Off the back of Rogers' diffusion of innovations and Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm discover how to leverage your technology and sell to the mass market.
6. So what the hell is a ‘disruptive technology’?
The world’s
largest taxi
company owns
Zero vehicles
The world’s largest
accommodation
provider owns
Zero real estate
The world’s most
valuable retailer
has Zero
inventory
The world’s most
popular media
owner creates
Zero content
7. Figure out which market you want to be in
Find out who your market really
is
Value map your market
Segment 1
Application
1
Segment 1
Application
1
Segment 1
Application
2
Segment 1
Application
2
Segment 1
Application
1
Segment 1
Application
3
Whole Product Customer
references
Understand your market
Segment your market
8. Understand your market
Founded in 2005 and floated in 2015
Targeted businesses but specifically law
firms and investment firms that handled
sensitive information
Became HIPAA compliant
As of 2014 40% of the Fortune 500 were
paying Box customers
9. Find out what your customer’s goals are
Look at your potential customer’s business, what are
they trying to achieve?
Don’t just look at what your customers want from your
product.
Where are they going?
How does your product fit in to their value chain?
10. Complete your product and ways of working
Core
product
Core
product
Core
product
V0.1 V1.0 V2.0
12. Awareness Consideration Purchase Service Loyalty
Managed
touchpoint
Earned touchpoint
ATL Advertising
WO
M
Brand
Online display
Search
PPC
White papers
Landing
page/Initial contact
Reputation
3rd Party links
Direct contact
Store/Branch/
Representation
Agent/Broker
Available
information
Commercial
process
Delivery
Communit
y
Implementatio
n
review
Add-ons
Account
Management
Cross-selling
F2F
interactions
Feedback loop
Loyalty/Reward
program
Partnership
program
[Digital touchpoints]
[Digital touchpoints]
14. Success stories
Large market completely new business model ‘on-demand’
Focused on small businesses with simplified pricing and low-
risk implementations
Employed feedback loops to develop the product
Minimised barriers to adoption with pricing based on a per-
user basis but also functionality tiers
Exceptional cross-selling with revenue from top 100
customers growing 600% over 6 years
Became disillusioned with waterfall and stopped
development for 3 months to train 200 engineers across 30
teams in agile development
15. Success stories
Targeted an increasingly prevalent issue as X86 servers
were built with more and more power but software
developments weren’t keeping up
Enabled IBM to sell more of their increasingly powerful
hardware by solving IBM’s end-user issues
Such a large customer provided a great point of reference
and provided the comfort the pragmatists needed to
purchase ESX
Delivered tangible benefits
16. Not so successful stories
Good technologically
Picked up by technology enthusiasts
No clear use-case
No real product launch
No defined message
Prolonged release far too long until eventually interest
started to wane
17. Cool concept, but what problem was it solving and at what
price?
Lack of developed content
A large number of users didn’t like having to wear/dish out
glasses to watch TV
Rushed technology meant that content and producers were
often immature resulting in a large swathe of poor quality
content for early adopters
Useless as a storytelling tool
Not so successful stories
18. On the precipice
Technically just across the chasm
Revenue has increased from just over $200m in 2011 to over
$4bn in 2015
Tesla Model 3 due to break the ‘early adopter’ phase of
electric car consumerism
Now execution of orders in 2017 (US) and 2018 (UK) will be
key
19. Riding the energy trend ‘supercapacitators’ are the new
source of power for battery powered devices
Launched in February of this year at a retail of $149 the
product claims to be able to charge devices such as mobiles,
laptops, cordless appliances and even electric vehicles in
under 5 minutes
Pre-sales in 70 countries
Series A investment of +$20m
Aims to replace the lithium-ion battery inside mobile phones
eventually
On the precipice
20. Docker is creating an entirely new industry ‘containers’
These containers simplify development and deployment in
line with agile methodology
All the big cloud providers support docker and adoption is
speeding up
A new way to build applications
Lego-like plugin architecture
Secured a large number of well-known users and
contributors
On the precipice
21. A few simple tricks
The Car Marketing and
process audit
What are you doing
with feedback
Don’t oversell and
underdeliver
Okay so let me first put out a disclaimer – I’m not here to sell you anything
As IT folk we’ve never been that great at blowing our own trumpet and on occasion we might have been seen to appear a bit like this
Fortunately for all of us nowadays we’re much closer to this
But for now let’s just put it down to somewhere inbetween
As IT folk we’ve never been that great at blowing our own trumpet and on occasion we might have been seen to appear a bit like this
Fortunately for all of us nowadays we’re much closer to this
But for now let’s just put it down to somewhere inbetween
A sociological model describing the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation
Extension of ‘The Diffusion Process’ coming from amongst others Everett Rogers the son of a farmer
Illustrated as a classical normal distribution or ‘bell curve’
Demographic and psychographic profiles of each group was originally specified by the North Central Rural Sociology Committee – a sub committee for the study of diffusion of farm practices – why might you ask – well, originally the purpose of the diffusion of innovation’s study was to track the purchase patterns of hybrid seed by corn farmers
The original report summarised as such:
Innovators – had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-orientated
Early adopters – Younger, more educated, leaned towards being community leaders, less prosperous
Early majority – More conservative but open to new ideas, active in the community and most importantly – an influence on their neighbours
Late majority – Older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active
Laggards – Very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated.
