Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Businesses (and in some cases entire industries) – not so much. They invent new industries: Did you know revenues in the App industry are expected to exceed $25 billion this year? It’s a different world.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Despite the significant research in the field and early adoption of specific tech like AI tools productivity, AI use is not as accessible for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Prior industry experience is very important for entrepreneurs targeting some markets, but less important for other markets. If you launch a beverage brand or a fashion apparel company, industry experience is super valuable.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Sees years ahead, understands how the future will build on present realities.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Sees years ahead, understands how the future will build on present realities.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Sees years ahead, understands how the future will build on present realities.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You’re not going to have the opportunity to respond, and you will be crushed and maybe crushed very quickly, depending on what industry you’re in and what other kinds of natural models there are that slow things down or speed things up in that industry. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: You’ve advised global CEOs and leadership teams across various industries. I’ve had the honor and privilege of spending two decades working with early adopters of the future. Can you share an instance where your insights or recommendations led to a transformative change within an organization?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

And yet for all the hype, most industries have still not come close to realizing the full potential of data and analytics. Lurking behind these numbers are glaring disparities in performance between a few firms at the cutting edge and the average company in any given industry. Those disruptors are right around the corner.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” In other words, managing the behaviors—and misbehaviors—of your innovation’s early adopters/lead user community may determine success far more effectively than managing its initial features and flaws.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

In the chart below, one can see this particular organization’s happiness trend is around the overall benchmark and industry average. Founders should set expectations with their early employees that these changes are a natural part of the firm’s success. However, the sales function’s happiness is markedly lower.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

He suggests six further measures that would help, including a cash grant to support early adopters of the lifelong loan entitlement and reforming the Apprenticeship Levy scheme. Commentators from a number of industries – from motor retail to media planning – have shared views on this important subject.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The repercussions span industries and regions. We focus on five key verticals where the IoT will be tested first: Connected Wearable Devices, Connected Cars, Connected Homes, Connected Cities, and the Industrial Internet. Within the vast Industrials sector, the IoT represents a structural change akin to the industrial revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” 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. Our products work with apps or without apps.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

“Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. The NTRS data also shows on-demand services have already moved beyond early adopters and are gaining traction among mainstream consumers who require that platforms be user-friendly and safe.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Glassdoor has been consistently tracking the ChatGPT adoption rates ever since the AI came out and their numbers indicate that the use of the AI tool has gone up from 27 percent among the early adopters to 62 percent of professionals as of November. Regardless of industry, ChatGPT is finding room for itself in many a career.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

People are commonly referred to as ‘buyers,’ ‘shoppers,’ ‘payers,’ ‘non-responders,’ ‘early adopters,’ and ‘eyeballs.’ The systemic nature of marketing strategy depersonalizes their audience by using language that groups customers into segments and tar¬gets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Those insights came from the research Adobe had done to develop the platform, as well as the data the platform was already generating from early adopters. You may not have heard of the company, but it’s a highly profitable global contractor in the notoriously difficult construction industry. Retailers were all ears.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. For example: As an early adopter of advanced analytics, the securities industry is now defined by automated, algorithm-centric trading and artificial intelligence-based advisors that outperform professional money managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

By examining key industrial segments (rides and rooms) and geographies (early-adopters in San Francisco), I found a substantial rise in collaborative economy “gigs” between 2009 (when uptake began) and 2013 (the latest year data are available). AirBnB) industries. Uber) and traveler lodging (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 Digital capabilities come before AI.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

The first is around industries that we think will go through a big change in “cognitive” [natural language] computing, such as financial services and healthcare. The second is where we see similar patterns across industries, such as how people discover and engage with organizations and how organizations make different kinds of decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The irony of this so-called “Golden Age of Television” is that in the corporate corridors of the TV industry, many are still searching for the pot of gold at the end of this programming rainbow – in other words, we’re still looking for the sustaining financial model that will secure the future of the medium.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Observing early adopters, we’ve found that automated process change comes in three main flavors: self-adapting, self-repairing, or a combination of the two.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

While the theory had been applied and tested in several industries, it hadn’t been applied to gaming firms. The companies in the online business that were early adopters of big data — Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so forth — had so much clickstream data available that no one needed hunches any more, correct?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

trillion, it’s clear why the battle to recruit from this scarce group has become the industry’s defining challenge. At the moment, AI is more of an open frontier than an industry-friendly space. There is a vast competitive advantage that comes from owning these solutions for your industry. trillion and $5.8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As always with technology adoption, there is an S-curve, already being scribbled by early adopters; when the inflection point is reached, expect sudden acceleration. So early preparation is needed. Start early to shift the leadership mindset. Lessons from automakers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

It's relatively open, with a huge under-served population, and the media industry is large, with TV sets in 138 million households and total newspaper circulation exceeding 300 million. Nevertheless, distribution is a challenge worth taking on because India is a unique market, even for traditional media such as print and television.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Based on my consulting experience, many industries have standard attractiveness segmentation schemes, segment A, B, C. A few years ago a European leader in the consumer electronics industry was looking for new growth opportunities. Its marketing budget was mainly focused on affluent people who liked being early adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. Professional sports—and even the college ranks!—have

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste. It's also a sizable business for 3M. But there are signs of a feistier attitude brewing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

To become the new normal, a technology has to make it beyond the early adopters – typically 10 to 15% of retail shoppers – and appeal to the less tech-savvy majority. One reason is that new tools often don’t save the retailer enough or generate sufficient new revenue to cover their cost.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

In 2005, John Antioco was the eminently successful CEO of Blockbuster, the 800-pound gorilla of the video rental industry. Having done extensive research into how sanitary conditions could limit infections, he instituted a strict regime of hand washing and virtually eliminated the childbed fever that was endemic at the time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

How it will impact business, industry, and society. P&G’s staff of analysts and data scientists is somewhat smaller (several hundred or so), but well over the average for firms in its industry. We’ve both followed these companies for a long time—dating back to their early work with expert systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic boredom is illustrated in Clayton Christensen’s famous work on the disk-drive industry. Certain project leaders at IBM started an initiative to build a community of web fans, i.e. early adopters of the web, that would subsequently transform the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

The lessons learned from these early adopters have wide relevance for all investors in capital markets who want to increase their returns by quantifying the market value of leadership. As such, the LCP role has significant implications for HR’s next agenda across industries and geographies.

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