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The 3 Stages of IA

  1. Use a simple dashboard of metrics that allows the team to track progress over time at the start of a project. It gives a basic sense of what’s working and what’s not. If customers won’t even try the product, it doesn’t matter what their repeat purchase rate is.
  2. It represents the complete interaction with a customer and includes later-stage variables like repeat purchases, bad retention levels, or margin.
  3. Looks at the learnings gained from the first two levels of IA translated into dollars by rerunning the full original business case with each Lvl 1 and 2 iteration.

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“To truly transform our organizations and our way of working, we need to change our accounting systems, too.”

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Accountability is Key

Accountability is Key

Use the dashboard to hold your team accountable. Simply ask this question: Which metrics are improving over time?

For example, a team that’s trying to prove they can charge a price premium for a new product might do an initial version where nobody is willing to buy, so revenue per customer ...

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What does IA help with

What does IA help with

  • It provides a framework of chained leading indicators, each of which predicts success. Each link in the chain is essential and, when broken, demands immediate attention.
  • It’s a focusing device for teams, keeping their attention on the most important assumptions they’ve mad...

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A simple Level 1 dashboard

A simple Level 1 dashboard

Here’s an example of a Level 1 dashboard looking at the first experiment done by a team building a lemonade stand and hoping for hypergrowth through the use of drone delivery and premium ingredients down the road:

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Use IA in the early game

Use IA in the early game

Innovation Accounting is a way of evaluating progress when all the metrics typically used in an established company (revenue, customers, ROI, market share) are effectively zero.

Innovation Accounting is not only a way for individual teams to report their progress and communicate in financi...

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Steps for your Level 1 dashboard

1. Come up with some initial metrics. These should be simple and actionable and should not have to be related to one another.

For example, a number of customers interviewed and their rating on identified struggles might be two starting metrics.

2. If you’re stuck on metrics, ask the...

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36 yr old product guy. Interested in meditation, product design and the future.

Recently learned about Innovation Accounting that's been recommended as the practice to adopt until thinking about metrics relevant to product-market fit.

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