Experimentation Works, Stefan H. Thomke
Experimentation Works, Stefan H. Thomke
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Experimentation Works
The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Author: Stefan H. Thomke

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/21/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Don't fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you.

When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer experiences without running these experiments? They fly blind.

That's what Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows in this rigorously researched and eye-opening book. It guides you through best practices in business experimentation, illustrates how these practices work at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions: What makes a good experiment? How do you test in online and brick-and-mortar businesses? In B2B and B2C? How do you build an experimentation culture? Also, best practice means running many experiments. Indeed, some hugely successful companies, such as Amazon, Booking.com, and Microsoft, run tens of thousands of controlled experiments annually, engaging millions of users. Thomke shows us how these and many other organizations prove that experimentation provides significant competitive advantage.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lukas on October 22, 2020

There are lots of books that explain in detail how to design and execute a randomized controlled experiment. This is not one of those books. Instead, this book sheds some much needed light on the questions of why and how organizations can utilize experimentation at scale to drive evidence-based cust......more

Goodreads review by Guy on October 23, 2021

I have a very biased view of this book, and the review may not be helpful to all. As the current Director of Experimentation at Booking.com, the book was useful to me to get a lot of the historical context of Experimentation at Booking. More so I really enjoyed the principles and culture super struc......more

Goodreads review by Andreas on March 28, 2020

Overall I found this to be a great guideline – a must-read for any business/organization thinking about implementing experimentation. The author takes us through countless examples of companies and organizations who have embraced an experimentation culture. Throughout those examples, he exposes read......more

Goodreads review by Alexandre on June 26, 2020

After reading this book you realise why companies such as Zara, Amazon or Booking became leaders in their markets and especially how top performers are adapting and shaping the market by trying and trying in a high-speed way under today very uncertain and changing scenarios. They do it through exten......more

Goodreads review by Danilo on June 10, 2022

Gosto de livros técnicos mais práticos, que ajudem a resolver problemas mais táticos do dia a dia. Obviamente um livro chamado “A Cultura da experimentação” já dá pistas que vai falar de modelo mental, mudança cultural e outras coisas mais de longo prazo. Dito isso, o livro me surpreendeu posivitame......more