Startup teams when fused with corporate innovation can be a powerful combination. These teams have the potential to either deliver an atomic amount of value or completely blow-up the culture of the core business. This session presents learnings from a decade of creating startup-style product teams both inside and outside corporations. Explore how to tune your reactor of innovation or product development, colliding process with teams in new ways.
Fresh Eggs
Jon has spent 15 years in large, heavily-regulated, financial service companies launching new services, products and teams both B2C and B2B. He's been part of deploying startup-style innovation labs inside organizations like the Federal Reserve, H&R Block and GEHA Insurance. He continues to coach teams on applying design thinking and lean startup practices to get unstuck in working differently and working together.
He has also been a speaker and community builder, co-creating various local organizations in Kansas City including the UXPA community, Code 4 America Brigade, Design Thinking Meetup and Corporate Innovation Breakfast. He has spoke at SXSW and other national events on the future of design and corporate teaming.
Jon is most excited by the empathy and sense-making we can bring to not only our customers outside, but to the teams working at the boundary inside.