to sit with users. "Have mechanism for feedback Give safe environment for innovation Align incentives with innovation ""Small changes can lead to big results. Esp with incremental innovation "Have space and time dedicated, but also available during non-planned innovation

Don’t● Expect everything to work

● Limit to planned innovation activities

● Stress over ROI for individual experiments

● Build barriers to innovation

o Don’t allow others to build barriers either

Barries: Saying no Tight deadlines for every project Org Culture Not seeing the barriers - Individuals, Teams, Organizational, Technical, Cultural

Final Thoughts

Failure is always an option

Make failure to innovate and failure to try the only unacceptable failures.

Thank You