Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

As I found, the key question an entrepreneur wishing to launch a new periodical must ask is: Why would a hawker want to lock up his scarce capital in my product? During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. Even in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. And so the reengineering movement was born.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters. As a free-standing enterprise operating under its own brand, FirstBuild is decidedly not another attempt to transform a traditional company’s corporate culture. ” You can’t. Separation is the key.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

To estimate on-demand spending, respondents were queried about whether they purchased on-demand products and services in a monthly period, the categories of the purchases, and the amount spent. “Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

So when the messaging service WhatsApp entered the market, in 2009 , allowing users to send messages to anyone for free and regardless of their mobile carrier, people gravitated toward the platform. WhatsApp was originally marketed as an app with one purpose: messaging. Customer service. Provide a service.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. In many cases, the culprit is a gap between launching a few analytics experiments and embedding these insights into the operating model of the larger organization.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. When you consider that the annual market value predictions for AI techniques range between $3.5 In a knowledge-based economy, research becomes the means of production. trillion and $5.8

How To 8

How To Technology Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

That alone will add what I estimate to be a one-third productivity tax on the newly entered workforce — because workers have to hunt for information, applications inhibit collaboration, and legal requirements prevent business innovation. IT and business leaders need to work together and operate in parallel. The Bottom Line.

Technology 15

Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies. Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

To many bystanders, the dichotomy of watching the greatest number of big-budget quality productions being created at the very same time as pundits prognosticate the death of cable, satellite, and broadcast networks makes the off-screen drama as compelling as anything happening on-screen.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The Future of Operations. No underlying systems programming logic is touched.

Case Study 8

Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Scheduled before the massive annual CES gathering, it's a powwow for bloggers and other social media enthusiasts, early adopters who are quick to jump on board the next great thing. At the New Media Expo, I also interviewed Nick Harris, head of digital marketing for Benjamin Moore.

Media 8

Media First-mover Advantage Early Adopters ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Both are addressing cognitive applications that benefit customers and bring operational business value to their own organizations. We’ve both followed these companies for a long time—dating back to their early work with expert systems. Address applications that benefit you and the customer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Organized learning.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

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

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system. Creating the Venture Client Model.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Second, employers “in-source” accountability for health care services to Human Resources as a “benefit” rather than a service to be procured to maintain the health, well-being, satisfaction, and productivity of their workforce. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Yesterday, Amazon unveiled the new product it had worked us up into a fever pitch to see. The smartphone market is dominated by essentially two offerings, Apple phones with the iOS operating system and Samsung/HTC/other phones running on Android OS. Was the launch just as innovative as the product?

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Public Relations Video Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It is hard to think of a single case. Changing the System.

TBL 9

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more. Arria has found that the process changes can increase knowledge workers’ productivity by 25%. Market monitoring.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Company Root Cause Analysis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Early adopters could benefit considerably. Adopting blockchain would enable companies to rapidly add and maintain loyalty partnerships without adding complexity to their programs. IBM, for example, is partnering with startup Loyyal to develop blockchain infrastructure for loyalty and rewards programs.

Loyalty 10

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

New product development is traditionally approached by researching and developing new products in laboratories, take prototypes to customers for their reactions, and then go to production. Customers, instead of engineers or managers, make decisions on product designs in an ongoing dialogue. Decision making Operations'

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8