Not content with accepting Roger’s corn model Geoffrey Moore came along in the 1970s and noticed that as an adoption model for ‘high tech’ marketing there was something missing – a credibility gap
Moore purported that a ‘chasm’ separates the early market and only upon crossing this chasm can organisation truly experience mass market growth
Technology enthusiasts will buy anything – they will buy for buying’s sake and make up only about 2% of the market
Visionaries are crucial because they will invest and take risks in the search for great reward. They are comfortable with technology and will constantly challenge you which in turn should help you evolve your product or service
Pragmatists have the money – these are people that are looking for measurable incremental gains – they want the ROI. These people like to buy from market leaders because they know all the complementary products in the market will be built around these leaders. Critically they will always always reference their peer group before purchasing
Conservatives – Is where you can continue to make additional revenue where technology is not longer state-of-the-art
Skeptics – They don’t believe that IT will ever bring office productivity and will only buy your technology once the rest of the market has and they are forced to adapt. They will also do so because the cost and servicing costs will likely have fallen too.
A sociological model describing the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation
Extension of ‘The Diffusion Process’ coming from amongst others Everett Rogers the son of a farmer
Illustrated as a classical normal distribution or ‘bell curve’
Demographic and psychographic profiles of each group was originally specified by the North Central Rural Sociology Committee – a sub committee for the study of diffusion of farm practices – why might you ask – well, originally the purpose of the diffusion of innovation’s study was to track the purchase patterns of hybrid seed by corn farmers
The original report summarised as such:
Innovators – had larger farms, were more educated, more prosperous and more risk-orientated
Early adopters – Younger, more educated, leaned towards being community leaders, less prosperous
Early majority – More conservative but open to new ideas, active in the community and most importantly – an influence on their neighbours
Late majority – Older, less educated, fairly conservative and less socially active
Laggards – Very conservative, had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated.
Not content with accepting Roger’s corn model Geoffrey Moore came along in the 1970s and noticed that as an adoption model for ‘high tech’ marketing there was something missing – a credibility gap
Moore purported that a ‘chasm’ separates the early market and only upon crossing this chasm can organisation truly experience mass market growth
Technology enthusiasts will buy anything – they will buy for buying’s sake and make up only about 2% of the market
Visionaries are crucial because they will invest and take risks in the search for great reward. They are comfortable with technology and will constantly challenge you which in turn should help you evolve your product or service
Pragmatists have the money – these are people that are looking for measurable incremental gains – they want the ROI. These people like to buy from market leaders because they know all the complementary products in the market will be built around these leaders. Critically they will always always reference their peer group before purchasing
Conservatives – Is where you can continue to make additional revenue where technology is not longer state-of-the-art
Skeptics – They don’t believe that IT will ever bring office productivity and will only buy your technology once the rest of the market has and they are forced to adapt. They will also do so because the cost and servicing costs will likely have fallen too.
Now, to some the term ‘disruptive’ infuriates them, they don’t believe in revolution – only evolution and okay I can understand that but some recent advancements are undeniable.
Essentially, a ‘disruptive technology’ or innovation creates a new market and value network eventually disrupting the existing market.
Has anyone ever heard the term ‘unicorn companies’?
Well a unicorn company is a start-up company valued at over $1bn
A decacorn is those valued at over $10bn and a Hectocorn is $100bn
Uber: Ford has a market capitalisation of $55bn, Uber is $50bn
AirBnB: Worth more than Marriott with a market cap of just over $21bn, Expedia and Starwood
What’s really interesting is that these companies might be worth more than some of their traditional competitors but in fact they’re making a lot less money – so why are they valued so much more highly?
Well it’s mainly due to their rates of growth
Uber: 40% - each quarter!!!
AirBnB’s revenue increased 113% from 2014 to 2015
Alibaba – almost 40% year on year for the past 5 years
Facebook has about 12% of the $186bn global digital advertising market and posted advertising revenue growth of 57% in the first quarter of this year
But remember, not all innovations are disruptive, but all disruptions are innovative.
So what does crossing the ‘chasm’ really mean
Well it is essentially accessing the ‘mass market’
Walt Disney said ‘do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends
So what does crossing the ‘chasm’ really mean
Well it is essentially accessing the ‘mass market’
Walt Disney said ‘do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends
So what does crossing the ‘chasm’ really mean
Well it is essentially accessing the ‘mass market’
The earlier you are in the life cycle the more time you should be spending on the problem and less time on the solution
The lean startup methodology focusses on a ‘minimum viable product’ when it comes to approaching the pragmatists you better have been listening
These people don’t just want a core product they what the entire feature set
Use the feedback you get – there is almost nothing as important as feedback!
Vision
Values
Methods
Obstacles
Measures
The lean startup methodology focusses on a ‘minimum viable product’ when it comes to approaching the pragmatists you better have been listening
These people don’t just want a core product they what the entire feature set
Use the feedback you get – there is almost nothing as important as feedback!
Vision
Values
Methods
Obstacles
Measures
Not to be confused with customer lifecycle the customer journey is about evaluating and designing customer experiences
Customer journey
Defining touch points
Enhancing the experience at each touch point
Lego’s Executive Flight Customer experience
Not to be confused with customer lifecycle the customer journey is about evaluating and designing customer experiences
Customer journey
Defining touch points
Enhancing the experience at each touch point
Lego’s Executive Flight Customer experience