CEO Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

I often see products that sell lots in the first few week - this is normal early adopter. Largely depending on how well the market accepts the product. The device looks like a winner - but will it be? I think the next 90 days will tell. Then the sales either grow exponentially or fizzle. It will be interesting.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth of just 0.3%

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. The results were then cross-referenced with data, including production inputs and outputs for the firm. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Strong returns.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2021

The failures underscore the complexities of building and running a productive AI and ML program. Successful AI/ML implementation has clear benefits for early adopters — As organisations look to the future, IT and operations are the leading areas where they plan on adding AI and ML capabilities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2021

Early adopters of the internet will remember just how odd our early engagements with the web were. Often, as an early adopter, you would type in a URL from a piece of paper you’d scrawled it upon, and this would take you to a website with a background that made overly heavy use of graphics.

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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. And, they do so with a minimum of wasted effort – hence the term, Minimum Viable Product.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ageless startups are organized to help people contribute their ideas and skills to markets and communities they are passionate about. Communities and markets that people love and respect will be under significant pressure to reinvent themselves. What marketing techniques are important to consider?

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LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

During an organization’s start-up days, it’s much easier to strike up conversations with the market since there’s not much to lose. With only a few customers in the early stage of the game, any open-ended conversation with someone interested in what we’re doing is welcomed with enthusiasm. the fear of rejection).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

checklist of questions is a powerful tool for looking at your existing product/service lines and coming up with new variations. What new product or service could you offer to fight back against your deep pocketed competitors? P = Put to Other Uses – use the restaurant as a market research center. The S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. The iPhone platform is the best for mobile applications.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

One leader of a division in a big multinational told me that after working with us and balancing his all-male team, performance, productivity and engagement all went up dramatically. Leaders readily understood the need to learn the language and culture of new markets, from China and India to Brazil.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

It’s a narrative that has helped to shape both how millennials are marketed to but also how they’re treated in the workplace, but is the narrative justified? As future home owners and potential smart-home customers, younger generations are a crucial market. The rise of surveillance capitalism. Smart homes. “As

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. 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.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. ’ What is too often lost is the nuance – human. The Powerful Role of Trust.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. Pilot customers are enthusiastic, but broader adoption is slow even with customer support and training. One of GE’s mantras is therefore “ mindshare before market share.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD have written a whole book about Blue Ocean Strategy as they call it, in which successful companies innovate their value propositions to attract customers who have never engaged with their type of product or service before.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn''t necessarily invalidate it. The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In creating a minimum viable product , entrepreneurs choose between experiments that can validate or invalidate their assumptions about a business model. If your MVP is a worse product than your imagined final version, success validates your idea; failure, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily invalidate it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. A year ago, Google announced an "undo" feature for its Gmail product, allowing you to, for a few seconds anyway, abort an email that you just sent. The feature?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations. Early adopters are typically younger, more willing to take risks, more eager to try new things, more affluent, and substantially less numerous.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions? They encourage viral marketing through early adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters. As a community, FirstBuild pursues open source innovation, in contrast with the proprietary IP pursued by GE Appliances and other large consumer product companies. ” You can’t. Should they?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. Sometimes, by the time changes were in place, the market had already moved. In our study of more than 30 pilots in early-adopter companies, we found five common business processes improved by machine-reengineering.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. If you think you can sell a partner by merely "demoing" your wonderful product you have not grasped this essential point. This means priming the pump through joint sales calls and other marketing efforts. Ask questions. Don''t figure it out.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

The Kickstarter ecosystem brings together makers, backers, and early adopters as well as community building experts, videographers, and storytellers. It is a barn-raising model that has enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals and teams to create and launch new products in the span of a few years.

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