Case studies with Exponentially

Reece: Becoming a pretotyping powerhouse

A core value at Reece is to ‘innovate big and small’. They have a deep-seated culture of experimenting and being open to new ideas, always trying to bring products to the table that put customer needs at the forefront. Let’s dive into how pretotyping impacted their innovating process.

Slingshot Accelerator: embedding rapid experimentation in corporate startup accelerators

At first glance, accelerators and corporate innovation seem to be on different sides of the innovation spectrum. Slingshot Accelerator aims to bring them together, infusing Australia's largest corporations with ideas, methods, and talent from Australia’s most promising start-ups. Slingshot matches corporates with top-end entrepreneurs and disruptive start-ups in order to build innovative and market-changing technologies.

Australian Financial Review: The new face of product testing, from pretend chatbots to fake websites

Read how Exponentially worked alongside RACQ to implement pretotyping in their organisation, with an article featured in the Australian Financial Review.

AGL: Successfully pretotyping at scale

AGL’s Experimentation Team is leading the way when it comes to pretotyping. The team is led by AGL’s Experimentation Manager Richard Guy, who was trained in pretotyping by Leslie Barry, founder of Exponentially. This has led to pretotyping and rapid experimentation not only being used successfully at scale, but coming to sit at the core of AGL’s product innovation.

The Australian National University: experimenting with experimentation

Exponentially worked with Australian National University’s Experience Accelerator to embed pretotyping into their approach to innovation, in order to improve their student experience.

Caltex Spark

Exponentially worked with Caltex Australia as part of an accelerator facilitated by Slingshot, which sought to match corporates with relevant start-ups in order to build innovative and market-changing technologies.

Racing Victoria

In 2018, we worked with Racing Victoria to answer the question: How do we create the next major event for Racing Victoria? The company needed to test ideas in order to discover which event would be the most profitable, and learn how to best design and run the event in order to deliver maximum benefit to customers and the organisation.

Qantas

As part of Slingshot and Qantas’ AVRO Accelerator, Exponentially ran a workshop to give companies the skills to incorporate rapid experimentation and pretotyping into their idea validation process.

RACV: Using pretotyping to run a Rapid Innovation Sprint

Exponentially worked with leading motoring club and mutual organisation RACV’s established innovation team, improving the company’s ability to prioritise and test ideas using pretotyping and rapid experimentation.

RACQ

Leading insurance company RACQ worked with Exponentially to embed pretotyping and rapid experimentation into their innovation process.

HCF

Facilitated by Slingshot, HCF Catalyst is Australia’s leading health-technology scaleup accelerator. Exponentially worked with HCF and its matched start-ups to test and validate ideas that would help accelerate enterprise-ready businesses towards a potential partnership with HCF.

Lion

Exponentially worked with Lion - one of the region’s most innovative food and beverage companies - as part of an accelerator facilitated by Slingshot, which sought to match corporates with relevant start-ups in order to build innovative and market-changing technologies.

PEXA-typing: embedding pretotyping company-wide (in under a year)