pattern of innovation
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Innovation follows a pattern defined by extensive research. Knowledge of the pattern will allow you to discover and guide innovation at your company.TRANSCRIPT
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Riak Usage at BestBuy.com
Pattern of Innovation
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Joel Crabb, Chief Architect, BestBuy.com
What I do:
• Build scalable business platforms
• Build developer-focused work environments
• Innovate (hopefully)
10 Second Background Check
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Agenda
Define Innovation
Innovation is a Pattern
The Pattern at BestBuy.com
How Riak supported the Pattern
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“Lives are about imagination and what we can create.”
~ Ed Freeman
Lecture on Corporate Social Responsibility
6/2011
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The products and/or technologies that
change their industry or
create new industries.
Innovation Defined
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Ideas are innovative
Products are the innovation
What is Innovative?
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Example:
Rethink the game of fetch with your dog
Innovative Ideas
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Product Innovation
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Incremental Change
Category Expansion
Copying
What's Not Innovative?
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Indoor Chuckit - Category Expansion
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Innovation is scored by the marketplace
Innovation is defined after
products are created
Innovation changes industries or
creates new ones
Innovation
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The Consumer Decides Which Products are Innovations
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At Best Buy, we've decided that we must differentiate ourselves in core ECommerce technology
We have been a retail company
We will be a technology company that does retail
Innovation Will Happen
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Why Ecommerce Technology?
Clayton Christensen on architecture:
“Companies that compete with proprietary, interdependent architectures must be integrated”
~ Christensen, Clayton, The Innovator’s Solution, p. 129
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Where do you start?
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Recognize that innovation has a pattern
Look for the pattern inside your own company
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The Innovation Journey
Andrew Van de Ven
Douglas E. Polley
Raghu Garud
Sankaran Venkataraman
The Pattern of Innovation
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Initiation
Development
Implementation/Termination
Innovation Periods
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Gestation
Shock
Plans
Initiation Period
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Particular ideas resurface and are rehashed for years, often with many variations
Multiple coincidental developments set the stage for an innovative product or business
Initiation Period - Gestation
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Gestation - BestBuy.comThe operations team had
speculated for 5-6 years on how to remake its ECommerce systems
Development was extremely difficult
A Web Architecture team was formed in the Dotcom business unit in 2010
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What ideas constantly resurface in your company over the span of years?
“Many new innovative ideas may be generated but are not acted on in an organization until some form of shock occurs. Shocks served to concentrate attention and focus the efforts of diverse stakeholders in the organization.”
~ Van de Ven, p. 28-29
Finding the Pattern
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Initiation Period - ShockShocks are incidents either
internal or external that cause the company to change how it evaluates ideas
The company must change its business model and create new products to survive
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Shock
to the
System
Innovative
Ideas
Emerge
Shock - BestBuy.com
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Are you the champion?
"During opportune moments, these champions offered their organizations an idea or project as the vehicle to solve a crisis or exploit a commercial opportunity."
~ Van de Ven, p. 27
Finding the Pattern
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Also called the Roadshow
or
Finding executive sponsorship
The idea has created enough momentum that you are now
planning the budget and roadmap
Initiation Period - Plans
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Plans - BestBuy.comWe developed financials and a
roadmap to migrate off our proprietary system in 3 years
To get organizational commitment we promised to complete the project in 18 months
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Plans - Reality
“ A second consequence of the initial investment process is that it created unattainable performance expectations for most innovation projects studied”
~ Van de Ven, p. 30
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Are you truly passionate?
Reality check: this is difficult
Find anyone with organizational power and present your idea, budget, timeline and expected business benefit
Finding the Pattern
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Intertwined
Phases
Proliferation
Setbacks
Criteria Shift
Development Period
Ongoing Concerns
Wide Participation
Sponsors/Executives
Developing Relationships
Infrastructure Development
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Proliferation - ideas and scope multiply once you have funding
Setbacks - nothing goes smoothly the first time
Criteria Shift - redefine success
Intertwined Phases
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Can you focus in chaos?
The environment will try and force mediocrity on your idea, you must retain the innovative kernel and focus on industry changing innovation
Executing the Pattern
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Wide Participation - individuals from all parts of business work on the project
Sponsors/Executives - frequent steering committee meetings
Developing Relationships - support needed throughout organization and externally
Infrastructure Development - key components are need both internal and external
Ongoing Concerns
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Infrastructure Development
Key components and tools are needed
External partners co-develop infrastructure
Riak and the Pattern
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Requires communication and community
"The industry infrastructure for an innovation system does not emerge and change all at once by the actions of one or even a few key individuals."
~ Van de Ven, p. 162
Infrastructure Development
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Executing the Pattern
Identify infrastructure you can create and infrastructure others can create for you.
Infrastructure may be public, government established, or created jointly with competitors.
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Product Catalog was a proprietary system
Data is inaccessible outside of Dotcom
The product data is the fulcrum for moving BestBuy.com off the proprietary system
Infrastructure - BestBuy.com
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We selected Riak in 2010 because:
• Designed for redundancy
• Masterless
• Scalable
Riak as Product Catalog
However the main reason was we felt that Basho would work
with us
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Worked with us to improve:
Search
Replication
Tuning
Co-Development occurred
Basho - Infrastructure Partner
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Implementation or Termination
Once in production or once the product launches, the market decides
Or, your management decides by terminating before launch
Final Period
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Final PeriodHarsh reality: you only get one
shot.
“in no instances where innovations were judged as failures by top managers or investors were the innovation entrepreneurs offered another opportunity to manage a subsequent innovation.”
~ Van de Ven, p. 63
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Innovation follows a pattern
Infrastructure development requires partners
For Best Buy, Basho has supplied crucial infrastructure
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Pattern of Innovation
Source: Van de Ven, p. 25