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Developing Experience Teams and Talent in the Enterprise
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016 • Enterprise UX 2016
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Developing Experience Teams and Talent in the Enterprise
Speakers: Karen Pascoe
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Summary

Karen, a leader at MasterCard, shares her experience driving digital transformation by positioning design as a vital business competency. She explains how MasterCard is evolving from traditional plastic card payments to a device-based commerce ecosystem involving smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices, with a strong focus on security and seamless user experience. Karen highlights innovations such as biometric identity checks and payment-enabled fashion accessories and home devices. She stresses the importance of leadership alignment, cross-functional partnerships, and maintaining strong relationships across organizational silos to successfully launch complex enterprise projects. On the talent front, Karen advises authentic engagement with the design community, value alignment in hiring, and the need to build teams that exhibit intellectual curiosity and collaboration. She advocates for performance management as an integral part of the employee experience with continuous feedback, coaching, and development plans while addressing performance gaps respectfully and decisively. Throughout, Karen underscores that driving digital innovation in enterprises requires negotiation, influence, and clear communication of mission and progress to gain and sustain support.

Key Insights

  • MasterCard is shifting from plastic cards to a secure, device-based commerce platform embedding payments in wearables, IoT, and mobile devices.

  • Digital commerce requires rock-solid security including biometric authentication like 'selfie pay' to ensure consumer trust.

  • Success in enterprise innovation depends heavily on aligning leadership and cross-functional sponsors to a shared mission and agenda.

  • Building relationships beyond one's immediate team and boss is critical in dynamic, frequently reorganizing enterprises.

  • Understanding how your company makes money is essential for design leaders to influence business decisions effectively.

  • Authentic engagement with local design communities and sponsoring events are more effective hiring strategies than cold outreach.

  • Retention depends on cultural fit, intellectual curiosity, meaningful work, and clear demonstration of business impact from design efforts.

  • Performance management should be viewed as an ongoing employee experience, emphasizing continuous feedback, objective setting, and coaching.

  • Addressing performance gaps early with respect, clarity, and HR partnership prevents negative impacts on teams and individuals.

  • Earning a seat at the decision-making table requires demonstrating the value of customer experience insights toward driving business outcomes.

Notable Quotes

"The journey at MasterCard has been about articulating digital transformation and design as a business imperative."

"Consumers are clamoring to have payment capability embedded in all their devices, from phones to rings."

"You don’t just get a seat at the table, you earn it by championing good customer experiences and rallying teams."

"Hiring isn’t easy, but don’t spam LinkedIn; build authentic conversations and engagement with your design community."

"How many people here actually know how their company makes money? 100% of us should understand that."

"Performance management is really the employee experience, not just a yearly review process."

"If you wait too long to address performance problems, it really hurts the rest of the team and the employee."

"In large enterprises, you have to get your minimum viable product out early and then build it up over time."

"Inviting lawyers and compliance teams to usability testing quickly changes the conversation around what’s possible."

"Leadership alignment is the first layer of the cake; without it, you have to negotiate and influence heavily."

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