Container Ships

&Speedboats

Janet Bumpas

Executives

Innovators

InternalEcosystem

Executives

Innovators

Innovators

Your first idea is not always a

good idea

23% of startupsthat fail, fail due to

wrong team

CB Insights: The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

So what makes a

good team?

If you can’t feed a team with two

pizza’s, it’s too large.Jeff Bezos

CEO and Founder Amazon

Two Pizza Team?

Skillset ToolsetMindset

HustlerHacker Hipster

Ownership(80%)

Never Give Up(20%)

Misfits

InternalEcosystem

Executives

Innovators

Executives:Set Vision &

Create Environment

1. Strategic Alignment

2. Portfolio Management

Horizon 1

Horizon 2

Horizon 3

Time

Mature Business

0-12 monthsGenerates

today’s cash flow

Emerging Business36-72 Months

Options on future high growth businesses

Rapidly Growing or Adjacent

Market Business12-36 Months

Today’s revenue growth and

tomorrow’s cash flow

H1 H2 H3

Google 70% 20% 10%

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale Lean. O'Reilly. Dec 4, 2014. Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O’Reilly

Intuit 60% 30% 10%

Executives:Set Vision &

Create Environment

Safe Sandbox

AlignmentProtection

Investing time, money, and

resources before having results

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

How long does it take corporate

ventures, on average, to become

profitable?

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

How many had a positive cash flow in

the first two years?

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses

Innovation Accounting

InternalEcosystem

Executives

Innovators

Speedboat Container Ship

Our first five ideas failed. No bonus for you this year!

Speedboat Container Ship

We made it up Denied.

Can we have some money? What’s your ROI?

Speedboat Container Ship

Totally brand new product! Does that fit our brand guidelines?

Innovators Container Ships

This new product is going to be huge!

That’s not in my three year plan. Sorry

Speedboat Container Ship

I just made up an unbranded fake door experiment

Oh, no, no.Those are not approved.

Speedboat Container Ships

We’ve talked with lots of customers and….

Who gave you permission to talk to them?

Innovation Culture

Can I have a picture from a Philips masterclass?

Your first idea is not always a

good idea

Thank You

Janet.Bumpas@scaleupnation.com