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June 2015, Vladyslav Kurmaz

Startup injection for Corporations

Is symbiosis possible?

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Beyond Good & Evil

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ITSM

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Business domain

• ITSM – IT Service Management

IT assets management, provisioning, helpdesk, monitoring, analytics, BYOD, XaaS, CAC, etc.

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Motivation

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Why

• Company should evolve to be successful

• They are monolithic, hierarchical, inert

• Buying start-up is expensive or/and risky

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Innovations: Where are they?

Awesome Idea

Good Idea Fight zone

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Dev team R&D issues

• Lack of time• Resource sharing

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Incubator

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Key elements

• Standalone team

• Monitor IT trends (research, whitepapers)• Generate ideas (presentations)• Develop PoCs (up-and-running solutions)

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Team member

• Senior+• Experience in more than 2

business domains• Proactive

• ~6 months, ~30 interviews to find one person

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How are all these people?

Startupper with mortgage

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Innovations

industrial scale

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Ideas are in the air

• 99% - many people already thought about it

• 90% - product is under construction

• 80% - solution is available on the market

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Brilliant idea and Diamond solution

Don't even try to sell bottled water to fish underwater

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Everything is a remix

Copy CombineTransform

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Workflow

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Environment

• 1-2-3 engineers per project• 2-4 simultaneous projects per one engineer• Minimalistic management• 1 team meeting per week (if needed)• 1 demo meeting per week (if needed)• Jira + Confluence

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Whole life in one picture

Result

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Agile

Waterfall

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lost profits

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PoC

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Stats, KPIs,Acceptance criteria

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Magic numbers

• ~20 team members• < 5% of PoCs become new products or develop valuable

features• ~1-2 year(s) from idea to production• >10 road-mapped ideas per year, 1 new product per

year

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How does it work:Vehicle-as-a-Software

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Mobile devices

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Facts

• Consolidation around a few platforms (Android, iOS, WP8, Tizen, webOs,

FirefoxOS, BlackBerry OS, etc.)• Generalization, mobile became GPC – General Purpose

Computers• Provisioning, Virtualization, Maintenance, Monitoring,

Performance optimization, etc• Hardware Is Software• Voice Enablement (Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Blackberry Assistance)

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Extrapolation

2015 2020

2015

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Challenges

• BYOD : Bring-Your-Own-Device

• Virtualization, Samsung KNOX

• Games• Provisioning, MDM –

Mobile Device Management

• IoT

Copy• ?

Combine• SYV : Share-Your-Vehicle

(Uber)• Car driver detection,

Safety, Robustness• New genres• Software updates, car app

market (Tesla), Software Personalization

• Connected cars (Nokia)

Transform

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And more

• IT assets geolocation• Authentication with wearables• Helpdesk tickets clustering• Predictive provisioning• CAC – Cloud Application Control• …

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Thank You!