How does a business grow? It hits the market with a product or service people want. Doing so requires a good idea, good data, and a process for driving innovation. Startups and digital natives know how to take ideas and run with them to accelerate innovation. And they are doing it better than large, non-digital native companies. This is why large companies are being disrupted faster than ever.

An agile test and learn process is what is speeding the road to innovation for many companies. The concept first took root among technology behemoths such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber. Now, every business must take advantage of the same approach to bringing the best ideas to fruition—at speed.

Don’t let perfection get in the way of progress

Marketing, strategy, manufacturing, and digital teams have ideas they’re excited about, whether it’s revamping a website, launching a new product, or building out a digital channel. But these people are busy and need a way to bring concepts to market without disrupting day-to-day business. By infusing test and learn into the culture, it allows everyone to make ideas happen.

Test and learn accelerates the path from strategy to ‘live’ while removing the risk from placing bets. Imagine the potential it can have when unleashed across key areas of the business such as

How to operationalize test and learn

Companies can realize greater value from test and learn by maturing internal test and learn capabilities

Passing the test

The test and learn process is proven through the outcomes achieved. Publicis Sapient has been helping codify test and learn for the world’s best-known brands—and they are seeing the results.

• An airline created an environment for collaboration and co-creation and ultimately scale experimentation to drive a 23% improvement in mobile conversion. Publicis Sapient introduced sequential experimentation techniques to optimize the time to insight.
• Publicis Sapient is working closely with product and design teams at a retail bank to define high impact objectives and use research findings to inform the ongoing design and delivery process, ultimately creating a customer-centric practice. Now, ongoing customer insight is enriching design, from discovery through BETA release and beyond.
• A multinational retail corporation followed a customer-centric, research-led test and learn approach to identify and prioritize pain points within the digital experience. The team was able to go live with the first version of a new ecommerce platform in just six months, yielding a 1.5x improvement in the site’s conversion rate.
• Publicis Sapient helped a U.S. bank to use continuous testing to develop a best-in-class mobile banking app that challenged internal assumptions around customer needs. Teams collaborated on different parts of the app, tested features with customers on a regular basis, and constantly iterated over two weeks to arrive at the best solution.

Take the first step

Test and learn isn’t a destination. It is an ongoing process that can be deployed repeatedly across the organization to get to smart outcomes fast. When test and learn becomes part of the company DNA, innovation becomes the rule, not the exception.

Large companies that have been stuck on the long road to launch can now be in the innovation fast lane. Why sit idle when you can watch your business grow?