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How we tripled our innovation capacity and cut costs by 75% with a Serverless-First Approach
- In 2020, amidst the pandemic, a leadership shift led to a new focus on technology-driven innovation.
- The applied research team at the company had a history of successful experiments with emerging technologies.
- Facing challenges in turning experimental tech into products due to high costs and slow processes.
- Identified issues included provisioned infrastructure costs, limited AWS expertise, and lack of workflow consistency.
- Introduced a serverless-first approach, leveraging AWS serverless services for experiments to save costs and increase agility.
- Team embraced the shift, leading to collective learning, improved dynamics, and increased experimentation.
- Results showed a significant improvement in the number of experiments per professional and a decrease in cost per experiment.
- Success stories included developing an electronic signature solution and a no-code machine learning platform for clients.
- Adopting the serverless-first mindset and structured processes transformed slow experimentation into a high-impact innovation engine.
- Emphasizes the importance of creating conditions for innovation and rethinking approaches to drive business value.
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