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The Exponential Framework

March 2019

How to apply sharing economy attributes to large, successful companies

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// Current

Chief Growth Officer / Crypto Lead

// Entrepreneur

SlideRocket

Former Software Developer

// Mentor, Ran Accelerator Programs

Venture Hive

Rokk3r 10xU

Mike Lingle, ExO Works

mike@exo.works

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10x

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What is an ExO?

“An Exponential Organization (ExO) is one whose impact is disproportionately large—�at least 10x larger—compared to its peers because of the use of new organizational techniques that leverage exponential technologies.”

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What is an ExO?

  • Impact is at least 10x larger vs. peers
  • Some part of the business is digitized
  • Leverages accelerating technologies
  • Unlocks a new business model
  • Decreases cost of demand
  • Decreases cost of supply
  • Is usually a platform

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Scarcity

Abundance

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Access �Abundance

Generate Abundance

Exponential

Technologies

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The ExO Formula

ExO

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MTP + SCALE + IDEAS

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ExO Attributes

MTPMASSIVE TRANSFORMATIVE PURPOSE

TAP INTO ABUNDANCE

MANAGE ABUNDANCE

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Experimentation

Autonomy

Social Technologies

Dashboards

ExO Attributes

Staff on Demand

Algorithms

Leveraged Assets

Engagement

Community and Crowd

MTPMASSIVE TRANSFORMATIVE PURPOSE

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AWS delivers 2/3 of the parent company's profits and is �still growing at around 50% �per year.

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Morgan Stanley says Waymo could be worth $175B

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P&G used ExO approach to completely remove invoices from a major portion of their supply chain.

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Fortune 100 Company

ExQ

Google

72.9

Amazon

66.2

Apple

62.6

IBM

61.0

Verizon Communications

58.8

General Electric

56.6

Microsoft

55.9

Cisco Systems, Inc.

55.8

The Walt Disney Company

54.8

Fortune 100 Company

ExQ

Costco Wholesale

32.0

Philip Morris International Inc.

31.6

Hess Corporation

31.3

HCA Holdings, Inc.

31.0

Phillips 66

30.7

Tesoro Corporation

30.0

Valero Energy

29.8

Plains GP Holdings, L.P.

27.5

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.

26.5

IMPACT: GLOBAL

Average S&P +9.9%

Top 10: + 26.7%

Bottom 10: -1.7%

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Ranking of Fortune 100 by Exponential Quotient

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exo.works/exq

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ExO Attributes

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What’s an MTP?

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Higher, aspirational purpose

Massive Transformative Purpose

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Higher, aspirational purpose

Guiding principle for key decisions

Massive Transformative Purpose

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Higher, aspirational purpose

Guiding principle for key decisions

Positive global impact

Massive Transformative Purpose

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Higher, aspirational purpose

Guiding principle for key decisions

Positive global impact

Guide people both inside and outside

Massive Transformative Purpose

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Organize the world's information and make it universally�accessible and useful

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Radical breakthroughs for the benefits of humanity

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Delivering great entertainment

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  • A mission statement
  • Tech-specific or narrowly focused
  • Representative of what is possible today
  • Motivated solely by profits
  • Just a big goal

An MTP is NOT

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The global transformation of business

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ExO Attributes

Staff on Demand

Algorithms

Leveraged Assets

Engagement

Community and Crowd

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Employee autonomy

7x more customers per employee

Crowd engagement

Global media company in 5 years

Experimentation

The Institutional Yes!

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A $35 billion financial services is able to save up to $1B in lost business by implementing a regulated single-click sign-up process.

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A multinational corporation increased customer satisfaction by 10X and reduced wasted time by 83% at their call centers. They used artificial intelligence to understand each customer’s question and access the right answer from the right database in real time (including ingredients, sourcing, and supply chain information). This allows human agents to focus on building relationships and selling additional products.

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A financial services firm identified a $300 million opportunity to win new customers in an adjacent market. Their approach eased the average 2.5 hour commute for locals in a major city by digitizing and unifying different transportation systems into a single mobile app.

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Staff on Demand

“Most of the bright people don’t work for you, no matter who you are”

Bill Joy

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Rather than ‘owning’ employees, ExOs leverage external people for simple to complex work—even for mission-critical processes.

Staff on Demand

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500 Experts in 35 Countries

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Staff on Demand

Why this is important:

  • The best people are outside your own company
  • Allows for agility and flexibility
  • Cash-efficient
  • Enables learning (fresh perspectives)
  • Unlocks rapid global reach

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  • Paid $10,000 for Kaggle competition
  • 271% improvement in 2 weeks
  • 50% of IT staff are consultants
  • Not just helpful, mandatory
  • Need to know where products are in Walmart
  • Uses Gigwalk app.

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Community & Crowd

“If you build communities and you do things in public, you don’t have to find the right people, they find you.”

Chris Anderson

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Communities are groups of people passionate about a cause and devoted to collaborating on it. ExOs leverage their community and crowd in order to scale.

Community & Crowd

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Crowd

  • Ideation
  • Validation
  • Support

Community

  • Production
  • Delivery
  • Operations

Community & Crowd

Crowd

Everyone Else

Staff on Demand

Vendors / Partners

Users / Customers /Alumni

Community

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Community & Crowd

Why this is important:

  • Increases loyalty to ExO
  • Drives exponential growth
  • Validates new ideas and learning
  • Allows for agility and rapid implementation
  • Amplifies ideation
  • Powerful marketing tool

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Algorithms

“If a person can do something, an AI is either already better at it or it will be in the future.”

