Most organisations now understand why they need insights on customers’ needs and behaviours to drive customer-centred outcomes within agile teams. But many organisations struggle to convert insights from their quantitative and qualitative research into value that actually gets delivered to customers.
And whilst many organisations are employing researchers, and building agile teams, organisational behaviours—at a team level, and also at a leadership level—often get in the way of those teams converting insights into value, leaving teams feeling lost at sea.
But there are behaviours and principles that teams and leaders can put into practice to create an culture of effective experimentation based on insights. By being more human, we can enable our teams to deliver efficient value to customers, and even within the organisation itself.
Come with Julia Birks and Dave Calleja on a swashbuckling journey, as we show you how to navigate the oft-treacherous waters of organisational culture, to help your teams reach the mystical location we call Value Atoll.
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2. Julia Birks
Strategic Design Lead, Isobar
Twitter @juliabirks
Dave Calleja
Associate Design Director -
Experimentation
Twitter @davecalleja
Introductions
3.
4.
5. Insights Island
How do you even decide what
you’re building?
Do you want profits???
SERIOUSLY.
If you’re not
collecting insights
around users’
needs, start doing
it NOW!
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6. Insights Island: A scary slide you need to pay attention to
“Our customers will
show us what
they need”
“We know better
than our customers”
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17%
3%
CX Leaders CX laggards
Compound average revenue growth 2010-15
Source: June 21, 2016 “Customer Experience Drives Revenue Growth, 2016” Forrester report
11. Lesson 3:
Get to Value Atoll by creating
an experimentation culture
12.
13. Ways of working
that enable
experimentation
AKA The speedboat
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14. Ways of Working
Principles over
process
Create guiding principles
Maximise opportunities
to deliver value
Don’t be a process zealot!
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15. Design and deliver
it together
Ways of Working
Diverse teams
From gender to skills
Minimise silos
Maximise knowledge sharing
Design with users
Customers and staff
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16. Every good team needs a coach
Ways of Working
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17. Value lives in
the middle
DESIRABILITY
VIABILITY FEASIBILITY
Ways of Working
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18. Desirable and feasible?
You can’t service it or
afford it
Desirable and viable?
It’s a great idea that can’t
be built
Viable and feasible?
No customer wants it
Value lives in
the middle
Ways of Working
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19. Value lives in
the middle
DESIRABILITY
VIABILITY FEASIBILITY
Ways of Working
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21. Run all the
experiments
Refinement Exploration
Best solution
is missed
Many alternate
solutions explored
Ways of Working
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22. Run all of the experiments
Run all the experiments
ANZ Small Business ATM
25. Don’t fail —
disprove your
hypothesis
Culture of Enablement
‘Fail fast, fail often’ is a goal
Promote learning through
experimentation
“I have a hypothesis, let’s go
and test it”
Accept and celebrate killing ideas
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26. Democratise
your ideas
Culture of Enablement
Evidence based decision making
Empower everyone
to contribute ideas
Establish an idea or
experiment framework
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27. Experimentation Framework - Hypothesis & Ideation
IF
OPPORTUNITY OR CHALLENGE
Any aspect of the experience or system
which could be improved
This is not the specific change e.g
moving an element on a page.
THEN
PREDICTED RESULT
What is the expected outcome of the
solution?
How will the business or user be
impacted?
BECAUSE
RATIONALE
Why do we believe the result will occur?
What insights inform this?
PROFESSIONAL HUNCH QUALITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE DATA
PRIMARY METRIC SECONDARY/MONITORING METRICS TARGET / AUDIENCE
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28. Experimentation Framework - Planning & Development
Plann
BUSINESS & CUSTOMER IMPACT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT EFFORT DURATION
LOW HIGHLEVEL OF EFFORT
DEGREEOFIMPACTHIGHLOW
QUICK WINS
HARD SLOGS
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29. “...When you are lacking in faith,
Others will be unfaithful to you…”
- Lao Tzu, writing in the Tao Te Ching
Culture of Enablement
Unblock issues
Trust teams to try, be like
the bumpers in bowling
Develop skills and
confidence
Enable autonomy,
mastery, and purpose
Foster servant
leadership
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30. Lead by doing
Culture of Enablement
Organisational
belief
Team/group belief
Professional belief
Self belief
Structure
Business benefits
Governance
Strategy and vision
Ways of working
Team dynamics
Vision alignment
Future skills
Quality & craft
Mastery
Fulfillment
Wellness
Social Connections
Purpose
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32. Bringing it all together
Define & Ideate
Discover & Learn Design & Build
Deliver & Test
Form & Align
Review Prepare
Test
A case study
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33. Run all of the experiments
Bringing it all together
Finding wins