The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ve written a few times recently about the importance of breaking free from the straitjacket of our increasingly specialized world, and adopting a more generalist approach to skills development. One of the core benefits from this approach is that it allows us to be more innovative. Driving innovation. Creating impact.

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Innovation Early Adopters Technology Constraint 97

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

The researchers assessed a representative sample of manufacturing plants in the United States in 2010 and 2015, with a survey asking them about their use of predictive analytics, their management practices, the use of data in their decision-making, and the general design of their production process. Strong returns.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. It really is an innovative UX. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing.

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Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

So the best would be to set a higher price first and then get all the early adopters to get in the game. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) What is remembered is the decrease from $5 to $3 – sounds like a bargain. In case of new offerings like iPhone and Kindle , there is no precedence.

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Price Licensing Newsletter Business Model 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Because early adopters are used to products that break. They mostly don't care about being able to step back from the brink — that's the price they pay for being early adopters. The feature?

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010. The best-known example of the threshold model at work is the diffusion of innovations model developed by Everett Rogers , in which a small group of innovators gets hold of an idea and indoctrinates a somewhat more reluctant group of early adopters to form local majorities.

Leadership 15

Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15