Learning a New Dance:

Taking the Core to the Edge

December 2014

Pete Williams

@rexster

@c4edge

“If the rate of change on the outside, exceeds the rate of

change on the inside, the end is near.”

Jack Welch – Former CEO of GE

Embracing the Edge

It is about leadership and politics, antibodies and antidotes,

failure and success. It involves some personal risk, but really is

about small moves, smartly made.

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What makes it hard?

Avoid the Magic Wand of Innovation

Motivated to Succeed or to avoid failure?

Short Term Focus

Processes

Quarterly

results

Rewards

Incentives

Business

Reporting

TargetsBudgets

Business Case – “Prove it” the way to kill ideas

Innovation is not about what is, it is about what could be.

Certainty vs Exploration – the predictability issue

The portfolio must consider opportunities in three distinct

categories …

A simple way to start – Horizon 1

Get input from your people

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How do we transform Accounting and the Client Experience? Software

Collaboration

Client(Self Managed)

Client

Self Managed System(e.g. MYOB, Quickbooks)

Transaction Data

Regulator(e.g. APRA, ASIC, ATO)

Offline Compliance Management System

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Data Warehouse

Reporting & Business Intelligence

Document Management

Messaging

Management Reporting

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Compliance Reporting

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Community Forums

Workflow & Task Management

KPI Reporting

Benchmark Reporting

Knowledge Delivery

News & Thought Leadership

eLearning

Tools/Scans

3Data Upload

Transformation

Validation

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Accounting

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Accounting and Compliance Services

The core goes to the Edge

H3 -From Structured to Organic

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Prototyping and Experimenting

Start Somewhere, Prototype and Experiment

How can I bring an idea to life?

Key Focal Points

• Speed depends on the capacity to manage

politics and adapt processes

• Working in the Open makes it easy for all

• Bring things to life through prototyping

• Zoom in, Zoom out

• Learning trumps efficiency

• Use invented wheels

Questions

• What Edges cn you explore?

• Are you an antibody or an antidote?

• Can you find opportunities to experiment?

• Are there barriers? How can you overcome them?

• What can you do to drive a change of mindset?

• What are you going to do? We are reliant on you

Resources

• Centre for the Edge

– Scaling Edges Design Principles

• Government 2020 – Bill Eggers

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