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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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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. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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

Harvard Business Review

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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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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