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Our Secret to Innovation

on YouTube 25m
Talkat DLD Munich 2016 · 2016-01-17..01-19· [engineering-leadership]

speakers

name:Werner Vogels
x:Werner
name:Christopher Schläffer
links:none on file
name:Stefan Winners
linkedin:stefanwinners

resources

video:https://youtu.be/kMCkA1CwHdk
slides:none on file

summary

Amazon grows engineering headcount ~50% yearly and splits work into ~500–800 service teams, using small autonomous teams plus a hire-for-culture model and 14 leadership principles to force experiments; AWS emerges by exposing internal compute and storage as a platform, Echo/Alexa becomes a hit while the Amazon Phone fails; VimpelCom opens a new London digital division and plans an enabling platform to reclaim consumer relationships across 14 countries and ~217 million customers, prioritizing low-cost failure and rapid spinups.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introductions and VimpelCom
  2. 1:53Telecom digital transformation
  3. 5:33Innovation at Amazon
  4. 9:09Amazon's organizational culture
  5. 13:26Attracting and retaining talent
  6. 18:35Future trends and Q&A

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