The average company lifespan is shrinking, making rapid innovation driven by technology, competition, and customer needs more critical than ever for survival.
Miro navigated competitive pressure from Microsoft and the shift to GenAI by focusing on customer empathy and evolving from a visual workspace to a tailored innovation platform.
To regain agility, Miro focused on a nimble startup culture, using internal AI tools and company-wide hackathons to accelerate value delivery and overcome hypergrowth challenges.
The key hiring traits for an innovative culture are hunger, accountability, and customer obsession, which are more important than specific tech stack experience.
The future of development will be defined by small, high-impact teams and the ability to "create what you can describe," shifting focus from delivery to product definition.
The primary strategy for competing against large platforms is not regulation but a faster pace of innovation, deep tech, and winning over both end-users and enterprise CIOs.
The discussion covers how regulations like the AI Act will shape the industry, balancing innovation with the need for ethical guardrails and vetted training data.
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29:32Christian Nagel, Romain Mombert, Shikha Ahluwalia & Justus Lumpe
28:12Justus Lumpe, Konstantin Vinogradov, Nils Eiteneyer & Stephan Wirris
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Wolters Kluwer
Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
