Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. They could imagine a new world. Storytelling helps you build a tribe.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

If HR can take ownership of these social tools then they instantly become central to things like the culture of the organisation , the way people work , innovation , collaboration , and much more. Of course, to do this properly will require a change of mindset from HR as well. You have to walk before you can run.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But does it also risk being innovatively insulting, as well? Of course, people should always be respectful—“Golden Rule” and all that. But a larger global innovation insight here demands top management attention. Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.”

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

We caught up with three of them – Keji Moses , Daniel Chapman and Folashade Bakare – who started their courses in September. We will of course continue to provide in-depth analysis of the latest changes and developments in management thinking. We hope you’ll enjoy the new approach – we’d love your feedback!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. It is clear that the high cost and complexity of traditional drip irrigation has limited its adoption, especially among the vast majority of the world's 600 million small-plot farmers. So how to reduce these risks and accelerate early adoption?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure. Are they there primarily to learn more about the host's innovation roadmap and strategic aspirations?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Of course, identifying Moneyball-like metrics and boosting individual performance remains vital. Of course, the MLB, NBA, NFL and FIFA are hardly perfect analogues to either gigantic global enterprises or Silicon Valley start-ups. Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. This is, of course, hardly a new point. Its marketing budget was mainly focused on affluent people who liked being early adopters. A few years ago a European leader in the consumer electronics industry was looking for new growth opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Now of course, I pretend Twitter struck me as an irresistibly good idea the first time I heard it and that I was an early champion. I have forgotten and concealed the early days, the days in which I had no clue. Whatever our first reaction, we now like to pretend we were early adopters and enthusiasts. Acceptance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Distribution barriers are not unique to India, of course. In the US, innovative companies can bypass delivery problems by working directly with large consumer-facing hubs such as Wal-Mart (old), Amazon (new), or iTunes (new, new), which allows them to quickly and efficiently reach early adopters. Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn''t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn''t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren''t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But a failure of this test wouldn’t necessarily mean that Dropbox wouldn’t work — it could mean that the quality threshold was higher than expected, or that Digg users weren’t ideal early adopters, or that some other news event had distracted users from watching or sharing the video. Learning from MVPs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Both American Express and P&G are companies that have explored artificial intelligence over the years, and while the technology may have changed, the established yet innovative approaches that these firms take to incorporating new technologies and capabilities continues to evolve. Do most of the work yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you want to be the kind of nimble business that can make the most of successive waves of tech innovation, you need human beings who can adapt to change. The more people associate technology with fun and not just with expense reports and client presentations, the more they’ll be able to embrace successive waves of tech innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

And, while this should, of course, be accompanied by constructive, privately delivered criticism , various studies and articles, including this recent HBR piece , have touted the benefits of positive reinforcement. Another company might choose to emphasize fiscal responsibility, collaboration, or innovation. Embrace new technology.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I booked myself onto a course. The ADKAR® change management course by Prosci. The Prosci model: The course was great and I found it really helpful. Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. At its core is a clever model; ADKAR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. Of course, the $73 is just an average over nearly one billion active users. Related Video. Whiteboard Session: How Does Blockchain Work?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The report notes: “where regulatory responses to the addition of AI threaten to increase the cost of compliance, or slow the development or adoption of beneficial innovations, policymakers should consider how those responses could be adjusted…” But regulation can help too, as the administration recognizes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Many of us still run this way, of course, but for how much longer? Benjamin Franklin was an early adopter, though his self-tracking experiments grabbed fewer headlines than his apocryphal kite-flying ones. But they will be used for "softer" disciplines too, like innovation and creativity. That''s a great number.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. You can see a strong precedent for this in the open source software movement, which didn''t go mainstream until its early adopters progressed through the ranks. How could this be?, The Digital CMO.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

And then of course, aligning to trends, aligning to the big future that you’re trying to bring about, that you’re committed to. It’s all about team collaboration and how Edison taught people collaboration and innovation. How did the people do innovation using some of his techniques. This is right up your alley.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Of course, expectations were high. Was the launch just as innovative as the product? Of course a photo of the phone was leaked —but the glimpse it afforded of multiple cameras at each end of the device only stoked more interest in the potential for 3D capabilities. Did it accomplish its goals?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Senior executives studied the early adopters and tracked adoption rates in monthly meetings. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This spread of risk, of course, also prevented a merchant from absconding with his ship’s goods and never reuniting with the other traders; he’d have too much to lose. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But of course, every single thing almost never goes perfectly. As a result, it's extremely difficult to sell innovation to this consumer. A promise from a marketer is meaningless, because the marketer isn't part of the town, the marketer will move away, the marketer is, of course, a liar. It makes life itself an emergency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Early adopters could benefit considerably. Of course, the introduction of one or more blockchain platforms unifying multiple loyalty programs could pose a number of risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

“You don’t want to send people who are tech-savvy on a course because that’s a waste of time,” he says. ” “It’s most important not that early adopters adopt, but that influencers adopt,” Mankins emphasizes. “Getting those folks on board early is critical.”

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Over the course of 2010, the work did gain momentum, and we were joined by many of our readers from around the world who decided to make this resolution their own. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Those early adopters of technology – let’s call them entrepreneurs, or maybe even founders – helped drive overall economic vitality. The authors hypothesize that these early adopters used their newly acquired knowledge to build technologically based businesses that drove regional prosperity. .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. This expansion shows how social networking systems have begun to cross over from the consumer world to corporations to drive innovation.

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