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Innovate or Die Trying - A newspaper company's plan for survival - Paul Flewelling - Agile SG 2016

Innovate or Die Trying - A newspaper company's plan for survival - Paul Flewelling - Agile SG 2016

Innovate or Die Trying - A newspaper company's plan for survival - Paul Flewelling - Agile SG 2016

Agile Singapore

October 17, 2016
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  1. Innovate,
    or die trying

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  2. Paul Flewelling
    Agile lead
    theagilecoach.co.nz

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  3. A Kodak moment

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  4. Steve Sasson
    “EVERY DIGITAL CAMERA THAT
    WAS SOLD TOOK AWAY FROM A
    FILM CAMERA AND WE KNEW HOW
    MUCH MONEY WE MADE ON FILM”
    “THAT WAS THE ARGUMENT. OF
    COURSE, THE PROBLEM IS PRETTY
    SOON YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO SELL
    FILM — AND THAT WAS MY POSITION."
    Kodaks First Digital Moment
    http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/kodaks-first-digital-moment/

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  5. Our Kodak Moment

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  6. 1907
    prints The Dominion
    1972
    WELLINGTON PUBLISHING
    acquires The Evening Post
    and The Dominion,
    consolidates print and
    distribution
    INDEPENDENT NEWS LTD
    BLUNDELL BROTHERS
    1865
    prints The Evening Post
    The rise and fall of the
    newspaper business

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  7. 2003
    2000
    goes live - one website
    covering many print titles
    STUFF.CO.NZ
    acquires INL’s print
    publications
    FAIRFAX MEDIA LTD
    2005
    reaches peak in US at

    around $50 billion
    ADVERTISING REVENUE
    2011
    goes live
    ANDROID APP
    2010 iOS APP
    goes live
    The rise and fall of the
    newspaper business
    2007
    Advertising revenue goes
    off a cliff
    FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

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  8. 2016
    DIGITAL
    TRANSFORMATION
    MANDATE
    New CEO
    DIGITAL FIRST 

    AUTHORING LAUNCHES
    A combined authoring
    platform allows journalists
    to use one tool to publish to
    digital and/or print
    ADVERTISING REVENUE
    has halved in US to $25 billion
    2012
    2013
    Plant consolidation
    and improvements
    cost $20 million
    PRINTING PLANT
    2011
    The rise and fall of the
    newspaper business

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  9. Billions USD
    0
    20
    40
    60
    2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
    Print ad revenue (US) Digital ad revenue (US) Google ad revenue (global)
    The rise and fall of the
    newspaper business

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  10. Digital disruption

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  11. Theory by Jeanne Ross, MIT Sloan
    SMACIT

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  12. SOCIAL MEDIA

    SMACIT

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  13. MOBILE
    SMACIT

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  14. ANALYTICS
    SMACIT

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  15. CLOUD
    SMACIT

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  16. INTERNET OF THINGS
    SMACIT

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  17. Theory by Jeanne Ross, MIT Sloan
    SMACIT

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  18. Moore’s law
    TRANSISTOR DENSITY ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
    WILL DOUBLE EVERY TWO YEARS
    Combined with David House’s observation that with speed
    increases, raw computing power also doubles every 18 months

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  19. Thirty linear steps

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  20. Five exponential steps

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  21. Thirty exponential steps

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  22. 1985 CRAY 2 SUPERCOMPUTER 2012 IPHONE 5
    Has 2.7 x processing power of the
    Cray 2 and a fraction of the size

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  23. Buurtzorg focus on delivering a single tiered health
    care system in small 12 person Agile teams. Not
    because they wanted to be “Agile” but because
    that’s what gets the best result for the client
    Customer engagement Digitised solution
    Uber provides a digital solution that
    makes getting from A to B simple & safe

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  24. Our digital strategy
    H O W W E ’ R E F A C I N G D I G I T A L D I S R U P T I O N

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  25. 1. DIGITAL FIRST PUBLICATION
    We publish stories that can be
    syndicated to any publication
    but with digital being the
    primary concern
    We’ve built a software platform
    that supports this end-to-end

    This allows us to be leaner in
    our production costs.
    It’s our “operational backbone”

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  27. 2. SUSTAINING INNOVATION
    A Lean Startup approach for
    building of new ideas to
    improve membership and
    commercial
    - validate early and often
    - build, measure, learn
    - encourage collaborative,
    innovative thinking
    - metrics driven culture

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  28. MAY 2014
    MAY 2015
    0 million 1 million 2 million
    0 million 1 million 2 million
    1.47 million unique browsers
    1.85 million unique browsers
    MAY 2016
    0 million 1 million 2 million
    2.025 million unique browsers

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  29. It looks like it might work, but when you try
    it nothing happens… except we tracked you
    wanted to push it
    Button to nowhere The Wizard of OZ
    It looks like it’s fully working, but don’t
    look behind the curtain.

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  30. 3. TAKE AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
    Consider all streams of work and
    how they touch on each other
    Digital is whole organisation
    responsibility
    Content creation, curation and
    discovery is at the heart of this

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  31. What’s the job?
    “PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO BUY A
    QUARTER-INCH DRILL. THEY WANT
    A QUARTER-INCH HOLE”
    CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
    By World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland
    CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (saturation adjusted)

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  32. 4. BECOME A MODERN BROADCASTER
    Diversify using different channels
    such as our community focussed
    Neighbourly
    Also becoming the medium of
    transmission gives us a signal
    regardless of the other players

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  34. 5. PERFORM ORGANISATIONAL SURGERY
    Breakdown the silos
    Maintain separation of “the
    Church and the State”

    View Editorial as audience draw
    card
    View Commercial as the money
    makers

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  35. Disruptive innovation
    L O O K I N G T O T H E F U T U R E

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  37. L O O K I N G T O T H E F U T U R E
    Disruptive innovation
    By Clockready (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0
    Katherine Viner, The Guardian, 12th July 2016 By Wilgengebroed on Flickr CC BY 2.0
    via Wikimedia Commons

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  38. What we can learn?
    • Digital disruption is only
    going to accelerate
    • Organisations should
    consider restructuring to
    adapt to the rate of change
    • Lean startup “experiments”
    are going to help
    • You might need a seperate
    R & D dept to look for new
    revenue streams

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  39. Category Axis
    Media
    Telecom
    Consumer financial services
    Retail
    Technology
    Insurance
    Consumer products
    Nonprofit
    Business & professional services
    Education
    Health care
    Asset wealth management
    Industrial
    0 25 50 75 100
    61
    57
    53
    50
    49
    48
    48
    47
    43
    43
    39
    36
    28
    39
    43
    47
    50
    51
    52
    52
    53
    57
    57
    61
    64
    72
    SOURCE: Digital Pulse 2015, Russell Reynolds Associates
    % executives who responded
    that their business would be
    moderately or massively
    disrupted by digital

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  40. HOW WILL YOU SUSTAIN
    YOUR CURRENT
    APPROACH?
    3 things
    to think
    about
    WILL YOU FOCUS ON
    CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
    OR A DIGITISED
    SOLUTION?
    HOW WILL YOU FACE
    DIGITAL DISRUPTION IN
    YOUR MARKET?

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