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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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Three reasons pms need an iphone

Lead on Purpose

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. 9 Responses Stewart Rogers , on July 31, 2009 at 5:14 am said: For national pride I am still a Blackberry guy.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

After a series of meetings with Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Apple, and Amazon, we decided to develop our own IoT software and hired the people who could help us do it. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. Ask yourself these questions first.

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To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority

Harvard Business Review

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. Eventually, a cascading effect ensues.

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Guest Post: Change Management Models

Change Starts Here

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Did the early adopters move through the Kubler-Ross change curve faster? Or start earlier?

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Increase Your Company's Productivity With Social Media

Harvard Business Review

He became an early adopter of social computing tools to communicate with employees, and in the process became a role model for adoption among his senior executive team, as well as the employee population. Senior executives studied the early adopters and tracked adoption rates in monthly meetings.

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