Francisco Palao

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Algorithms

Algorithms—including Machine Learning and Deep Learning— provide insights into customers and products.

Self-learning software recognizes patterns in text, images, videos, languages etc.

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Algorithms

How to implement

  • Needs-driven approach (not technology-driven)
  • Automate repetitive tasks and knowledge workers
  • Culture management to implement it
  • Limitations of intelligent agents (i.e. understanding data)

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Leveraged Assets

ExOs access, rent, or share assets to stay nimble—outsourcing even mission-critical assets.

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Leveraged Assets

Why this is important:

  • Lowers marginal cost of supply to zero
  • Allows for agility and flexibility
  • Unlocks rapid global reach

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Engagement

Digital reputation systems, games, and incentive prizes provide the opportunity for virtuous, positive feedback loops—which in turn allows for faster growth.

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Engagement

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Engagement

Why this is important:

  • Increases loyalty
  • Amplifies ideation
  • Converts crowd to community
  • Amplifies marketing
  • Enables play and learning
  • Provides feedback loops with users

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Interfaces

Experimentation

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Social Technologies

Dashboards

ExO Attributes

Staff on Demand

Algorithms

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Engagement

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MTPMASSIVE TRANSFORMATIVE PURPOSE

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Interfaces

Select, filter and manage the outputs of all external attributes of ExOs (SCALE) as inputs into the internal organization in an effective, targeted, and seamless manner:

  • UX / UI
  • APIs

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Interfaces: UX / UI

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Interfaces: APIs

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Interfaces

Why this is important:

  • Filtering abundance into manageable chunks of input for different internal departments
  • Bridge between external growth drivers and stabilizing internal drivers
  • Avoids human mistakes
  • Allows for scalability

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Dashboards

“Measure what is measurable and what is not measurable make it measurable.”

Galileo Galilei

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Dashboards

In order to measure and manage the performance of an ExO, a real-time, adaptable dashboard with essential company and employee metrics and short feedback loops is implemented – accessible and transparent to everyone in the organization.

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Dashboards

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Dashboards

Why this is important:

  • Measures critical growth drivers in real time
  • Enables more learning, motivation, and collaboration
  • Minimizes errors because of short feedback loops / frequent reporting
  • Accessible to everyone

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Dashboards

  • Largest independent provider of data to advertisers about YouTube.

  • Ingests > 5 billion statistics about more than 400 million videos daily.

  • Wide range of real-time dashboards to inform its engineering, data science and business teams.

  • Used extensively by the business teams to spot trends in new content being uploaded to YouTube.

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Experiments

“No business plan survives its first contact with customers”

Steve Blank

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Experiments

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

Jim Barksdale

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Experiments

Why this is important:

  • Allows rapid learning
  • Creates crucial data for decisions
  • Lowers costs
  • Keeps pace with rapid change
  • Highlights best areas for investment

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Autonomy

“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit”

Andrew Carnegie

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Autonomy

ExOs have a flat structure— allowing self-organizing, multidisciplinary teams and / or individual employees to operate with decentralized authority.

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Key Results

Key Results

Key Results

Objective

Key Results

Key Results

Key Results

What do we have to do?

How are we going to do it?

Key Results

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Autonomy

Why this is important:

  • Accelerates growth
  • Great ideas come from the front lines
  • Companies that make the fastest decisions win

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Social Technologies

“As we’ve seen repeatedly—

a team composed of a few percent of a

company’s workforce, acting in concert

toward an ambitious common goal, can

change an entire mature industry in less

than two years.”

Google’s Employee Handbook

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ExOs leverage collaborative tools to manage real-time, zero-latency conversations. These tools create transparency and drive collaboration.

Social Technologies

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Social Technologies

Why this is important:

  • Speeds decision making
  • Fuels autonomy
  • Allows other people / teams to help

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Interfaces

Experimentation

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Social Technologies

Dashboards

ExO Attributes

Staff on Demand

Algorithms

Leveraged Assets

Engagement

Community and Crowd

MTPMASSIVE TRANSFORMATIVE PURPOSE

TAP INTO ABUNDANCE

MANAGE ABUNDANCE

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The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

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13,000

copies

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7 full-time and 5 part-time employees

$360M in annual sales

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Innovation

Risk

Balancing Innovation and Risk

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Steps to 10X Performance

  • Improve efficiencies in core business
  • Build new ExOs at the edge
  • Make the parent company more ExO

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Balancing Innovation and Risk

ExO

ExO

Current

Organization

Edge Stream

ExO

Core Stream

Current Organization

(More ExO)

  • New business models and/or new markets
  • Leverage unfair advantages
  • Rapid growth

  • More efficient
  • More agile
  • Incremental innovation

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Balancing Innovation and Risk

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Balancing Innovation and Risk

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Outcomes:

  • Created new innovation division, learned to run their own Sprints
  • Launched 25 initiatives in 3 years
  • 8 are on track to deliver $50M+ in value or 10x lift in customer satisfaction
  • Turned several shared services into revenue generators

Procter & Gamble

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Engagement

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The rate of change is increasing

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How will you keep up?

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Thank you

Mike Lingle

Chief Growth Officer // Crypto Lead

mike@exo.works